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For millions of us, mornings just wouldn’t be the same without a steaming hot cup of coffee, and while caffeine had previously gained a bad rap for purportedly causing dehydration and thus effecting our performance, more recent work on the subject has debunked the idea that a single a cup of...

Phil Vassar has no plans on quitting music, even after his heart nearly quit on him. The singer-songwriter has been give a second chance on life—and music—just a year and a half after both a heart attack and stroke caused his heart to stop beating for nearly 30 minutes. He survived death twice...

Metcon For Health, Leanness, and Muscle You don't need hours of cardio to keep your heart healthy and your body lean. Here are the best ways to do loaded metabolic conditioning. Metabolic conditioning 25 (metcon) won’t just make you healthier. It’ll allow you to recover faster between sets and...

Joey Swoll is the larger than life, self-appointed, defender of good gym etiquette that gets millions of people talking across his social media platforms, so news that the famous bodybuilder was laid up in the hospital following a serious heart scare soon had fans and Hollywood’s finest rushing...

Step counting and calorie tracking, step aside—there’s a new metric on the block that everyone’s obsessing over: heart rate variability (HRV). But despite its rising popularity, many of us might be misinterpreting what HRV truly represents and how it should be used. According to Marco Altini...

Have you ever felt there aren’t enough hours to juggle work, life, and an effective cardio workout? If you’re nodding while sipping your fourth coffee to wake up, this one’s for you. Enter the ultimate 15-minute cardio workout for those who dislike wasting time on a cardio machine. It’s perfect...

Dear lord I'm going on 41 years of juicing this year. I don't know when I got so old. I should be posting up pics of the 41 year journey, but I need to do a lot of searching for the pics. I have never really had any problems yet. Except minor things CPK level went sky high one time, felt like...

After years of being maligned in favor of vegetable oils, butter is getting a retrial. A brand-new study from the British Medical Journal reports that replacing the saturated fats in butter with linoleic acid–rich fats such as corn, sunflower, and soybean oil not only failed to improve cardiac...

Keep that Sucker Pumping Strong Like most American men, it’ll likely be my heart that takes me out, and I don’t mean take me out to the zoo or dancing or anything fun like that. It’ll probably happen this way. I may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. I’ll probably be...

Gather up four of your male friends. Statistically, one of you will die from a heart-related problem. Let's make sure it's one of the other bastards and test your heart health now. The Test Walk up 4 flights of stairs in under 45 seconds. THE RULES Start a timer and walk (don't run) up four...

HEART HEALTH SUPPLEMENTS: BEYOND CARDIO & CLEAN EATING When it comes to your ticker, everybody knows about the merits of fish oil, regular exercise, stress avoidance, not snacking on lard, and trying not to let electrical appliances fall into your bathwater. But there are several lesser-known...

Up until a few years ago, vitamin B3 or niacin was one of two supplements (the other being fish oil) widely recommended for heart health. Fat hearts, skinny hearts, hearts that climb on rocks... Grinch hearts, clogged hearts, even hearts with a COX-2 inhibitor-induced increase in cardiovascular...

The simple test requires you to answer one question: How easy is it for you to develop and maintain an erection? Why Boners Are a Canary in a Coal Mine Every artery in the body contains a single-celled lining called the endothelium. It's this single-cell lining that releases nitric oxide gas...

MEDICAL POLITICS, INEFFICIENCY, AND SLOPPINESS You may be the healthiest son of a gun who ever lived, with an industrial grade, steampunk cardiovascular system with flexible, unclogged arteries and veins like garden hoses, but it's possible, even likely, that you'll be diagnosed with high blood...

Raise Your Heart Rate, Build Your Body Cardio for Gains? Can conditioning or aerobic work support your muscle-building goals? Yes. Better aerobic fitness means you’ll be able to bring more oxygen and nutrients to muscles. Aerobic work actually helps us develop more capillaries, which is like...

High Cholesterol Might Make You Live Longer Cholesterol Science: Something is Off I want to tell you a story that offers up a little perspective on the topic of cholesterol. It involves my mother. She was wasting away from a catastrophic trio of lung cancer, chemo, and radiation, and I tried...

To make gains in the gym, you have to push yourself... Hard. If your muscles are aching, your lungs are burning, and sweat is oozing from every pore of your body, you know pretty darn well that you’re bringing it in the gym. Could you push yourself even harder? How do you know you’ve really...

A sugar replacement called erythritol — used to add bulk or sweeten stevia, monk-fruit, and keto reduced-sugar products — has been linked to blood clotting, stroke, heart attack and death, according to a new study. “The degree of risk was not modest,” said lead author Dr. Stanley Hazen...

Mk 677 vs LGD 4033 MK 677 and LGD 4033 are both effective at muscle repair and bone building and have been researched in the settings of age-related frailty and muscle wasting in chronic disease. While neither compound is considered a peptide, MK 677 comes closer to being a peptide than LGD 4033...

by Sarah Garone, N.D.T.R. If you fancy yourself a chef (or a foodie), you probably love garlic for the zingy flavor it adds to everything from marinara sauce to soups and curries. But get this: Those beige bulbs aren’t just great for flavoring food. They’ve got plenty of health benefits, too. In...