Apr 26 2024 76 mins 1
Listen to this episode to learn:
- common blood pressure and diabetes medications that derail your fitness program
- sarcopenia of aging starts not in the muscles, but in the brain
- fitness to treat cognitive decline and neurologic disorders, Parkinson, MS, stroke
- yoga, and the surprisingly high risk of injury
- why stretching is harmful, and a better way to maintain range-of-motion
- heart disease vs lung disease: the very different exercise rehab programs required
- rheumatoid arthritis, why your exercise program is all wrong, and how to fix it
- when to build muscle strength, and when to build muscle mass
- why exercise is superior to calorie restriction for managing weight
- why COPD patients must limit aerobic exercise and should build muscle mass instead
- Different types of exercise as medicine for aging, cancer, heart disease, high blood pressure, autoimmune conditions, dementia, osteoporosis, diabetes, lung disease/COPD and much more...
Our guest is an elite rower turned Exercise Medicine specialist, author, inventor, and specialist in fitness over 50. Meet Andy Baxter. Besides designing exercise equipment to curtail injury in elite athletes, he runs two gyms locally that cater to those over 50, and works privately with anyone in need of his specialty, "Medical Exercise."
Find Andy Baxter at Baxter Fitness Solutions.
Read Andy Baxter's book "The Exercise Prescription."
Dawn Lemanne, MD
Oregon Integrative Oncology
Leave no stone unturned.
Deborah Gordon, MD
Northwest Wellness and Memory Center
Building Healthy Brains
