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Barefoot Training and Gym Etiquette

Barefoot Training and Gym Etiquette I’ve been training barefoot for at least three years, without incident. Today, my streak ended. My wife’s high-end health club has an indoor waterfall behind the front desk. It’s the kind of place where you might find an empty Perrier bottle left on the gym floor. I wouldn’t want to be a member, but I’d love to try it out with one of her guest passes. Unfortunately, she forbids it. The issue is that, when it makes sense, I like to train barefoot. My wife...

3 days ago • 2 min read

The early bird gym experience When a new employee opens the gym, us members face a potential problem of both communication and comprehension. I work out when my gym opens at 5 a.m. While the early start frees up the rest of my day, it also puts my exercise plans at risk. The threat used to be the oversleeping employee with the key. Now, there’s more. Inside my gym, the club recently started locking the aerobics room when there is no class in session. The aerobics room is also the location...

10 days ago • 2 min read

The agenda behind cholesterol blood tests Laypeople don't understand their results in context. They only see red. One clue that the public health establishment was responding to COVID in bad faith was the “shock and awe” campaign of closures and lockdowns designed to scare the public into submission. Rule number one of the pandemic playbook until 2020 was that leaders should avoid frightening people and sowing panic. I wonder if there’s a similar shock and awe strategy related to the way labs...

13 days ago • 2 min read

How much of aging is under our control? Much of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s decline has been beyond his control, but some has been a conscious choice. I came across a clip on social media of a recent on-air interview between 70-year-old Howard Stern and 76-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger. The chemistry between these two used to be entertaining — like 25 years ago. Stern once asked Schwarzeneggar if Schwarzenegger suffered from any of the well-known side effects of long-term steroid use....

25 days ago • 2 min read

What else did the response to COVID break? The problem for societies that tear down parts of their civilization is what comes next. I’m reading a book called The Savage Continent which describes the conditions in Europe in the aftermath of World War II. One short passage illustrates how fragile morality always is. In 1929, world powers proudly adopted the Third Geneva Convention, which ensured the humane treatment of prisoners of war. Within a decade, the treaty had become meaningless: “These...

about 1 month ago • 3 min read

Everyman Common Sense My mother-in-law is getting sucked in again by corruption around the jab. I’m surprised there’s no option for individuals to just cut a check to Pfizer. My mother-in-law was born in San Cristobal, Venezuela in the early 1950s. The city is located in the mountains of western Venezuela, about 35 miles from the Colombian border. The area prospered in the 1950s due to extensive trade with Colombia consisting mostly of agricultural products and textiles. My mother-in-law...

about 2 months ago • 2 min read

The importance of n=1 A new way to see the world: Health agnosticism. Here’s your Word of the Week: agnosticism. It’s a fancy word that simply means the truth is unknowable. The term is generally used in a religious context — agnostics believe it is impossible to prove or disprove the existence of a higher power. However, in my experience, agnosticism also applies to health. Look for example at studies about COVID vaccine effectiveness. A September 2022 study in the Journal of Pediatrics and...

2 months ago • 2 min read

The opportunity cost of the government’s multi-trillion-dollar COVID response The tragedy of the government’s response to COVID was not only the pointless misery inflicted on the population, but also the missed opportunity to deploy trillions of dollars towards making a real difference in people’s lives. According to the Brownstone Institute, the U.S. federal government spent $10 trillion on COVID. The government’s own spending tracker website says, however, that the expenditure was a much...

3 months ago • 3 min read

Bad genes or just bad lifestyle? Tribesmen, fit and lean, eat almost anything. Why can't we? One of the most memorable quotes I’ve read came from a witty article about South Florida. It said: “The winters are colder than you might think, and the summers are hotter than you can imagine.” While true, minus the occasional hurricane, you still have year-round access to the outdoors. One way I capitalize on terrain not frozen solid or covered by snow is by taking off my shoes for some...

3 months ago • 2 min read

Medical Inertia in the Modern World Zombie wellness is ruining modern health while sabotaging the fitness experience. I was stunned to learn recently that there are pediatricians who prescribe fluoride pills to kids. The rationale in this case was that the homes are supplied by well water rather than a municipal source. I had thought — incorrectly — that the dangers of fluoride were common knowledge. Fluoride lowers IQ in children, inhibits absorption of magnesium and calcium, and interferes...

3 months ago • 2 min read
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