Enjoying Late Fall

Fall in our area is not as spectacular as in other places but it’s nice that it lasts this long. Some trees have lost their leaves by now, but other…

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Loving Fall Riding

I’ve been enjoying multiple long easy rides. After some more research I realized that a long ride is good for my heart as long as the pace is not hard,…

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More on Aortic Valve Leakage

One of the things that keeps my grey cells active is learning all I can about medical conditions I have. So I’ve continued to research paravalvular leakage of the aortic…

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Resistance Training With Cardiac Issues

My last strength workout went really well, I was able to go pretty hard without pushing my heart rate excessively. But afterwards it occurred to me that monitoring heart rate…

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Enjoying New Schedule

I mentioned in my last post that I decided to cut back my amount of exercise to what my Cardiologist actually thinks I’m doing. This works out to 90 minutes…

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Interesting News From Cardiologist

A couple of years ago, my yearly echocardiogram showed a mild amount of leakage around the outside of my aortic valve replacement. This is a fairly common complication. (https://vivitrolabs.com/support/faqs/in-vitro-paravalvular-leakage-assessment-of-cardiac-valve-prostheses/) I…

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More Fun With Deep Research: Endurance Exercise and Longevity

https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/too-much-of-a-good-thing I’ve talked in the past (here and here) about the concept of whether there is a point beyond which exercise becomes too much of a good thing. Since I’m…

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More Fun With Deep Research: Endurance Exercise and Longevity

https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/too-much-of-a-good-thing I’ve talked in the past (here and here) about the concept of whether there is a point beyond which exercise becomes too much of a good thing. Since I’m…

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More Fun With Deep Research: Endurance Exercise and Longevity

https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/too-much-of-a-good-thing I’ve talked in the past (here and here) about the concept of whether there is a point beyond which exercise becomes too much of a good thing. Since I’m…

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More Fun With Deep Research: Endurance Exercise and Longevity

https://giving.massgeneral.org/stories/too-much-of-a-good-thing I’ve talked in the past (here and here) about the concept of whether there is a point beyond which exercise becomes too much of a good thing. Since I’m…

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