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REAL-News --August-20222Apr 05

April 5, 2022 By Irv Rubenstein

REAL News – April 2022

April 2022 Why Postmenopausal Women Have Higher Exercise BP  The sympathetic nervous system is responsible for the “fight or flight” response that leads to elevated heart rates (HR) and blood pressures (BP.) Interestingly, postmenopausal women tend toward a higher BP response to exercise than younger women. This “exaggerated exercise-induced BP response” is thought to increaseRead More

Filed Under: Real News Tagged With: arthritis, brain health, Exercise, hormone replacement, postmenopausal blood pressure, sphygmomanometry, vitamin D

Mar 22, 2017

March 22, 2017 By Irv Rubenstein

Aquatics and Arthritis Don’t Mix

I thought that headline would get you. The story behind it, though, is quite encouraging. A Finish study followed several women with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee for 16 months – a long term study by comparison to most in the exercise world. It had some of the postmenopausal women do thrice weekly one-hour sessionsRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: aquatics, arthritis, Exercise, Knees, osteoarthritis

ooh ooh ooh ooh, staying alive.....Jun 07

June 7, 2011 By Irv Rubenstein

ooh ooh ooh ooh, staying alive…..

A norwegian study reports that a single measure of fitness – your aerobic capacity, as measured by ml/kg/min of O2 your body can use during hi intensity exercise (max VO2) – can provide you and your doc a measure of heart risk. They tested 5000 norwegians of all adult ages and determined that, if yourRead More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: arthritis, Heart Health, hiking, VO2

Oct 13, 2010

October 13, 2010 By Irv Rubenstein

Knees, Arthritis, Running: Are They Connected?

I’ve probably written on this before but this article in the ny times inspired tonite’s blog: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/10/13/phys-ed-do-marathons-wreck-your… I alert you to the concluding line: ‘There’s no strong evidence,’’ he said, that, if your knees are healthy to start with, ‘‘running a marathon will hurt them.’’ I think it’s fair to say, as I’ve long held,Read More

Filed Under: Fitness Blog Tagged With: arthritis, injuries, knee, marathons, running

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