Weekly Wisdom Episode 6 Sept 5th 2025

Why We Get Sick: Connecting Metabolic Health to Chronic Disease

As Max Planck said: “Science progresses one funeral at a time.”

Medical science will not completely grasp or address the health implications of metabolic disease until the old pharmaceutical interventionist model of health management is replaced by the via negativa principle of improving health by removing or avoiding harmful interventions, rather than adding more treatments. When will we stop dying of diseases associated with metabolic disorders? When the old guard dies out.

Speaking of Diseases Related to Metabolic Derangement:

Creatine Monohydrate Pilot in Alzheimer's: Feasibility, Brain Creatine, and Cognition

https://alz-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/trc2.70101

And What About Creatine for Women’s Health?

1) Creatine, Does it Work?

2) Creatine for cognitive benefits

Why Are Your Hamstrings Tight?

If stretching doesn’t seem to help your tight hamstrings, this may be why.

Single Arm KB Thruster

I agree that single arm KB thrusters are potent and underutilized, I have begun subbing it in on a regular rotation.

How Much Do You Need to Retire

This was interesting and empowering and is not something I have heard commonly discussed.

Here’s a Bit of Fun

Ever wonder about the various flavours of strength sport. Weightlifting, Powerlifting, Strongman, here they all are characterized. I especially appreciated the depiction of the CrossFitter in typical CrossFit workout attire!