Health Blog

Welcome to my health blog!

UNDERSTANDING OUR PHYSIOLOGY As my introductory blog entry, I welcome you to this site and I invite you to follow along as I explore how our bodies work, specifically in the realm of how we maintain good health and achieve our goals. I have been a student of health and…

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OUTLIVE book review

OUTLIVE Last Spring I was handed a new book called OUTLIVE by Dr. Peter Attia (pub. March 2023) while also being asked if I would spend a moment to review the health ideas this book presents and give my opinion. As promised in a prior blog (May 2023) I would…

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THE SPECIFICS OF MUSCULAR HEALTH

Welcome again! Apropos of an earlier blog [Nov 19, 2022 THE BENEFITS OF MUSCULAR HEALTH], I have posted a photo above that we can probably ALL relate to!! Clearly not the best head position for a long phone conversation and one that will likely lead to a stiff neck! So,…

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“NEW IN TOWN” & THINKING AHEAD

This blog is simply to highlight the 2023 issue of the MANCHESTER LIFE magazine, from Old Mill Road Media publishers in Arlington VT, that just hit the streets this month. It is distributed throughout all of Southern VT, and in this issue’s NEW IN TOWN section is a listing for…

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SPRING CLEANING!

I am cleaning my garage today!! Yesterday it was my basement, before that my closets. Yes, it is Spring Cleaning time! Changing out the old, replacing with the new, and choosing to discard some things while choosing to repair others, happily getting all ready for the next change of season….

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THE BENEFITS OF MUSCULAR HEALTH

THE BENEFITS OF MUSCULAR HEALTH — Our movement is what makes us able to have fun, to laugh, to dance, to achieve our athletic goals, to escape from danger, just to name a few. Our movement comes from a system of contraction units (muscles), attached to bone points, that can…

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A COVID STORY

A COVID STORY — I was going to use this next blog post as an introduction to a Jin Shin Jyutsu daily self-help health program, however my first covid virus experience has now come my way and I am choosing to write about my experiences with it instead.  Yes, I…

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NO PAIN NO GAIN (fact? or myth?)

“NO PAIN NO GAIN” — This phrase is often used within athletic achievement activities. In the physical aspect of working the musculo-skeletal body, e.g. in such arenas as personal training and in competitive sports, the “no pain, no gain” mind-set serves well to push human activity to new heights. In…

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