The Health Lab Blog

It sounds cool and might even sell memberships at your local gym but is there actually anything to the belief that stronger people are harder to kill? To answer this question we are going to look at a pretty powerful prospective population study of 500,000 men and women over the course of 10 years. What they looked at was grip strength of all individuals in comparison to the incidence of and mortality from: -cardiovascular disease -all respiratory disease -chronic obstruct

The Problem Everyone, every moment of their day has choices to make. Our society is pulled by the bright lights of instant gratification and short term satisfaction. Typically, these quick rewards that are chosen by the majority of people don’t maintain health in the long term. In part, what makes the journey of health so difficult, is the fact that most are born with it. It is our baseline of life and therefore we undervalue it, until it is altered. Here at The Health Lab, w

If increased strength is correlated with reduced risk of injury, cancer, diabetes, heart disease and even risk of death, then how in the world do we get stronger? Isn’t Everyone Strengthening? Strength training is something that everyone believes they are doing if they moved their body with extra weight on it. To anyone who is exercising, I would applaud them for taking the time to try to make their body more resilient. We are all busy people, so taking some time out of the

We are excited for the vision going forward and want to take this opportunity to show you what we believe the road forward looks like.

What is sleep consistency and is it important? If so what are some ways we can improve it.