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The Slow and Low Exercise Elite Athletes Swear By

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Publish DateFebruary 22, 2024

Dr. Iñigo San Millán, a former competitive cyclist and assistant professor at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, started exploring the idea that mitochondrial function could be key to peak performance almost three decades ago. He has applied his findings to the training routines of professional athletes, including two-time Tour de France winner Tadej Pogačar. “Mitochondria are stimulated by exercise,” he says. “I wanted to see if that stimulation varied depending on intensity.”

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Teen Girls’ Poor Diets Are Worrying Doctors

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Publish DateMay 07, 2021

Part of the risk is behavioral: Children pick up eating habits from their parents. Also, being exposed to deficits of some nutrients and excess calories in utero—particularly from fats and carbohydrates—can cause changes in gene expression that “trigger all sorts of pathogenic pathways including promoting obesity,” says Dana Dabelea, a professor of epidemiology and pediatrics at the Colorado School of Public Health, Anschutz Medical Campus. These epigenetic changes can affect the development of children’s fat tissue and when they feel full, she says.

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Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Turn Toward Testing Children

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Publish DateDecember 28, 2020

“For most vaccines there is not much of a reason to think that if they are safe in adults, they wouldn’t be safe in children,” said Sean O’Leary, a professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and vice chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics’ committee on infectious diseases.

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Trump’s Covid-19 Treatment Seeks to Boost Immune Response

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Publish DateOctober 09, 2020

But their immune systems are another important factor, researchers say. “When you challenge a body with a virus or a vaccine, there’s just not the vigorous response,” said Cari Levy, a geriatrician who is a professor at the University of Colorado [School of Medicine].

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Medical schools are pushed to train doctors for climate change

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Publish DateAugust 07, 2019

The Yale School of Medicine offers a continuing medical education certificate in climate change and health, and the University of Colorado Department of Emergency Medicine now offers a fellowship for physicians on climate change and health policy.

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