CU Anschutz In The News

I got stuck on the sadness of this for a few days, and then I decided to try and understand it better. While Hatcher recovered on the couch—doctor’s orders for him were to chill out and not move much or do much—I called the neurology department at the University of Colorado’s Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora. Dr. Christopher M. Filley, the department’s director of behavioral neurology, helped me grasp what might have happened. “From what you told me, your son did not appear to be sufficiently injured to prompt someone on the slope to stop and see how he was doing,” he said.

“You have to try to prevent the loss of muscle and bone, and while cardio will make your heart and lungs fitter, it won’t increase—and might not even prevent—loss of muscle mass,” says Wendy Kohrt, an exercise physiologist and a professor of geriatric medicine at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center. “The research is preliminary, but it suggests that those who do resistance training seem to preserve the level of lean mass they had before menopause.”

You might have noticed some comically high-SPF sunscreens lining drugstore shelves. According to Theresa Pacheco, MD, of University of Colorado School of Medicine, “SPF 15 is good. SPF 30 is better.” Anything higher, she says, doesn’t make much of a difference. An SPF 15 sunscreen will block about 93 percent of UVB rays, compared to 97 percent for SPF 30 and 98 percent for SPF 50.