Insights from the Trail – Part 2 Continued from Part 1 3. Be consistent. Slow and steady wins the race. It’s all about the tortoise and the hare, especially with noteworthy endeavors. When reaching a fatigued state, it is…
Insights from the Trail – Part 1 There is much to learn from challenging oneself with difficult physical endeavors. I recently embarked on a 3-day backpacking trip in the Olympic National Park and had some valuable (to me, at least)…
Hydration — Critical for Life Water is vital for life. Without water, humans can survive only for days. Our bodies are even mostly water – 50-60% in women and 60-65% in men. Water content of our bodies depends on composition…
What Should I Eat? The 2 Commandments of Nutrition The world of nutrition research is quite complex, riddled with politics and emotion that get in the way of a true understanding of what foods we should be eating to achieve…
Medicine is Unnecessarily Complicated In medical school, the 2nd-year curriculum was/is structured around organ systems – cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, endocrine, etc. – with each unit taught by the respective specialist physicians. I remember well the subject-by-subject advancement through…
Fueling Your Body – Carb-loaded vs Fat-fueled Talking with a patient of mine recently who is soon to embark on a long backpacking trip reminded me of an important lesson I learned the hard way about how to fuel your…
Health Care has a Specialty Problem Ever heard someone bemoaning the fact that they have multiple doctors? It’s the sad reality of the modern health care system, relying on multiple specialists to manage specialty-specific problems in parallel with other specialists.…
It’s Time to Set a Higher Bar for Health Care When working in the hospital, I am often witness to the disappointingly low bar that has been set for metabolic health in our modern health care system. One of my…
Fasting for fat loss While many regard fasting as a difficult challenge, it has been a normal part of the human experience for millennia and is a time-honored tradition among virtually all major religions of the world. Part of the…
How Much Body Fat is Acceptable? If excess body fat is indeed a threat to our health, we should have an idea what amount of body fat is healthy or unhealthy. That sounds easy enough, but it’s not so clear.…
