Maximum Wellness Podcast
1) Episode 126: Determining Your Resting Metabolic Rate
Understanding a person’s metabolism – the process in which the body converts food consumed into fuel to expend during all of its functions – is a key component to any successful weight/fat loss progra...Show More
2) Episode 125: We Can Now Gauge the Endurance Capacity Required to Reduce Mortality Risk
The Journal of the American College of Cardiology reported on the results of a modeling study in August 2022 that concluded, “the association of CRF (cardiorespiratory fitness) and mortality risk acro...Show More
3) Episode 124: Sarcopenia May Require a Higher Protein Intake After the Age of Forty
Sarcopenia is the aging loss of lean muscle, resulting from a loss of strength – dynapenia – and a related anabolic resistance – the inability to regenerate lean muscle at the same rate, as a younger ...Show More
4) Episode 123: Coffee and Tea Consumption Reduces Stroke and Dementia Risk
Dementia, which globally effected over 50 million people in 2019, is characterized by a progressive and unrelenting deterioration of mental capacity – compromising everyday activities. Dementia is a ...Show More
5) Episode 122: Losing Body Fat While Increasing Muscle Can Pose Unique Challenges
In August of 1985, I designed and implemented the performance nutrition and conditioning plan that transformed the former undisputed World Light Heavyweight Champion Michael Spinks from his light heav...Show More
Episode 122: Losing Body Fat While Increasing Muscle Can Pose Unique Challenges
07:42 | Aug 2nd, 2022
6) Episode 121: Midlife Cardiorespiratory Fitness Reduces Risk of Cardiovascular Disease
Researchers from multiple departments of Boston University report in October 2021 in JAMA Network Open that a higher midlife estimated cardiorespiratory fitness level was associated with a lower burde...Show More
7) The Omega-3 Index Is a Diagnostic Tool to Assess Omega-3 Status
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is still the leading cause of death worldwide. The good news is that modifying CVD risk factors, such as an unhealthy diet, physical inactivity, not smoking, and limiting ...Show More
8) Episode 119: Retired NFL Players at Risk for Mild Cognitive Impairment After Age 50
New research – "Mild Cognitive Impairment and Dementia Reported by Former Professional Football Players over 50 Years of Age, An NFL-Long Study", which appeared in the March 2022 issue of Medicine & ...Show More
9) Episode 118: Creatine & Resistance Training Increase Bone Mineral Density in Older Adults
CDC.gov says that each year millions of people over 65 years of age fall – with one out of five causing serious injury, such as broken bones, or head injury, while three million older individuals are ...Show More
10) Episode 117: Healthy Lifestyle & Recognized Medical Interventions Support Covid-19 Recovery
In light of the ongoing, world-wide death rate attributed to Covid-19, combining a healthy lifestyle with recognized medical interventions – vaccines and medications – is critical to address the curre...Show More