Ryan Campbell

06/07/2023

I think it isn't stated often enough that each of us has the potential to find better health with simple changes implemented slowly over time. Imagine making one small daily change, and focussing on it for 60 days. One habit only for 60 days. Sounds reasonable right? Then picking the next small change for another 60 days. Imagine the total effect over 12 months. How would you feel at the end of a year? You would have 6 compounding health habits all working for you. The change can be profound. Pro tip: if you eat real food (minimally processed) and move some everyday you are 90% there.

01/17/2023

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35971745/

This research study suggests that doing cardio exercise before doing leg resistance training helps in muscle growth. Bottom line: cardio and resistance training support one another.

Factors influencing inter-individual variability of responses to resistance training (RT) remain to be fully elucidated. We have proposed the importance of capillarization in skeletal muscle for the satellite cell (SC) response to RT-induced muscle hypertrophy, and hypothesized that aerobic conditio...

09/15/2020

Dr. Benjamin Bikman pulls together the most common diseases of the modern era and explains the common thread among them all. I love it in medicine when a solution emerges that addresses multiple illnesses that on the surface seem unrelated. I believe that good health for most people can be achieved with simple concepts and basic habits. Correcting insulin resistance is one of the highest impact health goals you could focus on. A simple oral glucose tolerance test with insulin values can determine how sensitive someone is to insulin.

Why We Get Sick: The Hidden Epidemic at the Root of Most Chronic Disease―and How to Fight It

08/17/2020

The evidence continues to mount, and intuitively it makes a lot of sense too. WHEN we eat is a very important driver of health (or disease) and we should challenge our assumptions about needing 3 meals plus snacks in between every day. Our bodies were built to survive and thrive during periods without food and there are important health benefits to fasting, most of us just to give our bodies a long enough break to take advantage of this feature.

Summary of evidence for intermittent fasting concludes wide-ranging health benefits, but more research is needed on long-term and lifespan effects.