Category Archives: Healthcare

More Type 1 Diabetes

By Robb Wolf | October 9, 2009

Here is an interesting comment. One of two things is at work here:
1-As she notes, this may be a  bounce back period in which the pancreas is not completely destroyed and is still working in spurts.
or
2-They have removed the environmental irritants that CAUSED the Type 1 in the first place (gluten, grains) and her [...]

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Isn’t it Genetics?

By Robb Wolf | October 1, 2009

I received the following comment from Aaron and it’s an important point I’ve been meaning to make. As biotech makes it’s way into our lives there is a growing tendency to attribute EVERYTHING to genetics. Thousands of times I’ve heard the fatalistic refrain: “Well, my parents had diabetes (or heart disease or you pick the issues) [...]

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Statins and Rhabdomyolysis

By Robb Wolf | August 13, 2009

A theory exists for the mechanism of why statins increase rhabdomyolysis. For those of you who have been under a rock or lifting with your Sears 110lb cement barbell set, rhabdomyolysis (rhabdo) is a potentially life threatening condition that can occur in response to too much or too intense of exercise. Large amounts of eccentric [...]

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CrossFit and Performance Menu Message Board Docs.

By Robb Wolf | April 7, 2009

Hey there! In an effort to get more information out to folks I paid someone to mine the CrossFit Message board and the Performance Mneu message board for old threads I’ve participated in. It’s a boat load of information and I think will help to answer a lot of the questions that pop up for [...]

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Fish oil and the real cost of health

By Robb Wolf | March 25, 2009

I had a comment in the Red Meat, Global warming post that asked me to describe how the various health care systems stack-up. This, in response to my statement that socialized medicine tends to become a serious mess. My response to that question, instead of weighing the merits of the US system vs say the [...]

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