June 2025 Cold vs Hot: Which Post-Exercise Bath Works Best? We’ve all seen pictures of athletes waist-deep in an ice bath that purportedly reduces inflammation and allows for faster recovery from demanding workouts. And gasped. Whereas hot baths were deemed the gold standard of achey joints – especially of the lower extremities and back –Read More
Type 2 Diabetes
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Feb 06, 2015
Diabetes, Puberty and Inflammation: Why Diet and Exercise is Medicine
Two articles bring to the forefront, again, what research is homing in on: that inflammation wreaks havoc beyond swelling, redness, and pain. The first, on how inflammation contributes to diabetes – and, by the way, how diabetes feeds into inflammation – comes from Health News Canal: Here we learn of an apparent linkage of bodyRead More
Aug 17, 2010
Type 2 Diabetes Drugs and Bone Breaks
There are many drugs for almost any disease, but none are risk free. Type 2 diabetes (t2d) is a disease prevalent in the aging populations of industrial/developed nations largely due to lifestyle patterns of excess food intake and sedentary behaviors. Some of the common drugs used to manage this disease have been shown to increaseRead More