Timing, we learn again, is everything. A new study, using data from more than 6,400 subjects who ranged in age from 8 days to 95 years, suggests that much of what we knew about the natural changes of our metabolism is wrong. Then what’s right? The New York Times reports […]
Author: Art Jahnke
Exercise Improves Immunity Provided by Vaccines
SportsGeezer readers will probably not be surprised to learn that exercise, in general, boosts our response to vaccinations. Still, they may be interested in a New York Times report on two recent studies that suggest that intense training amplifies our vaccine response. In one study, conducted in Germany, researchers compared […]
Kindness Can Relieve Pandemic Anxiety
The COVID-19 pandemic appears to have unearthed a raft of things to worry about, and relatively few of them are directly related to the pandemic. In most venues, indoors or outdoors, anxiety is more abundant than any viral matter. What to do? Judson Brewer, a psychiatrist and the author of […]
Don’t Let the Pandemic Keep You Down
Get up, get out, and start moving, or incur an increased or ill health or early death. So say health experts writing in a special issue of the British Journal of Sports Medicine, which describes the World Health Organization’s new guidelines on physical activity and sedentary behavior. The Washington Post reports on the advice, which […]
Cold Is Good. Really
Working out at any temperature is good, but working out when it’s cold outside (or inside) is better. That, as reported in the Wall Street Journal, is the opinion of Christopher Minson, a physiology professor at the University of Oregon, who studies the body’s response to extreme environments and works […]
Post Covid Exercise
Let’s say you’ve had Covid, and let’s say you feel pretty good, or at least good enough start exercising. Three words of advice: Don’t push it. Writing in the New York Times, Dr. Jordan Metzl, a sports medicine specialist at New York’s Hospital for Special Surgery, reports seeing several patients […]
How To Exercise with a Mask
Health experts at the Mayo Clinic have some advice for people who wear a mask while exercising: don’t go crazy. They recommend low to moderate intensity training, the kind of training that allows you to breathe well enough that your body can regulate its temperature. What kind of mask is […]
What Exercise Does to Your Brain, Maybe
Gretchen Reynolds, estimable health writer for the New York Times, reports on some interesting research that suggests that exercise can make us a little sharper, especially if we are mice. The research, conducted largely at the University of California, San Francisco, infused blood from mice that exercised regularly into mice […]
For Heart and Brain Health, Eat More Capers
Chicken piccata is good for you, at least if it’s covered with enough capers. That’s the take home lesson from the University of California’s Irvine School of Medicine, where researchers have discovered that a compound named quercetin, commonly consumed when eating capers, can regulate proteins required for bodily processes such […]
Can Exercise Fend Off COVID-19?
Has there ever been a time when more people were trying to get in shape? Fast? COVID-19, which is particularly cruel to people who are obese, is a powerful motivator. But can exercise really protect us from the virus’s worst outcomes? The answer, according to the New York Times, is […]