I was a pretty dedicated amateur athlete in my 20s and 30s, training somewhere between 10-20 hours/week and teaching fitness classes multiple times a week (plus bike-commuting). Today I have multiple issues due to overuse, which I am slowly taking care of with PT and bodywork. When people hear about it, they always say "but you are so healthy and exercise so much!" I wish people would understand that exercise can be really punishing on the body and that the love of sport and competition can lead us to do things we know are unhealthy. When I was at my peak, I competed on a half-ironman in 100 F heat. Soon after I was diagnosed with OTS; I had trained so hard for so long, my body stopped producing estrogen. In my late 20s I was having night-sweats like a menopausal woman. My recovery involved NO EXERCISE for 6 month... In short, I became healthier by detraining completely.
Apologies that happened to you Tuna. Exercise is absolutely necessary and very beneficial on the body, but I think we tend to overdo it thinking that there's no such thing as over-exercising.
One of the review articles above (I can't remember which one) mentioned how in a marathon that's usually 26 miles it's usually within the last mile or two where over half of all of the heart attacks and sudden cardiac failure occurs.
Over the past few weeks I realized that I had more difficulty working out and was wondering if it was due to lack of sleep or something else. However, taking a day or two off really helped and it just helped me realize that I was probably overdoing it but trying to push through when I really should have taken that as a reason to slow down or take a break.
Absolutely. People think the "pushing through the pain" part is the hardest thing, when it's really having the practical wisdom to know when to give your body a break. We become stronger during recovery.
The break really is one of the worst things mentally. It's similar to work or anything that comes from routine. Lacking that routine really makes it feel like something is incomplete, but it really is something that many people need to keep in mind. Stuff that may hurt a bit when young may be very painful when older.
All the points in this article is why I felt a complete medical evaluation with your primary doctor should have been a requirement prior to receiving a Covid-19 vaccination. I personally created my own protocol for vaccination with Johnson & Johnson. I did:
- comprehensive blood work analysis 6 months prior;
-covid-19 testing 2 weeks, then 5 days before receiving the shot to ensure I was not currently infected;
-1 month after vaccination another round of comprehensive bloodwork & urinalysis;
-continued PCR testing every 2 weeks to check for infection;
-6 months post vaccination comprehensive bloodwork, including Sars-Co-2 antibody, thyroid antibody and D-Dimer tests;
-a 1 year comprehensive bloodwork test and T-Detect test for Sars-Co-2.
All of this because I knew I was participating in an experiment and wanted to judge the results for myself instead of "wondering" if.. what.. why- something may have happened.
If anything, prior medical history should be taken into account. Once again the reports of anaphylactic shock in nurses should have immediately told us that medical history should be evaluated before vaccination, especially for a new experimental vaccine.
Then, as soon as adverse reactions were found there should have been some halt or further reevaluation but instead they just charged ahead while playing down all of the severe reactions.
" The WHO considers PEDs to be substances of concern, and concerns over body dysmorphia, especially among young men who may be influenced by social media influencers"
I wonder if the WHO is also concerned about the epidemic of young women getting butt and breast implants as well as other risky cosmetic surgeries under the influence of social media influencers
Darn, thanks for pointing that out! I was thinking there was a citation I was missing!
I think as a substance the WHO probably perceives it differently than plastic surgery, but it's always an interesting thing to see who dips their toes into different areas. I'm personally of the mindset that people can do what they wish if they know the ramifications, and for the most part people who appear to use steroids recreationally do so knowing that there's a good chance they will die young, so for agencies to make a big deal for those who are aware of their use seems a bit like concern policing.
"I think as a substance the WHO probably perceives it differently than plastic surgery, but it's always an interesting thing to see who dips their toes into different areas."
True there is a difference there. But what about gender affirming care. You are giving opposite sex hormones to a still developing adolescent. Yet the WHO is apparently not concerned. Meanwhile, full grown adults with adult agency and responsibility (they are grown enough to know what they are getting into) are somehow a problem for the WHO. To me this is all just part and parcel of the war on masculinity.
There's a lot to say about the hormonal issues. It's one of the reasons why I mentioned the whole bodybuilder issue since I have some thoughts as to why steroid use among young men can at least show us why the big push for hormonal therapy can be quite detrimental. It is ironic that men in their 30s or 40s who suffer from low Testosterone really have to go through hoops to get treatment yet the idea that one can proclaim trans and get hormones right away is baffling.
Granted, in younger people there is a real concern, but banning rather than education probably won't do much to help dissuade people- most of these substances are banned anyways.
Well done. I like this statement near the end: "It’s the sum of all insults"
I've been aware of the increase in cardio death and collapse amongst athletes since the jabs rolled out. Thanks as always for well researched and written pieces like this.
I was an extreme skier through my 50s, and became a wild ecstatic dancer as well. So I now suffer arthritis from overuse injury as well as joint injuries. Would I do it all again? Yes. However, having said that, I was never an elite athlete nor did I mimic that training regime (ecstatic and modern dance were the best physical training for skiing I ever found) nor did I do the carbo load thing and ate healthy as my mom was a nutrition nut. So at 70, other than joints (for which I've found non surgical interventions) I am healthy, knock on wood. I walk and swim for pleasure a few times a week, "digging the garden, pulling the weeds, who could ask for more?"
The fact that there's been a sharp uptick is concerning and requires investigation, but that requires that we contextualize these issues and investigate all possible factors. I wrote this post to highlight the fact that we aren't doing ourselves any favors in figuring out what's happening if we just suddenly brush off these incidences and being solely due to the vaccine without understanding the fact that athletes are not necessarily healthy.
I do wish you the best of health Paul! I'd hope to be in that position when I reach that age!
“It’s the sum of all insults.” This is a good summation … about a whole lot of things. Possibly even everything. Wouldn’t it always be true … minus that one final insult, the outcome must differ? Or maybe the insult in the middle? Now I have something really deep to think about this weekend. Thanks! (sorry if this sounds sarcastic, absolutely not meant that way at all.)
No worries Judith! And like I said if the issue was solely the vaccines we should probably be seeing far higher numbers of SCD or myocarditis than we are now. That should clue us in that some other factors warrant examining. As such, it is likely that the vaccines are the final nail in the coffin (not to sound cynical) of a multitude of nails that have already been hammered in.
I do find that the current narrative may obfuscate any deeper investigation hence why I covered this section specifically.
But... How can we "see" if there are more.. when there is no true tracking of events? We are really in the dark here.
On the last article you wrote... right after I commented that the information should be disseminated to high school coaches ASAP... My LOCAL(non major media newsletter) posted about the young man who collapsed during practice... that wasn't on the NEWS... so in terms of "us" seeing these events... it will really depend on us as individuals paying attention to what's happening right in our backyards... this will not be publicized on MSNBC..LOL
It is difficult. We're working off speculation most of the time and because of that many people are now turning to assuming that all accidents or sudden deaths are indicative of vaccine adverse reactions. It's why in the next post I made a comment that in the absence of knowledge people may turn to hysteria. We really don't know the full scope of what's happening right now, and that means that the zealots will proclaim that all of these incidents are over representative or could be due to other circumstances, and then on this side we may see every little incident has being caused by the vaccine without any evidence to make such a suggestion. In a similar way that we should look and see what news is being reported we should also be careful in falling into a real of histrionics that may cloud our critical thinking and ability to make rational arguments.
Since there is a connection between the mRNA vaccines, myocarditis and young men, along with this series on Catecholamines, if an "assumption" for caution would save 1 life... it would be worth it. Most schools have required vaccination this term... if there is even the slightest of chances that there might be a serious problem then a warning should be issued. I'd rather the young men live before I care whether the vaccine makers look good or not. We are beyond question whether the vaccines cause adverse events as soon as administered.. we are now investigating if they cause long term adverse events.
I was a pretty dedicated amateur athlete in my 20s and 30s, training somewhere between 10-20 hours/week and teaching fitness classes multiple times a week (plus bike-commuting). Today I have multiple issues due to overuse, which I am slowly taking care of with PT and bodywork. When people hear about it, they always say "but you are so healthy and exercise so much!" I wish people would understand that exercise can be really punishing on the body and that the love of sport and competition can lead us to do things we know are unhealthy. When I was at my peak, I competed on a half-ironman in 100 F heat. Soon after I was diagnosed with OTS; I had trained so hard for so long, my body stopped producing estrogen. In my late 20s I was having night-sweats like a menopausal woman. My recovery involved NO EXERCISE for 6 month... In short, I became healthier by detraining completely.
Apologies that happened to you Tuna. Exercise is absolutely necessary and very beneficial on the body, but I think we tend to overdo it thinking that there's no such thing as over-exercising.
One of the review articles above (I can't remember which one) mentioned how in a marathon that's usually 26 miles it's usually within the last mile or two where over half of all of the heart attacks and sudden cardiac failure occurs.
Over the past few weeks I realized that I had more difficulty working out and was wondering if it was due to lack of sleep or something else. However, taking a day or two off really helped and it just helped me realize that I was probably overdoing it but trying to push through when I really should have taken that as a reason to slow down or take a break.
Absolutely. People think the "pushing through the pain" part is the hardest thing, when it's really having the practical wisdom to know when to give your body a break. We become stronger during recovery.
The break really is one of the worst things mentally. It's similar to work or anything that comes from routine. Lacking that routine really makes it feel like something is incomplete, but it really is something that many people need to keep in mind. Stuff that may hurt a bit when young may be very painful when older.
All the points in this article is why I felt a complete medical evaluation with your primary doctor should have been a requirement prior to receiving a Covid-19 vaccination. I personally created my own protocol for vaccination with Johnson & Johnson. I did:
- comprehensive blood work analysis 6 months prior;
-covid-19 testing 2 weeks, then 5 days before receiving the shot to ensure I was not currently infected;
-1 month after vaccination another round of comprehensive bloodwork & urinalysis;
-continued PCR testing every 2 weeks to check for infection;
-6 months post vaccination comprehensive bloodwork, including Sars-Co-2 antibody, thyroid antibody and D-Dimer tests;
-a 1 year comprehensive bloodwork test and T-Detect test for Sars-Co-2.
All of this because I knew I was participating in an experiment and wanted to judge the results for myself instead of "wondering" if.. what.. why- something may have happened.
If anything, prior medical history should be taken into account. Once again the reports of anaphylactic shock in nurses should have immediately told us that medical history should be evaluated before vaccination, especially for a new experimental vaccine.
Then, as soon as adverse reactions were found there should have been some halt or further reevaluation but instead they just charged ahead while playing down all of the severe reactions.
word...smh
" The WHO considers PEDs to be substances of concern, and concerns over body dysmorphia, especially among young men who may be influenced by social media influencers"
I wonder if the WHO is also concerned about the epidemic of young women getting butt and breast implants as well as other risky cosmetic surgeries under the influence of social media influencers
Darn, thanks for pointing that out! I was thinking there was a citation I was missing!
I think as a substance the WHO probably perceives it differently than plastic surgery, but it's always an interesting thing to see who dips their toes into different areas. I'm personally of the mindset that people can do what they wish if they know the ramifications, and for the most part people who appear to use steroids recreationally do so knowing that there's a good chance they will die young, so for agencies to make a big deal for those who are aware of their use seems a bit like concern policing.
"I think as a substance the WHO probably perceives it differently than plastic surgery, but it's always an interesting thing to see who dips their toes into different areas."
True there is a difference there. But what about gender affirming care. You are giving opposite sex hormones to a still developing adolescent. Yet the WHO is apparently not concerned. Meanwhile, full grown adults with adult agency and responsibility (they are grown enough to know what they are getting into) are somehow a problem for the WHO. To me this is all just part and parcel of the war on masculinity.
There's a lot to say about the hormonal issues. It's one of the reasons why I mentioned the whole bodybuilder issue since I have some thoughts as to why steroid use among young men can at least show us why the big push for hormonal therapy can be quite detrimental. It is ironic that men in their 30s or 40s who suffer from low Testosterone really have to go through hoops to get treatment yet the idea that one can proclaim trans and get hormones right away is baffling.
Granted, in younger people there is a real concern, but banning rather than education probably won't do much to help dissuade people- most of these substances are banned anyways.
Well done. I like this statement near the end: "It’s the sum of all insults"
I've been aware of the increase in cardio death and collapse amongst athletes since the jabs rolled out. Thanks as always for well researched and written pieces like this.
I was an extreme skier through my 50s, and became a wild ecstatic dancer as well. So I now suffer arthritis from overuse injury as well as joint injuries. Would I do it all again? Yes. However, having said that, I was never an elite athlete nor did I mimic that training regime (ecstatic and modern dance were the best physical training for skiing I ever found) nor did I do the carbo load thing and ate healthy as my mom was a nutrition nut. So at 70, other than joints (for which I've found non surgical interventions) I am healthy, knock on wood. I walk and swim for pleasure a few times a week, "digging the garden, pulling the weeds, who could ask for more?"
The fact that there's been a sharp uptick is concerning and requires investigation, but that requires that we contextualize these issues and investigate all possible factors. I wrote this post to highlight the fact that we aren't doing ourselves any favors in figuring out what's happening if we just suddenly brush off these incidences and being solely due to the vaccine without understanding the fact that athletes are not necessarily healthy.
I do wish you the best of health Paul! I'd hope to be in that position when I reach that age!
“It’s the sum of all insults.” This is a good summation … about a whole lot of things. Possibly even everything. Wouldn’t it always be true … minus that one final insult, the outcome must differ? Or maybe the insult in the middle? Now I have something really deep to think about this weekend. Thanks! (sorry if this sounds sarcastic, absolutely not meant that way at all.)
No worries Judith! And like I said if the issue was solely the vaccines we should probably be seeing far higher numbers of SCD or myocarditis than we are now. That should clue us in that some other factors warrant examining. As such, it is likely that the vaccines are the final nail in the coffin (not to sound cynical) of a multitude of nails that have already been hammered in.
I do find that the current narrative may obfuscate any deeper investigation hence why I covered this section specifically.
But... How can we "see" if there are more.. when there is no true tracking of events? We are really in the dark here.
On the last article you wrote... right after I commented that the information should be disseminated to high school coaches ASAP... My LOCAL(non major media newsletter) posted about the young man who collapsed during practice... that wasn't on the NEWS... so in terms of "us" seeing these events... it will really depend on us as individuals paying attention to what's happening right in our backyards... this will not be publicized on MSNBC..LOL
It is difficult. We're working off speculation most of the time and because of that many people are now turning to assuming that all accidents or sudden deaths are indicative of vaccine adverse reactions. It's why in the next post I made a comment that in the absence of knowledge people may turn to hysteria. We really don't know the full scope of what's happening right now, and that means that the zealots will proclaim that all of these incidents are over representative or could be due to other circumstances, and then on this side we may see every little incident has being caused by the vaccine without any evidence to make such a suggestion. In a similar way that we should look and see what news is being reported we should also be careful in falling into a real of histrionics that may cloud our critical thinking and ability to make rational arguments.
Since there is a connection between the mRNA vaccines, myocarditis and young men, along with this series on Catecholamines, if an "assumption" for caution would save 1 life... it would be worth it. Most schools have required vaccination this term... if there is even the slightest of chances that there might be a serious problem then a warning should be issued. I'd rather the young men live before I care whether the vaccine makers look good or not. We are beyond question whether the vaccines cause adverse events as soon as administered.. we are now investigating if they cause long term adverse events.