Should we drink our first cup of coffee as soon as we get out of bed? The answer, according to caffeine experts consulted by the New York Times, is the same answer we often get from other experts in other areas: it depends– in this case on our genetics. Caffeine […]

Are we really never to old to build muscle? That’s the thesis presented by Gretchen Reynolds in a recent article in The Washington Post. Reynolds bases her thesis on a study of resistance exercise that found that even people in their 80s and 90s showed significant gains after starting to lift weights […]

Aside from the risk that pickleball will steal your desire to do anything other than play more pickleball, there are a few physically painful outcomes that could influence your performance of the court. ScubbingIn, a publication of BaylorScott&White medical care, lists the pickleball injuries most often seen in their orthopedic […]

You’ve heard the hype. You may have taken your hopes to the seafood counter and spent ten bucks on a half dozen oysters. You may have even been convinced that they worked, and maybe they did. Who knows? Actually, no one knows, but the scientific evidence supporting the assertion that […]

First, the bad news: the handy excuse that “it’s too late to build muscle” is no longer applicable for elders who would prefer to avoid weight lifting. According to an article in the Washington Post, a study of resistance exercise and the elderly found that even people in their 80s and 90s […]

Ok, the study is a few years old, from 2014 actually, but there’s no reason the findings shouldn’t hold up. As reported in the New York Times, the findings of Duck-chul Lee, a professor of physical activity epidemiology at Iowa State University, show that regular runners — including those jogging […]

Sure, eight hours of sleep is a wonderful goal, but one that is not always attainable. The good news is that eight hours may not be that important, or at least not as important as going to bed and waking up at the same time most nights. “Regularity” is the […]

Sorry, aging hipsters, smoking pot doesn’t necessarily make you less anxious. In fact, it often does the opposite. The Wall Street Journal reports on the paucity of credible research that supports the anxiety relief theory and on a couple of recent studies that suggest that pot makes us more anxious, […]

If your teeth could talk, they’d tell you what they would like you to eat, and not to eat. There’s the obvious stuff like sugary drinks and, OK, sugary anything, and there are some less obvious culprits, like alcoholic beverages, which can inhibit salivation, a natural tooth cleansing ingredient. The […]

Sure, it sounds questionable, but lifting weights is good for your skin. That’s the verdict of a recent study published in Scientific Reports and nicely explained by Gretchen Reynolds in the Washington Post. Actually, the study found that both aerobic exercise and weight training improved facial skin and tissue, but resistance […]