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"exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention ever known:

a minipost - an important podcast episode that could have a large impact on your health

 

Eric Topol does cardiology and genomics at Scripps.  He's also an excellent communicators and was one of a half dozen voices during the pandemic offering translations of the rapidly evolving results from research and practice into language the general public can understand   He has interests that go beyond those areas an recently hosted Euan Ashley of Stanford on his podcast.  The title is provocative:  Exercise may be the single most potent medical intervention known. (audio and transcripts with links)  highly recommended.  The amount of sexual dimorphism in response is remarkable - but it's all heathly.

A couple of nits - noting I'm far from being an expert, but have read a fair amount in this area.. Ashley mentions the one minute five minute rule.  My understanding nothing supports this as a quantitative statement, but the qualitative direction is probably right.  Also Ashley mentions a company he's involved in that tries to optimize exercise for professional and serious amateur athletes. At the professional level much of this work is noise at this point - particularly the "AI" approach (and and LLM is clearly not the path), at the serious amateur level it may well be useful as anything is useful even though it may not be optimal. Research from the study Ashley talks about could lead to big improvements in this area.

What the podcast highlights is the release of data and some results  from a large body of research.  The research solidly confirms earlier work that points to how important exercise is as a medicine.

Here's the link to the data release site.  It has additional information - some aimed at the general public.

 

 

 

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Om has mentioned several - often a fine pen, ink and paper.  My sister's creative artwork often starts with the right paper and pencils. 

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I was a hoarder in the day. Thankfully the new chalk is just as good