Simplavida: Simplified Longevity

Paul and Howard talk about sports injury imaging, from x-rays and MRI, to ultrasound. 

Topics:

• What are the main tools for imaging injuries?
• When are these tools most useful? When are they not? 
• Why Paul…

Paul and Howard talk about healthy aging, from cell death, to diet, to centenarians, and exercise in-between. Financial geek that he is, Paul sneaks in a little riff about pension fraud too. There is…

Paul and Howard talk about air, exercise, lung function, and breathing in an age of wildfires and coronavirus. There is a fairly crap transcript here.

Topics:

• Viruses and exercise
• A primer on lung funct…

We got lots of questions on our recent episode about air, exercise, and wildfires, so here is a short, deeper dive into the topic. We gave Howard the episode off, so I have a special guest, Christoph…

Paul and Howard talk about rotator cuffs, those four muscles around your shoulder that often go awry and sometimes really hurt. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Topics:

• What are rotator cuffs a…

Paul and Howard talk about surgical anesthesia with a special guest: Jon Bauman, Chief of Anesthesiology at St. John's Riverside Hospital in Westchester, New York.  There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™…

Paul and Howard talk about shoes and their consequences. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Topics:

• Why do we wear shoes? 
• The evolutionary history of the foot
• The anatomic consequences of shoe wea…

Paul and Howard have a special guest, the amazing Dr. Inigo San Milan from the School of Medicine at the University of Colorado, one of the top researchers in the world on this topic. We talk about a…

Paul and Howard talk about the relationship between muscle mass, strength, and longevity. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Topics:

• Why muscle mass is important, and not just for bodybuilders
• The…

Paul and Howard take listener questions about strength, longevity, and fitness. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Topics:

• How to stay motivated
• What being fit means
• How to sneak in enough activity

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In the first of a multi-part series, Paul and Howard talk about metabolic syndrome, from its rise, to its prevalance, to its causes, and its consequences. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Topi…

We have a new podcast episode out: Rest, Recovery, and Exercise Addiction. 

Overview:

Paul and Howard talk about rest, recovery, and exercise addiction. We range across its causes, diagnosing it, and i…

In the second of a two-part series, Paul and Howard talk about metabolic syndrome, in particular about how its effects can be reduced, and even eliminated. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Top…

In a continuing series, Paul and Howard talk about parts of the body that sometimes hurt. This time we're on about Why Knees Sometimes Hurt. There is a Fairly Crap Transcript™ here.

Topics:

• What pain i…

In this episode, Paul and Howard talk about fitness and heart-related measures, from resting heart rate to heart rate variability. We will get into this topic in much more detail in some upcoming epi…

AMA (Ask Me Anything), with Paul and Howard.

Topics:

• Zone 2
• Rest days
• Recovery
• Best home exercises

Bios:

Paul Kedrosky is a frequently injured athlete who, when he isn't rehabbing, is also a venture investo…