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So in Part 1 of this article, I talked a bit about how to maintain (or even develop) muscle tissue past the age of forty. If you haven’t read that post, you might want to check it out. But this is mainly a tendon blog, and while maintaining muscle mass and strength should definitely be …
Cortisone shots are a common therapy that doctors frequently rely on when facing conditions like tendonitis and plantar fasciitis. But does cortisone really work? I’ll try to answer that question in some depth in just a minute. But let’s start with what cortisone actually is. First and foremost, cortisone is a hormone that’s produced by …
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It’s a fact; older athletes have trouble maintaining muscle mass. Somewhere around the start of your fifth decade, a condition called “anabolic resistance” sets in. While no one really knows the exact mechanisms involved, the problem is that it’s harder for the body to absorb the amino acids needed for developing and maintaining muscle after …
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There are a lot of searches going on for the keywords “magnesium and tendon pain”. if you look around the internet, quite a few health oriented websites have advice pertaining to the topic. And some recommend taking magnesium if you are experiencing tendon issues. But is the advice any good? Let’s take a look and …
I spend a lot of time talking about what tendonitis and tendonosis are, but in this post I’m going to talk about one case of what they are not. Runner’s knee is a sort of catch-all term for pain experienced in the knee, and the people who suffer from it aren’t limited to just runners. …
This post doesn’t have anything to do with tendon pain specifically, but I figured I’d give my thoughts on what sort of cookware is best to use. Because what you put into your body matters, and any additional stress can, in fact, make other conditions (like tendonopathies) become that much easier to fall into. Okay, …
I received an email the other day from a Target Tendonitis customer. His name is Anton, and he’s a professional level violinist. Here’s the email, slightly edited: Hello Alex, Just wanted to share some updates and ideas, so you can help more people: Your exercises definitely work, and healed about 95% of the issue, allowing …
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If you check around the internet, you’ll see any number of sites that promote glucosamine supplements for joint pain. Some of them promote glucosamine for tendon pain as well…but is it really effective? Glucosamine has a lot going for it. It’s cheap, widely available, easily absorbed by the body, and better tolerated in people than …
Last time I started talking about what one would want in an ideal supplement. So, enough teasing. Here is the answer to the question of what supplement has, in my opinion, the best overall effect on a person’s health: Garlic. But not just any garlic. The type of garlic I’m talking about has been specially …
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One of the new topics I’d like to talk about here on this blog is maintaining overall health, not just health as it pertains to tendons. I’m in my mid-50s now, still in the gym, still about as strong as I’ve ever been, and aside from a finasteride tablet that I take once a day …
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