A physician /longevity author's take on midlife health, movement, and resilience. I write about fitness, longevity, mindset, and the quiet cost of stillness. Sometimes, it is orthopedic and always focused on living stronger—on purpose.
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Think In Movements, Not Muscles: Why You Don’t Need 15 Different Exercises
How to cover most every muscle by using 6 basic movement patterns.
You roll into the gym, or drop onto the mat in your garage, or wherever it is that you do the work, and you wonder… Am I actually covering everything? Am I missing a muscle...
Pain, Signals, and Decision-Making: Module 10
How should we interpret pain? When do you keep going and when do you stop?
At some point in any training life, something begins to hurt. It may be subtle at first, presenting as a stiffness that lingers longer than expected, a discomfort t...
Exercise and Knee Arthritis: Can Exercise Decrease Pain AND Increase Cartilage Thickness?
We're going to review a fascinating new article. If you have OA and can still exercise you will want to read this.
Very often, during second- and third-opinion consults, I hear the same story in my office several times a week. Someone got...
NSAIDS: When Are You Muting the Signal Your Body Needs to Adapt and Heal?
You might be surprised by the numerous downsides of routinely taking NSAIDs.
Your knee hurts after a long run. Your shoulder aches after a heavy session. Your achilles is cranky after yesterday’s hike. So you reach for the ibuprofen. Maybe...
Muscle is Medicine
Muscle isn’t just for athletes. From my vantage point, it’s mostly for aging well.
After midlife, we lose some muscle because we’re getting older—saropenia is real, but more often, we will lose considerable muscle because we have stopped c...
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I'm Howard Luks, MD, a 63-year-old orthopedic surgeon and author of Longevity Simplified. I write about exercise physiology, metabolic health, and the science of aging well.
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