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How Exercise Works

May 3, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Teaching Your Body Feel exhorted, cajoled, pushed and nagged into “exercise?” Most folks know it’s good for you, but so are vegetables (though not recent Romaine from Yuma.)  They just don’t really know how exercise works. Witness a recent study in Circulation, demonstrating that in people at high and low genetic risk of heart disease, relatively moderate […]

Time to Think Before You Drink

April 26, 2018 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Lots of people drink.  Most think they “don’t drink too much.”  They “only drink socially.”  Or “just a couple of drinks a few nights of the week.” But when it comes to health, how much is enough? A new study looking a national guidelines has come up with surprising results. The short answer is “less is […]

Your Angry Heart

October 29, 2016 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Type A or Type B? Anger can prove fatal to the heart, particularly when using heavy exercise to calm yourself down. To understand why, we need to turn to the strange history of A versus B – Type A and Type B personality.  People still proudly or fearfully describe themselves as “Type A or Type […]

Drug of Choice (8/13/14)

August 13, 2014 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

An Old Miracle? Simple stuff does work. One of the cheapest drugs in the world is perhaps the most single effective agent in helping populations stay alive. The way it works this magic is now recognized as completely different from past theories. The drug is aspirin.   Cardiovascular Risk For decades people throughout the world […]

The Enraged Heart (3/11/14)

March 11, 2014 by Matthew Edlund M.D.

Does Anger Kill? For thousands of years the  anecdotal answer has been yes. Rage frequently kills those enraged – and those around them.    But what happens in modern life? Therein’s a tale  involving personality, tobacco, and the changing mores of research. What’s New Now? A large meta-analysis in the European Heart Journal, put together […]

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