LIke every author of a new book, Dr. Andrew Weil is currently condemned to several weeks of book tours. One destination was Los Angeles, where L.A. Times writer Shari Roan persuaded the advocate of holistic health to answer 16 questions about aging with grace.Here’s one:Has anti-aging medicine produced some valuable […]

Having trouble bouncing back from a sports injury? Your marriage could be to blame. A new study conducted at Ohio State University suggests that marital strife can delay–up to twice as long–the time it takes to recover from injury. The Daily Mail reports that the study looked at 42 couples […]

How’s a cyclist supposed to know if he’s really getting stronger or just imagining that he is? Looking at daily speeds won’t do it, because speed is influenced by things like wind and hills. Heart rate is a fairly reliable metric, but a strong cup of coffee can skew that […]

What the difference between the holiday gift guide put together this year by Men’s Health and its correlative in Outside?  The wrapping paper. The Men’s Health feature is uncharacteristically straight,  with the category headings ("Camping Equipment", "Golf Irons", "Motorcycles and Mountain Bikes") that appear to be written more for search […]

Some people are born to shop. Some are born for other people to shop for. At this time of year, Geezer would like to remind family and friends that he falls safely into Category Number Two.  But to demonstrate that Geezer is not utterly without generosity, he offers his family […]

Geezer always suspected that this was too good to be true.  And now, just as the holidays approach, there’s this. The BBC reports on a new study from the University of Auckland that calls into question the methodology of those studies done in the 1970s and 1980s that linked a […]

Many wise people, as well as Geezer, are persuaded that it’s possible to be a bit too competitive, or, in medical  terms, pathologically competitive. Where do you fall? Are you healthy or are you nuts?  One way to find out is to read this piece in The Los Angeles Times, […]

Most people, apparently, can take the recommended daily dose of Tylenol with no worries. But many, particularly those whose livers have been compromised by viruses, medications, or alcohol, should think twice before popping any of the many pain relievers that contain acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, Excedrin, Midol Teen […]

Geezer has some doubts about the claim, by the University of Washington School of Medicine, that cardiopulmonary resuscitation, "which was mentioned in the Bible, fell out of practice until it was rediscovered in the 1950s," but whatever. Geezer is not a historian of medical practices.  CPR was definitely taught in […]

Geezer once had the misfortune to spend a day skiing with a gentleman in his mid-forties who set a vertical-feet-that-must-be-skied goal, on this day some outlandish distance that required him to bomb straight down every run and eat his frozen bologna sandwich on the lift. Driving home, he regaled Geezer […]