Fermentation Fun
Fermented vegetables are more than food—they manifest the intelligence of nature and the symbiotic dance between microbes and humans.
Health & Nutrition
Designed To Run
Mixing things up keeps it interesting, and the 5K training complements other activities in our fitness routine.
The Synergy of Walking
Three key systems—joints, lymph, and circulation—operate in perfect harmony through a simple, low-effort habit.
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Design (Divine) Specification
The human body is a much more intelligent design than anything engineered by man.
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It’s Never Too Late…Or Is It?
I’ve always believed that it’s never too late to make changes that will improve your health and fitness. However, mitochondrial function declines with age, contributing to reduced energy production, muscle loss (sarcopenia), and slower recovery. This decline into old age starts gaining traction after age 40, and builds up speed from there (like a snowball
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The Brain – Belly Connection
Fat, Dumb, and Happy;” a movie, an idiom, or the result of human evolution in the 21st century?
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Muscle – The Best Medicine
Skeletal muscle is the largest organ in the human body. Medical books suggest skin is the largest organ and by area it probably is, but by weight muscles are the largest organ. A list of the most vital organs will almost always include the brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys at the top; muscle generally
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Beating the Winter Blues
We took a few weeks off from writing and posting at 3mph.org to celebrate the arrival of Winter. It arrived, and now that it’s here, we aren’t all that happy about it. Everything slows down or hibernates during the Winter. The sun heads off to the Southern Hemisphere, and we can’t get past the idea
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Flu Season
Cold and Flu season kicks off at the end of October and can last until late Spring, with the peak between December and February. Pharmaceutical companies, medical conglomerates, and their partners in the media suggest that every flu season is different and the one step you should take to reduce your risk of serious illness
An Inverted Pyramid
While we were dialing in our macros the other day in “Chronometer,” the nutrition tracking app we both use, we started discussing the new governmental food recommendations released by the current administration. The conversation went to a comment one of us had seen recently about “Lucky Charms” (an extruded wheat grain cereal with tons of
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Got Milk?
The federal government banned the sale of raw milk across state lines about three decades ago. There are presently about a dozen states where you can purchase raw milk at a retail store, and there are another dozen where all unpasteurized dairy products are illegal. A significant number now allow direct-to-consumer sales of raw milk,
It’s What’s for Dinner
We’ve been focused on health, nutrition, and fitness at 3mph.org since the beginning (six years ago). We were interested before; we just didn’t take it as seriously. Once we graduated into our sixties, however, it became apparent that we couldn’t afford only to be interested, we needed to be fully invested and hyper-focused. For the
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Out There
Most of my best-loved activities take place outside. Before the internet, I read numerous magazines and periodicals; many were about doing things outside — one of my favorite magazines used “Outside” as its name. I don’t spend much time reading magazines anymore, the world has been digitalized. Another thing that’s not getting near as much