I have also become athletic in fifties. I am into running. Running does have an issue with overloading of joints but it can be managed by cross-training couple of times a week. Cycling, I find too risky, especially on roads. With all these mobile phone obsessed drivers out there, I…

Mark P Mattson did some of the original research on Intermittent Fasting. He has written a book on it: https://www.amazon.com/Intermittent-Fasting-Revolution-Optimizing-Performance/dp/0262046407 There are some good youtube videos from him on the topic. Mark P Mattson talk at Google about the book: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdB_-iUUtZs below is a shorter video: Why fasting bolsters brain…

I had written about good and bad stress about a year ago (https://medium.com/@health-nut/stress-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly-9d2e6f6e4573) . Nothing defines our times like stress! When reading Mark Manson’s recent article https://medium.com/@markmanson/10-cool-things-about-the-brain-and-what-it-means-for-you-792b28e486c, the point 4) about “how stress kills brain cells” caught my attention. I have been learning about stress for a while. …

My blood pressure has been about 135/90 for last five plus years. While I am an active person, I have not done anything special targeting to lower my blood pressure. Also, I do have diabetes which I have managed completely through diet and nutrition for last twelve plus years. Recently…

Hmm… is it something to write a Medium story about? Not sure… But since I have not written anything on Medium for a while. And this is currently fresh in my mind, I will do it anyway. Why? It might still be interesting to marathon wannabes who just want to…

Surprisingly there is lot to obsess about in Running for such a simple activity. For example, each feet has 26 bones, 30 joints and 100 muscles, tendons and ligaments (https://www.arthritis.org/health-wellness/about-arthritis/where-it-hurts/anatomy-of-the-foot). And of course you can obsess about each one of them. This is really impressive that just the two feet…

In Health, we typically run into scenarios where you can not tell whether a certain thing is good or not. For example, it is generally accepted that stress is bad for health. Stress in medical terms corresponds to higher level of cortisol and adrenaline(also called epinephrine) hormone in body. However…

The colony half 2021 was today. I ran it in memory of my eldest brother who passed away five years ago due to sudden heart attack. I wish he had taken better care of his health and medical system in India had not failed him. My main goal for the…

I never thought I will run with barefoot shoes. But here I am writing about my experience with barefoot shoes running over last month or so. When I ran a marathon last march, my knees were totally inflamed after the first half. So I ended up walking the second half…