Joseph Jay Williams

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

New TSMP: EXERCISE AS MIRACLE DRUG Two big studies in the last 12 months: 1. Euan Ashley, the chair of medicine at Stanford, and a team of bioinformatics researchers put rats on treadmills, cut into their tissues, and found that exercise basically improved every measurable system, including metabolism, mitochondrial function, immunity, inflammation, and tissue-specific adaptation. He has estimated that "one minute of exercise, on average, extends one's life by five minutes." 2. In a recent NEJM study, 900 patients who had undergone surgery on their advanced colon cancer were randomly assigned to two groups: a “structured exercise program" vs. a control group. The exercise group saw “significantly” more years without cancer, a 7 percentage point increase in the overall survival rate after 8 years, and a dramatic reduction in new primary cancers. The MAHA movement, and RFK's weird antagonism toward vaccines and therapies, has polarized aspects of healthy living as anti-science woo-woo, in some circles, But exercise is probably the single most potent medical invention ever devised—more broadly effective, at a population level, than any medicine discovered in the natural world or created in a laboratory.