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Trail running has long been my happy place. Actually, any form of running enables me to start my day invigorated and ready to go
From an Orthopedic Surgery perspective, our metabolic health has been shown to affect knee pain, osteoarthritis, and our rotator cuff. Your metabolic health will also affect how much knee, hip or shoulder pain you experience once osteoarthritis has started. So elevated cholesterol and LDL increases your risk for shoulder pain due to rotator cuff tears. This paper discussed how metabolic disease increases your risk of developing osteoarthritis Far too often we use outward appearance or weight to view if someone appears healthy.
ACL tears are occurring with alarming frequency. Most people are told to have ACL surgery soon after the injury
It’s not appealing to me to live longer if I’m living with doctors appointments each week, open heart surgery, six medications and I’m unable to get up from the floor if I fall. Specific ApoE proteins types carry a higher risk of developing Alzheimer’s, atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease, and stroke. Being able to manipulate their expression, or their downstream effects will modify our risk for heart disease, stroke and many cases of Alzheimer’s Dementia. If you think of your risk of developing AD in much the same way as your risk of developing other vascular issues such as cardiac disease and stroke, then the impetus to get up, make your day harder, and exercise more hopefully grows stronger.