General Practitioners

• Medical Weight Loss
  We'll look at my weight management approach and then see what the Harvard Health Letter (January 2024) has to say about the newly approved anti-obesity drugs.
• Nutritional Counseling
  But the findings’ implications for public health, diet and nutrition are limited for the moment because the study gives “a 30,000-foot view of energy metabolism,” said Dr. Samuel Klein, who was not involved in the study and is director of the Center for Human Nutrition at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. He added, “I don’t think you can make any new clinical statements” for an individual. When it comes to weight gain, he says, the issue is the same as it has always been: People are eating more calories than they are burning.
• Primary Care
  She begins by telling how her experience as a primary care doctor led her to pursue a career studying the “immense barrier to healthy aging.”
• Family Practice
  Dr. Daniel Vigil, a sports medicine doctor and professor of family medicine at UCLA, explained to Healthline in a down-home way why these studies are complementary: “One is ‘how can we explore ways to keep our bodies from aging?’ while the other one is ‘I don’t want to have a heart attack, the number one cause of death, I don’t want cardiovascular disease. What can I do to decrease my risk for that?’ ”
• Emergency Care
  Sent to the emergency room of Albuquerque’s Presbyterian Hospital with what was found to be a total blockage of my large colon. The blockage was determined to be colon cancer.
• Immunizations
  To test exercise and immune function, many studies have used vaccines. Vaccines are one of the best ways to see how the immune system works because it tests the combined ability of many different immune cells to coordinate and produce antibodies. Research administering vaccines after both intense exercise and marathon running shows that antibody responses are not suppressed. Elite athletes who train regularly have higher antibody responses to vaccination than people who do not exercise.

Internists

• Colon Cancer
  I was, however, actively training to be build my body--an activity that was interrupted when the colon cancer was discovered.
• Lung Cancer
  The researcher concluded: Muscle-strengthening activities were inversely associated with the risk of all-cause mortality and major non-communicable diseases including CVD, total cancer, diabetes and lung cancer; however, the influence of a higher volume of muscle-strengthening activities on all-cause mortality, CVD and total cancer is unclear when considering the observed J-shaped associations.

Neurologists

• Neurology
  A long-term study of Norwegian military recruits, for example, found that their aerobic fitness at age 18 was highly predictive of their risk of dementia in old age. And Swedish women who were highly fit in middle age had an eight times lower risk of dementia over the next 44 years than women of only moderate fitness, researchers reported in 2018 in Neurology.

Psychiatrists

• Depression
• Mental Health
  It is not just his realization of how good it feels physically, he completely embraces the huge impact it has on his mental health.
• Psychiatry
  Commenting on the study for Medscape Medical News, Robert Roca, MD, a professor on geriatric psychiatry, took up that line of inquiry.

Endocrinologist

• Diabetes Care

Radiologist

• Ultrasound
  Ten rep maximum was measured at the beginning and end of the study for the bench press, lat pulldown, leg press, and deadlift. Muscle thickness was measured using ultrasound.
• MRI
  Another confounding factor is how muscle hypertrophy is measured, in vivo (computed tomography [CT], magnetic resonance imaging [MRI], and ultrasound) or in vitro (muscle biopsy). Both provide useful but different information. Biopsies tell more about individual components, such as fiber type, individual fiber area, mitochondrial content, enzyme expression, and capillarisation. The in vivo methods tell more about whole-muscle change. Some studies use one method or the other, while other studies combine the two methods. The result is a mishmash of information, some favoring HL and others LL. Some trainers, of course, are more interested in whole muscle changes irrespective of whether contractile or non-contractile components increase, while others have more performance-specific goals.
• Computed Tomography
  ( Clarence: Historic references to fasting have little relevance in the age of gene profiling, computed tomography, and statins. "To eat when you are sick, is to feed your illness," as Hippocrates and
• Chemotherapy
  Dr. Valter Longo, PhD, Professor of Biogerontology at the USC Davis School of Gerontology and director of the USC Longevity Institute--who created the fast mimicking diet--has established through his research that not only will fasting improve health markers, it makes cancer cells easier to kill with chemotherapy and mitigates patient's side effects from the chemo.

Surgeons

• Hip Replacement

Dermatologists

• Burns

Physical Therapists

• Sports Medicine
  Studies from JAMA and from the British Journal of Sports Medicine found that weekend training is associated with a lower risk of all-cause mortality. The British study also found a defined benefit of muscle-strengthening exercise independent of aerobic activities, followed by a gradual decrease. More may not be better.
• Physical Therapy
  During physical therapy I was told that my ACL recovery went faster than expected due to me being strong and in great shape.
• Ankle Sprain
  I hope and trust that our visitors will find the Harvard Health Letter strategies for avoiding ankle sprain as interesting and helpful as I have. That and bodybuilding are a powerful twosome.

Podiatrists

• Ankle Sprain