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Turning 90 Next Month: How I Built My Red, White & Blue Zone for Lifelong Vitality

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Thirty-five years ago, a misdiagnosis landed me in the hospital and resulted in a colon resection that cost me a foot of my colon. That painful detour became the best thing that ever happened to my health. It introduced me to a world-renowned holistic practitioner and, several years later, to my wife — an equally respected integrative medical practitioner. What started as crisis recovery evolved into decades of immersion in functional medicine. Along the way, I discovered the Blue Zones, those remarkable regions where people routinely live past 100 with sharp minds and strong bodies.

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Endurance Exercise and Heart Health? New Data

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Endurance exercise and heart health, is there a definitive link? The idea that endurance exercise like running marathons and riding long distance bike races may be harmful rather than beneficial to the heart has been around for a very long time. In the year 490 BC, the fittest runner in Greece, Pheidippides, ran 26 miles …

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