3 Hip Saving Exercises for Osteoporosis and Osteopenia
If you’ve been diagnosed with bone loss in your hips, there are specific, evidence-based exercises that are known to help. We do a wide variety of hip strengthening exercises in our Strong Bones class, but for this blog I’ve highlighted three that are simple to do. ...
Are Walking Poles Worth Using?
Walking is an excellent activity not only for our overall health and wellbeing, but also for our bones. In a large study of over 61,000 postmenopausal women, Feskanich and colleagues found that walking 4 hours/week “substantially” reduced the risk of hip fracture...
How and Why to Get Those ZZZ’s
WHY A SOLID SNOOZE IS SO IMPORTANT As a result of the large uptick in sleep research over the last several years, we now know that good sleep quality is a predictor of physical health, mental health, and vitality. There is growing evidence that high-quality sleep can...
A Lesson from Killer Whales
The Collapsed Dorsal Fin of Captive Orcas For many years, there has been scientific debate concerning the reason why the naturally straight and very tall dorsal fin of killer whales (orcas) sometimes flops over. While there are various theories explaining this...
Journey of a Lifetime
The John Muir trail is a 211-mile hike that spans from Yosemite to Mount Whitney in Southern California.