Thursday, February 16th, 2012
I was in line at the bagle shop last Sunday morning after church when a business executive in line ahead of me stopped to talk. “You were right,” he told me, “when you said in your Bulletproof talk that guys don’t take care of their health. I know it because I’m one of them.” The executive explained that
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Thursday, February 9th, 2012
When I give my presentation “Bulletproof: The Men’s Healthcare Myth,” one of the most common surprised reactions from my audiences comes at the point when I discuss the dangers of high blood pressure. High blood pressure alone, I explain, can cause a stroke or even an aortic dissection like the one that nearly took my life
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Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
‘There is no education like adversity.’ — Benjamin Disraeli Part of being a Bulletproof guy — especially one like me who this weekend enters his sixth decade of life — is overcoming adversity. Having the tables turned on you mid-game by a near fatal health crisis, as I did, can teach you a lot about yourself.
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012
It’s still early in my training plan to walk a faster time in my favorite road race — the Bellin 10-K in June. But I’ve already walked into a familiar foe . . .an achy twinge in my lower back. If you, too, are getting intot the swing of mid-winter workouts and feel that twinge,
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012
Let’s hear it for Namaste. As any yoga practitioner — or would-be practitioner like me — knows, the word “Namaste” is spoken at the end of a yoga session and is accompanied by a slight bow affirming that “the light in me honors the light in you.” I began dabbling in ocassional yoga some yeara
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Thursday, January 12th, 2012
‘Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors and let each new year find you a better man.’ – Benjamin Franklin New Year’s resolutions are like running a marathon. If you don’t have a course map, then it’s unlikely you’ll have much success reaching the finish line. Whether it’s getting in shape, losing
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
Here’s a Happy New Year’s scoop that every Bulletproof guy should shout from the rooftops: Fit trumps fat! Haven’t we heard for years that diet and weight loss were the prerequisites for guys hoping to lead a healthier life? New findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association offered a decidedly different conclusion about
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Thursday, December 22nd, 2011
My thanks to all Bulletproof guys and their families and friends who visited the Bulletproof site or were among my audiences at Bulletproof men’s health presentations this year. Merry Christmas, Happy Hanuka and Happy New Year to all. See you again on the first Thursday in 2012 when the Bulletproof blog returns for the New Year.
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Thursday, December 15th, 2011
Think of them as Christmas coronaries. Or Happy Hanuka heart attacks. Cardiac crises are some of the least anticipated events associated with the holiday season. Yet, doctors say that the Yuletide no only marks a spike in cardiac events but the holidays may also serve as inadvertent triggers to some heart-related medical problems. Medical researchers discovered approximately
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Thursday, December 8th, 2011
I had a thing about going to the dentist’s office long before I cringed through scenes in the film “Marathon Man” during which escaped Nazi prison camp dentist Lawrence Olivier tortured Dustin Hoffman by drilling into the root nerves in his teeth. Thinking about that scene still gives me the creeps. That’s probably because when
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