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Therapeutic potential and cardiovascular risks of medical cannabis
A recent study highlights concerns regarding the potential cardiovascular risks associated with using medical cannabis. A cause for alarm?
#262 – AMA #49: Heart rate recovery, strength training, rucking, kidney function, and brain health
“[Heart rate recovery] is one of the metrics that we should care about just as we care about VO2 max and just as we care about resting heart rate.” —Peter Attia
#258 – AMA #48: Blood pressure—how to measure, manage, and treat high blood pressure
“If you care about your brain, if you care about your heart and if you care about your kidneys, you need low blood pressure. I think we can say that as confidently as we can say almost anything in medicine.” —Peter Attia
#155 – Chris Sonnenday, M.D.: The history, challenges, and gift of organ transplantation
“Knowing that their loved one’s organs live on in another individual and saved their life is the only good thing about what was otherwise the worst day of their lives … I think it’s important for people to hear that it can be a transformative gift.” — Chris Sonnenday
#59 – Jason Fung, M.D.: Fasting as a potent antidote to obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and the many symptoms of metabolic illness
“We think of all these responses, obesity, insulin resistance, and the beta cell failure, as pathologic. They’re actually protective. . .Your body is actually trying to protect itself against the root cause of the problem which is too much insulin, too much glucose.” — Jason Fung