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PHYSICAL HEALTH SECRET # 5. THE NEW SCIENCE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH THE NEW SCIENCE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH.
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Coming soon. The full release of my new book. Stay tuned.
Today's episode.
Great physical health is simple but not easy to achieve. Strategy, Tactics, and Evidence are your engine room to get there.”
I have an exciting announcement besides physical health secret number 4, soon there will be a new free online TV show with myself and Professor Ulrik Wisloff. Here is a short bio on the Professor, who is from Norway. At the end of today's episode, a special bonus, I have included a few short minutes of an interview I did with Professor Wisloff. Health Secret # 4 is a big one, thanks to the work of this Professor.
"Professor Ulrik Wisløff is a researcher, a professor and an entrepreneur in the field of exercise physiology, and the Head of the Cardiac Exercise Research Group (55 employees) (ntnu.edu/cerg) at the Dept. of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and he is also an Honorary Professor at University of Queensland Australia. He was appointed Professor in 2008 and quickly built up an international, transdisciplinary, and competitive group, as documented by >280 peer-reviewed publications and ~72 000 citations. According to Google Scholar, he figures among the world's 4 most cited scientists in the broad field of "exercise" and the most cited Exercise Physiologist worldwide. Many of his publications demonstrate his group's capacity to translate basic experimental research into clinical use in a short timeframe. He has served as P.I. of several successful national and international collaborations, demonstrating scientific leadership.
Wisløff and colleagues provided the first causative evidence that low exercise capacity per se dramatically increased the risk of heart disease. The study published in Science in 2005, with commentary in Nature Medicine, was ranked as one of the most important papers in the metabolism field at the time. They subsequently showed that high-intensity exercise training was safe and lead to superior improvements in aerobic capacity (Fitness) and cardiac function in heart failure patients (Circulation, 2007). This line of research formed the basis for his research group; with later studies showing optimal results with high-intensity exercise in various lifestyle-related disorders. They revealed that temporal changes in resting heart rate predict death from heart disease in the general population (JAMA, 2011). This led to the creation of a calculator to estimate fitness and so predict death in the general population. The calculator is free and available on the web and all app stores. To date 9.5 million users have used the fitness calculator; they also agreed to share their data in research.
The American Heart Association now advocates the use of our fitness calculator in clinical practice (Circulation, 2016). Wisløff is also the inventor of Personalized Activity Intelligence (P.A.I.); a metric that calculates how much physical activity a person needs to be protected against lifestyle-related disease and premature death. The P.A.I. App is free and available in all app stores. Wisløff's group has translated basic experimental evidence into clinical trials (and patient benefit) within a remarkably short timeframe, with research spanning from molecules to society, and back again. His record of accomplishment demonstrates leadership, capability, and innovation required to perform ground-breaking research. Wisløff is also a committed mentor who actively supports next-generation scientists, and have personally supervised 22 postdoctoral fellows and 38 Ph.D. students, who have gone on to have successful careers in both industry and academia. In February 2020, professor Ulrik Wisloff is was awarded the Norwegian Health Association's (Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen's) Heart Research Award. The price was handed over by the King of Norway."
Coming soon. The full release of my new book. Stay tuned.
Today's episode.
Great physical health is simple but not easy to achieve. Strategy, Tactics, and Evidence are your engine room to get there.”
I have an exciting announcement besides physical health secret number 4, soon there will be a new free online TV show with myself and Professor Ulrik Wisloff. Here is a short bio on the Professor, who is from Norway. At the end of today's episode, a special bonus, I have included a few short minutes of an interview I did with Professor Wisloff. Health Secret # 4 is a big one, thanks to the work of this Professor.
"Professor Ulrik Wisløff is a researcher, a professor and an entrepreneur in the field of exercise physiology, and the Head of the Cardiac Exercise Research Group (55 employees) (ntnu.edu/cerg) at the Dept. of Circulation and Medical Imaging, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, and he is also an Honorary Professor at University of Queensland Australia. He was appointed Professor in 2008 and quickly built up an international, transdisciplinary, and competitive group, as documented by >280 peer-reviewed publications and ~72 000 citations. According to Google Scholar, he figures among the world's 4 most cited scientists in the broad field of "exercise" and the most cited Exercise Physiologist worldwide. Many of his publications demonstrate his group's capacity to translate basic experimental research into clinical use in a short timeframe. He has served as P.I. of several successful national and international collaborations, demonstrating scientific leadership.
Wisløff and colleagues provided the first causative evidence that low exercise capacity per se dramatically increased the risk of heart disease. The study published in Science in 2005, with commentary in Nature Medicine, was ranked as one of the most important papers in the metabolism field at the time. They subsequently showed that high-intensity exercise training was safe and lead to superior improvements in aerobic capacity (Fitness) and cardiac function in heart failure patients (Circulation, 2007). This line of research formed the basis for his research group; with later studies showing optimal results with high-intensity exercise in various lifestyle-related disorders. They revealed that temporal changes in resting heart rate predict death from heart disease in the general population (JAMA, 2011). This led to the creation of a calculator to estimate fitness and so predict death in the general population. The calculator is free and available on the web and all app stores. To date 9.5 million users have used the fitness calculator; they also agreed to share their data in research.
The American Heart Association now advocates the use of our fitness calculator in clinical practice (Circulation, 2016). Wisløff is also the inventor of Personalized Activity Intelligence (P.A.I.); a metric that calculates how much physical activity a person needs to be protected against lifestyle-related disease and premature death. The P.A.I. App is free and available in all app stores. Wisløff's group has translated basic experimental evidence into clinical trials (and patient benefit) within a remarkably short timeframe, with research spanning from molecules to society, and back again. His record of accomplishment demonstrates leadership, capability, and innovation required to perform ground-breaking research. Wisløff is also a committed mentor who actively supports next-generation scientists, and have personally supervised 22 postdoctoral fellows and 38 Ph.D. students, who have gone on to have successful careers in both industry and academia. In February 2020, professor Ulrik Wisloff is was awarded the Norwegian Health Association's (Nasjonalforeningen for folkehelsen's) Heart Research Award. The price was handed over by the King of Norway."
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