Hi folks, welcome to another lovely day! "Go then! There are other worlds than these." Jake, 'The Dark Tower' by Stephen King. Yes! I mean you, my readers! Go out and have adventures while you can. They're just waiting for you, believe it or not. Live a dream. I looked out of the window this morning, and there was a car with Alaska plates - friend's visiting. More specifically, Maggie visiting from the 49th ... Read more
Having A Conversation With Your Myofascial Massage Roller To Treat Plantar Fasciitis And Other Training Strains
Hi folks, welcome! Myofascial massage rollers can be expensive, so choose wisely. Rebecca and I consider the selection of rollers, but whichever one you buy remember that you are having a conversation with the roller. From time to time we receive questions about massage rollers in relation to treating plantar fasciitis. In fact, they have been somewhat frequent lately - I wonder if it's the cold weather ... Read more
Thoughts On The Role Of Passive Versus Active Recovery In The Case Of Plantar Fasciitis
"Men are born soft and supple; dead, they are stiff and hard. Plants are born tender and pliant; dead, they are brittle and dry. Thus whoever is stiff and inflexible is a disciple of death. Whoever is soft and yielding is a disciple of life. The hard and stiff will be broken. The soft and supple will prevail." From the Tao te Ching by Lao-tzu, translated by S. Mitchell. Hi folks, welcome to my ... Read more
FitOldDog Visits The Cleveland Clinic, And Enjoyed The City Too! Which Cleveland Do You Believe?
Hi folks, welcome! When my sister in Spain, Marian, learned that I had been invited to the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, to have a life-saving repair to my abdominal aortic aneurysm stent graft, she kindly forwarded a link to the first video below concerning the city of Cleveland. Now, I'm a glass half-full person, and I just didn't believe it, so I made my own Cleveland Video. There's good and not so good in every ... Read more
What Do Lysenko And The Low Fat Diet Fad Have In Common? They Both Killed Millions!
Hi folks, welcome to my thoughts! As a severe genetic hyperlipemic (resting HDL <20, LDL >2000, plasma like cream, when I discovered it in 1976 BAD), who doesn't want to use muscle toxins, such as statins, I increased my HDL to 41 with fish oil and Ironman training, and then I added the Paleo diet 8 months ago and my HDL went to 79, with other parameters in the normal range (GOOD) - you are what you eat, ... Read more
Practice Makes Perfect When It Comes To Living With An Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm – Watch That Abdominal Pulse
Hi folks, welcome! I am fortunate, or maybe you would say unfortunate, to be monitoring a growing abdominal aortic aneurysm for the second time in my life. It will be fixed soon, I'm sure. How do I monitor my aneurysm, you may ask? By intermittent ultrasound checks, and daily by watching my abdominal pulse. I sure noticed increased strength of this pulse whilst swimming yesterday, so I abruptly stopped after only ... Read more
As FitOldDog (aka FatOldDog) Faces His Second Aortic Surgery He Reflects Briefly On The Nature Of His Disease, And Raynaud’s Syndrome Too!
se·man·tics, noun "The branch of linguistics and logic concerned with meaning. There are a number of branches and subbranches of semantics, including formal semantics, which studies the logical aspects of meaning, such as sense, reference, implication, and logical form, lexical semantics, which studies word meanings and word relations, and conceptual semantics, which studies the cognitive structure of ... Read more
Your Outside Problems Can Often Be Fixed On The Inside With A Little Work
"Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy." Aristotle (born 384 BCE) Brainy Quotes Hi folks! Another lovely day. No? If it seems as if something is wrong with your world, maybe something is wrong with your attitude - look inside ... Read more
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