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Bulletproof ‘Game Brain’

Thursday, May 17th, 2012

Here’s a top-of-mind question for any Bulletproof guy who’s the father or grandfather of a young competitor: Are successful athletes smarter than the rest of us? Yes, according to Swedish researchers who studied executive brain functioning among elite soccer players. Those athletes have the rest of us beaten when it comes to a specific mental talent —

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Bulletproof Way of Yoga, Tai Chi

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

Though my Downward Facing Dog is a mere puny puppy . . . and my Sun Salutation rarely glows . . . yoga poses remain embedded in my stretching routine before and after long walks preparing for the 10-kilometer Bellin Run in early June. As a survivor of aortic dissection and stroke, I am on

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Aging Brain – Use It or Lose It

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

Are you any good at Sudoku? Are you playing WordsWithFriends on your Ipad? I’m asking because Bulletproof guys, particularly aging ones, can do their brains a big favor simply by keeping their gray matter’s synapses popping. Put it this way . . . it’s a “use it or lose it” proposition when it comes to

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Mind, Body, Heart Health (Part 2)

Thursday, April 12th, 2012

‘Mens sana in corpore sano.’ — Latin maxim meaning: ‘Sound mind in a sound body.’ For many guys, de-stressing their lives and getting more exercise go hand in hand. That’s because regular exercise triggers the release of endorphins in a guy’s bloodstream. Endorphins are the body’s “feel good” hormones (sometimes referred to as the body’s “natural

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Beat a Cold – Stay Active

Thursday, March 8th, 2012

Physical activity in the late winter/early spring is a good way for guys to ward off the common cold. That’s a key finding in recent medical literature showing that regular exercise jump-starts the body’s immune system, which has the positive effect of reducing the number of colds anyone contracts. The Journal of Medicine reported that

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Healthy, Smoke Free Brains

Thursday, March 1st, 2012

Thanks to decades of health information about the harmful effects of cigarette smoking, it’d be hard for any guy — even a bulletproof one — to say that he doesn’t know the risks of lighting up or the potential for damage to his heart and lungs. Now comes new medical research published in the Archive of General Psychiatry

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Health First, Business Second

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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Adversity’s Silver Lining

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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Stretch, Squat, Strengthen

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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The Namaste Effect

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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