Where 'fitness' and medicine are one
You know you can be 'fit' and not healthy but if you are healthy, you WILL be fit! I am SO SO excited to find this group. I am 54 (well, in Nov. and PROUD of it!) and made a mid life career change.
I worked in dialysis for over 20 years, loved resistance training for even longer than that. Always 'health concious.' I left the 'disease model' that is our current medical model to prevent people from ending up on dialysis. We had lots of Type 2 diabetics with end stage kidney disease. I got tired of watching them lose their toes, and feet and legs and vision...
I became a personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine. I specialized in health and fitness for women in mid-life. For some reason, there is a dirth of information that really works for middle aged women!! I was the largest revenue producer at the sports resort where I worked because I gave seminars with MDs about health AND fitness. They SHOULD be one and the same but they aren't.. yet!
I now work in a cutting edge medical clinic. Dr. Mike Nichols works with nutrition and exercise to reverse chronic diseases. Rad, I didn't get to read all the info you posted but seeing you had something about VO2max. Yuppers! the ability to carry oxygen is THE definitive measure of vitality.
What's happening is the tools we use to diagnose our health status are changing. It's very expensive but we can now know enough about a person's health status through blood work, scans, V02max measurements and medical history to reverse coronary calcium deposits, insulin resistance and especially CAD!!
Our clinic has been operational for over 4 years and I can tell you this... Find out what your insulin level, triglyceride level, lipid sub-particle profile, V02max, testosterone, HGF-1, cortisol, ferritin and CR-P levels are and you have a look at the tip of your health iceberg.
I worked in dialysis for over 20 years, loved resistance training for even longer than that. Always 'health concious.' I left the 'disease model' that is our current medical model to prevent people from ending up on dialysis. We had lots of Type 2 diabetics with end stage kidney disease. I got tired of watching them lose their toes, and feet and legs and vision...
I became a personal trainer through the American College of Sports Medicine. I specialized in health and fitness for women in mid-life. For some reason, there is a dirth of information that really works for middle aged women!! I was the largest revenue producer at the sports resort where I worked because I gave seminars with MDs about health AND fitness. They SHOULD be one and the same but they aren't.. yet!
I now work in a cutting edge medical clinic. Dr. Mike Nichols works with nutrition and exercise to reverse chronic diseases. Rad, I didn't get to read all the info you posted but seeing you had something about VO2max. Yuppers! the ability to carry oxygen is THE definitive measure of vitality.
What's happening is the tools we use to diagnose our health status are changing. It's very expensive but we can now know enough about a person's health status through blood work, scans, V02max measurements and medical history to reverse coronary calcium deposits, insulin resistance and especially CAD!!
Our clinic has been operational for over 4 years and I can tell you this... Find out what your insulin level, triglyceride level, lipid sub-particle profile, V02max, testosterone, HGF-1, cortisol, ferritin and CR-P levels are and you have a look at the tip of your health iceberg.
