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    AGE IS B.S.

    11/15/2017

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    Ninety year old people improve with strength training.

    People who started late in life can dramatically progress their athleticism.

    There are 101 year old marathon runners.

    There is a 91 year old female gymnast who can do movements some of the strongest Crossfit competitors in the world can't do yet.


    Look up pretty much any search string on sprinting, cognitive sharpness and nonagenarians, centenarians and supercentenarians; and you will find examples of people who do not just rapidly deteriorate as a result of minutes ticking by. The conventional modern thinking on what it means to age is unsupported by any actual scientific evidence. In logic, all you require to utterly destroy a proposed rule is a single counterexample. We have not one, but many.

    Age is B.S.

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    Greg McCrea
    11/19/2017 03:26:02 pm

    Yet there are still many in the medical profession who still follow the narrative on aging. One doctor saw the size of my heart, chose not to believe the amount of cycling that I did, and said that I had congestive heart failure. No one does serious cycling at my age, or so goes the narrative.
    There are a small number of cardiologists here in Houston who have challenged that narrative, mostly in the area of cardiac rehabilitation. Some of the heart patients have finished the MS150 ride, at a decent pace. Most of them show hardly any artifact of heart damage in their EKG. This has been due to a different approach to cardiac rehab, which goes past the one size fits all, just stick with the lowest common denominator and having "more realistic expectations".

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    jonathan
    11/19/2017 04:16:09 pm

    Thank you so much for the comment, Greg.

    It's true. There are many blinders on for a man with a hammer. Any professional, including those in medicine, are not immune to the frailties of human logic errors, sampling bias and experiential blinders. When it's an ignorance from never reading their own journal (JAMA), however, I find it a little less forgivable. Yes, no one can stay on top of all the pertinent science all the time. But willful naivety in cardiology by someone who claims the cardiologist moniker is a little ridiculous. I shadowed a very good electrophysiologist at the U; but even he still toed the line on some anachronistic viewpoints which have been completely overturned in the legitimate research world.

    The takeaway is memorize the edition and article name of several PlosOne, JAMA, BMJ or similar publication articles. When you cite them, if you see the specialists eyes glaze over in total lack of familiarity and/or incompetence, it's time to find another MD.

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