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[GURGLETROUSERS]

P.S. If you claim medical expertise in this subject, please cite the research paper you will have published, along with peer review, and the extensive testing on which your claim is based.

[wynsurfer]

I geues Dean Karnazes is doomed! remember him? He used to be a windsurfer, maybe he still is. Quite an amazing fellow! He ran 350 miles non stop for over 3 days with no sleep! Wonder it didn't kill him. Check it out! http://www.ultramarathonman.com/web/about/bio.shtml

[isobars]

You're putting words (e.g., ALL, fatal, killing themselves) in my mouth BIGTIME and making some really bad assumptions*. I have studied WAY over a thousand peer-reviewed medical and exercise physiology studies and studied at LEAST 100 authoritative books on those topics, each with scores to hundreds of published references. Several oncologists have told me I know more about my cancers than most doctors and many oncologists. My very LIFE, in the near term, depends on the quality and thoroughness of my medical literature research.

OF COURSE my "knowledge of such matters comes from reading other people's research." That's all that counts to me and ESPECIALLY to physicians, except for fine tuning and extensive medical testing to see where on the bell curves an individual lies. You're citing your own personal anecdotal experience and those of a few outliers as proof the world's experts are wrong? How naive and arrogant is that?

My nutrition training exceeds that of medical schools MANY thousandfold. Many of the researchers I study are among the foremost in their field. The instructors at my gym -- several of whom have BS/MS degrees in sports and exercise physiology -- constantly tell me I not only work harder than any other gym patron but have taught them some things they didn't know about training. They specifically say I'm right about my training methods, but they don't routinely teach them unless requested because they are too intense for most people.

* OF COURSE "There are always disagreements in such matters (opposite claims)" ... that's what the Cochrane Collaboration ... the gold standard source the world's more enlightened physicians use to reconcile such controversies ... is for. My use of it just makes your "therefore you have chosen to believe that which you constantly state, and ignore any research claims to the contrary" look plain stupid.

Have you had your coronary, thoracic, and carotid arteries checked by MRIs, CTs, ultrasound? Do you have records of many scores of biochemical markers assayed to guide your doctors and yourself in preventing and treating your most likely health threats? Or are you just counting on your resting pulse rate and recovery time to carry you through to your projected life expectancy? (Mine's 103, except for this frigging cancer thing.) Speaking of that, I wouldn't even know I had cancer except for scans/procedures/tests such as those. Tip: by the time most terminal major diseases produce symptoms, we're phuct. We're WAY better off preventing them or catching them early enough for curative treatment, that usually requires testing, and testing and treatment are based on one thing: large-scale evidence-based research that saves millions of lives every year.

We're done here.

[isobars]

[GURGLETROUSERS]

Indeed done here!

[KGB-NP]

[MalibuGuru]

My dear mother lived a lifestyle of party, drink, eat, smoke and party that would kill the average man by 40. She almost made 90.

[KGB-NP]

[isobars]

My favorite aunt wasn't just a non-smoker; she was a lifelong, outspoken ANTI-smoker. It took her throat cancer two horrible years to kill her in the prime of her middle ages.

Bell curve.

[GURGLETROUSERS]

A telling thing to me about the random nature of life, and ultimate purposeless point of it, is to see people who were once competent and commanding in life struck down, like a cruel joke, by rapidly spreading terminal cancer. Having watched a despairing friend sink physically and mentally (losing his mind ) in such a short space of time, is enough to sicken anybody.

I once had a friend who married a born again Christian (I think she called herself) who excitedly, told me how God had spoken to him, as he was getting ready to go to church. He'd dropped one of his contact lenses and couldn't find it, but then saw it balancing on the edge of a chair. In all seriousness, he claimed God had caused it to balance there because God had wanted him to go to church!!!

Of one thousand reasons for denying the intervention in human affairs of any kind of divinity, He, and cancer, would top the list!