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I'm a cardiologist.
Back against the kitchen wall, knees bent, two minutes. Rest. Four times.
In a 100-person randomized trial, doing that 3 days a week for 4 weeks lowered systolic pressure about 9 points more than in people who didn't.
Save this one.
Four weeks of wall squats reduced systolic blood pressure by nearly 10 points in adults with high blood pressure.
Researchers then compared continuing three sessions weekly with reducing to two, one, or none for another month. Systolic pressure remained roughly 7 mmHg below starting levels in the once- and twice-weekly groups. Continuing three sessions weekly produced the greatest reduction of about 14 mmHg. In those who stopped completely, blood pressure moved back toward baseline.
This fits with a previous analysis of randomized trials that identified isometric exercise, which involves holding a muscle contraction, as an effective way to lower resting blood pressure.
What interests me is the practical question - how much of an exercise benefit can we preserve when we temporarily have less time? This study suggests that reducing the frequency can retain part of the benefit for up to a month.
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There are white nationalist hate speech comics that didn’t even in their wildest predictions predict something this heinous.
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There are lots of YouTube videos of single women in their 40s and 50s living in their cars and pretending to love it. Some of them have vans, and they have ‘kitchens’ in the back. Usually they have a small dog.
Fascinating to watch. But this is pretty grim. Downward mobility.
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There are four kinds of Asian: Rice, Mountain, Jungle and Horse
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Somebody just found an entire ruin complex on Google Earth that nobody has ever recorded. 🤯
Aaron Hynes spotted it in the Peruvian Andes, 200km southeast of Trujillo at over 13,000 feet.
Dozens of buildings, and a semi-buried structure more than 100 feet long he's calling the Arena.
There is no survey, excavation, or record of anyone walking it. It has just been sitting up there.
This is what I mean when I say there is SO MUCH still out there.
Not a theory, but an actual site, found by someone bothering to look at ground nobody had checked.
He's going in December for the first boots on the ground documentation and needs help to make it happen.
This is the kind of work that matters.
If you can help support this excavation, the link is commented below 👇
@Megalithicmyste
