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Boners are a better predictor of future health than smoking, high blood pressure, or diabetes. Here's why. As many of you know, my long-time friend and world-renowned strength coach, Charles Poliquin, died from a suspected heart attack. Charles’s death has had me thinking a lot about heart...

How likely are you to die from a heart-related problem? Find out now. It'll only take a minute. Here’s a fun fact: Statistically, if you don’t die in some type of accident before the age of 44, you’re probably going to keel over from cardiovascular disease later in life. CVD is actually a whole...

by TC Luoma Multiple studies indicate that there's a correlation between the size of your calves and your mortality. For real. I haven’t done much direct work for my calves for years. It’s not because they were naturally big and didn’t need it. Far from it. Training them was just so…...

A group of researchers got ahold of the coroner's reports on bodybuilders who died young. Here are their grim findings. Steroid-induced cardiomyopathy. Severe cardiomegaly with concentric left ventricular hypertrophy. Sudden cardiac dysrhythmia due to hypertensive cardiovascular disease. These...

Your life may depend on doing one simple thing as soon as you wake up in the morning, especially if you're over 40. Beware of Dehydrated Monday Most heart attacks occur in the morning. If you want to get really specific about it, most heart attacks occur on Monday morning. Part of it has to do...

The Truth About Cholesterol, Fat, and Heart Disease You’re being lied to. Here’s what’s true and untrue about taking care of your heart health. Jake recently underwent heart surgery – a quintuple bypass. Amazingly, he didn’t have any of the traditional risk factors. His blood pressure and...

by TC Luoma High Cholesterol Might Make You Live Longer A couple of unheralded research papers claim that it's actually low LDL cholesterol that's bad and that statins should be discontinued. I want to tell you a story that offers up a little perspective on the topic of cholesterol. It involves...

by TC Luoma The Numbers Keep Adding Up. Why? A lot of relatively young competitive bodybuilders have died recently, but they're only the latest in a long, grim line. Here's why it might be happening. It's really weird, but I haven't had all that much experience with death in my personal life...

Strong Heart, Long Life For heart health, everybody knows about the merits of fish oil, exercise, stress avoidance, and not letting electrical appliances fall into your bathwater. But there are several equally important supplements and strategies. Here are five to help keep you alive. According...

A Supplement that Might Replace Many Drugs Nattokinase, a readily available, safe, inexpensive supplement, appears to have cardiovascular benefits that at first are hard to believe. I can’t do it. I just can’t stomach starting another heart disease article – as appears to be the custom – by...

The benefits of high-intensity interval training and steady-state cardio are similar regarding fat loss. The only considerations you need to think about are time and preference. Not whether one burns more fat or calories. It’s how much time you are willing to devote to getting your heart rate up...

How to Keep Your Ticker Ticking Most American men will die from heart disease. I’m trying very hard not to be one of them. As such, I research heart-healthy strategies that go beyond exercise and diet. I’m talking about chemical solutions: supplements that destroy plaques, energize the heart...

Ozempic: GLP-1 Drugs May Help Prevent 34,000 Heart Attacks and Strokes Per Year Share on PinterestGLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy may help reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and prevent more than 34,000 heart attacks and strokes a year. Iparraguirre Recio/Getty Images GLP-1s, the...

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...