The skeptical cardiologist has become an unbridled pickleball enthusiast in the last year. Since my teens, I’ve had a fondness for all activities that involve whacking a moving ball with
I want to make the case today that one’s cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) should be considered a “vital sign”: akin to those measures of bodily function; temperature, blood pressure, heart rate,
It’s been a year since I turned 69, walked into the Magdalena Ecke YMCA and began a program called EGYM which promised to accurately measure and track my biological age. My post on
The skeptical cardiologist may reach the ripe old age of sixty-nine years shortly. It’s not a number I’m particularly comfortable with but one in my opinion that is vastly superior
The skeptical cardiologist switched to running as his primary form of cardio exercise in 2014 after reading about a prospective longitudinal cohort study at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, Texas,
The skeptical cardiologist recently stumbled across an extensive catalog which lists various activities that humans engage in along with an estimate of how much energy is consumed performing those activities.
This is an update of a post first written in 2016. As we approach New Years Day 2021 undoubtedly many of you will be resolving to begin or expand your
Previously, the skeptical cardiologist answered the question “Why Did I Go Into Atrial fibrillation?” An equally important question is “how can I reduce the chances that I have more spells
Anthony C. Pearson M.D., F.A.C.C. is a cardiologist, musician, writer and a regular columnist at MedPage Today