Do I or don’t I….go to medical school?
Because finding an image for this post was too much work after I wrote this. Credit: XKCD.com (my one true love)
I’m going to make an even further departure from my regular theme of posts as I’ve been getting a few emails from readers who are looking for career advice; and my answers have had some consistent themes, so why not exploit that and make a blog post out of it, right? Read More...
How to decide when you don’t know how to decide
I don’t know why they picked 29, since that the atomic number for copper, but this design is from http://www.whatonearthcatalog.com/cgi-bin/hazel.cgi?action=DETAIL&ITEM=CL9321
Two things happened this week that inspried me to write this post: Read More...
The HMB-FA randomized trial: Not Sure If….
Wow. It finally happened.
On first glance, I haven’t seen data this promising about a supplement since…ever. HMB (beta-hydroxy-beta-metahybutyrate) has been so _unpromising_ since its emergence back in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s, that I had basically stopped reading about it. And then Andrew Vigotsky mentioned me on Twitter and…well, consider me initially genuinely excited. Which is rare. Like, the next thing that might happen is a rain of frogs. But then I dug a little bit. Read More...
What is plastic surgery?
Photo credit: http://artificialhand.blogspot.ca/
I realize that there are a lot of faithful readers of my blog that date back to 2007, and hopefully some folks who go back further to my ramblings on the JPFitness forums. To those who have tolerated me for this many years, you probably don’t need to read this. But for those of you joining this quasi-regularly scheduled program, it may seem odd that a plastic surgeon should be writing about fitness at all (which I didn’t really think about until I was asked to introduce myself on the podcast interviews.) Read More...
Yummy (?) but not special Part II: Bulletproof Coffee
Photo credit: James Neish (it’s not Bulletproof)
I really didn’t think Bulletproof Coffee was going to take off like it did; and initially, I definitely didn’t want to write about it because I feel that sometimes, giving something negative publicity is still publicity and doesn’t necessarily strengthen my argument, but gives theirs more traction. However, when I saw Jill Coleman’s (@JillFit) status update, “I’m confused by Bulletproof coffee. The old fashioned version seems to do the trick just fine, no?” I realized that if Jill is confused, a lot of people are probably confused too. That, and I think anyone who reads my blog probably already knows about it, so really, I’m not giving them any MORE publicity than they already have. Read More...
Saying, “It works for me,” is exactly like saying, “I have a tickling fetish.”
Photo source:
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/06/28/have-you-had-your-tickle-today/
I’m a big fan of Dan Savage’s “Savage Love” and his Lovecast. It’s so refreshing to listen to someone who gives practical advice in such a sex-positive (about as sex-positive as you can get really) fashion. I’m currently listening to his new book, “American Savage”, and it’s great (mostly because he narrates it.) At any rate, with so much “advice” out there, the overarching message that has filtered its way through the morass has been “Find what works for you.” Read More...
#nofansforsochi
Source: http://carcabin.com
This past weekend, I was listening to “Cross-Country Check-up” (Oh my god how I have missed the CBC!) and the topic was Russia’s new anti-LGBT-propaganda law and its effect on the upcoming Winter Olympics to be held in Sochi. Read More...
Evidence and innovation: Behind or not?
Source: https://devcentral.f5.com/articles/hindsight-is-always-twenty-twenty
Spurred on by Bret Contreras and a Facebook link from Lars Avemarie, “If you are truly evidence-based, you’re only as good as somebody else was 2 years ago,” I figured I would brush this draft off and publish it. Read More...
Just what IS ‘peer-review’, exactly?
by Gary Larson
Of all of the research-related activities I’ve done, short of actual research, peer-review is the activity I do the most, and the one that I’ve been doing the longest. I regularly review for three publications (i.e. I’m in their rota somewhere), and get sporadic requests from others (usually because I’m one of the references.) My perspective on peer-review differs from most. It’s not to say that I’m against it or that I have a better idea; but that as with all processes in science, the imperfections are worth knowing because the devil lies in those details. Read More...