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Quickfire Questions and Answers

Here are 10 random questions that we got this week, along with our answers!   Is it healthy to squat past 90 degrees? Yes, squatting past 90 is pragmatic, does not cause any damage, and has been found to help prevent injury. Does cracking your knuckles cause arthritis? No, that myth has been busted. It …

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The Last Lecture – Randy Pausch

  It’s common for professors to give what’s called “the last lecture”, a talk where they imagine they are about to die and describe what they believe matters most in life. In “The Last Lecture”, by Dr. Randy Pausch, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon, he didn’t have to imagine he was dying. He …

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Enter the Zone – Barry Sears

“Enter the Zone” by Barry Sears is one of my all-time favorites, and I highly recommend it if you are interested in learning about the hormonal responses of food. Below are my personal notes.  Notes: The “Zone Diet” is not really a “diet” as much as it is a way of looking at the way you eat. …

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Pain Killer – Barry Meier

Below are personal notes I took for the book “Pain Killer“, by Barry Meier. It’s an exciting read that goes into great detail on the origins of the opioid crisis. He goes into WAY more detail in the book, but here is what I wrote down. Notes: There are really two crises in “The Opioid Crisis”: …

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To Tell or To Teach

One of the most important concepts in medicine is patient education. What good is it to tell a patient to do something if they don’t truly understand why. The term “doctor” means “teacher” in Latin, deriving from the word “docere” or “to teach”. With learning should come the desire and responsibility to spread that knowledge. …

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Tips for Maximizing Your Day

Everyone’s goal should be to maximize their day, to carpe diem! Below are a few tips to help optimize this: Establish a productive morning ritual Starting your day off in a productive manner puts you in a position to truly own the rest of the day. This doesn’t mean you have to wake up super …

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The Importance of Sleep

The 6 “S’s” of Sleep The benefits of sleep are extremely well-documented, but rarely do you ever meet someone who isn’t sleep-deprived in some capacity. Below is a sampling of different areas in life, that I called the “6 S’s”, where increased levels of sleep have been shown to have a positive effect. Most of …

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