Fitness for Longevity: Body Composition And Recomposition
Body Weight And BMI Have Limitations When Striving For Longevity Health
In conventional medicine and the popular press, body weight is a health parameter that is essential for assessing our overall health. Another metric that is universally…
Revisiting Zone 2 Training: Why Is Zone 2 Good For Longevity?
The Benefits of Zone 2 Training Over High-intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
One of our recent exercise blogs focused on cardiorespiratory fitness and the concept of VO2 max and introduced the practice of high-intensity interval training (HIIT).…
Heart Rate Variability (HRV): A Pulse on Your Health
Understanding Heart Rate Variability: What is HRV?
While heart rate measures the number of heartbeats per minute, heart rate variability, or HRV, measures the fluctuation in time between each heartbeat (in milliseconds). The amount of time…
What Is VO2 Max? Why Is VO2 Max Important For Longevity?
How VO2 Max Supports Fitness For Longevity
Visit a primary care practitioner for an annual physical exam and you will have an assessment of basic health information like height, weight, and vital signs, including heart rate, blood pressure,…
What Is Zone 2 Training And Why Is It Important?
What if I offered you a pill that took your cellular age back ten to fifteen years? This pill also increases mitochondrial numbers (kind of like the number of battery chargers in our cells), increases overall available energy, improves metabolic…
Your Immune System Reboot: Diet & Lifestyle
When the coronavirus SARS-co-v2, a devastating communicable disease, descended upon the global population in December 2019, it became clear early on that there was a wide spectrum of illness, ranging from almost nothing to diarrhea, severe pneumonia,…
Polypill vs. Treadmill: Walking Your Way to Optimal Health
My grandfather used to say “Exercise? I get plenty of exercise – pushing myself back from the dinner table every night!” Of course, he walked almost daily on the Coney Island boardwalk in the middle of the winter and lived well into his…
Barbells: Do We Need Them?
It’s not enough to walk the dog. That is to say, there are several components to a well-executed exercise plan or prescription. For most of us, walking at 2-3 mph would best be categorized as an “activity of daily living” rather than exercise.One…