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.
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.
" 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
Sep 9, 2022·edited Sep 9, 2022Liked by Modern Discontent
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?"
“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.)
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.
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.
" 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
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?"
“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.)