What's on your bicycling "Wish List?"

Hey Dan, I too was (and continue to be) skeptical, though I did enough study to find the problems associated with hormone therapy have been related to synthetic ones vs. the bio-identical variety.

A doctor here in the Seattle area (actually Tacoma, WA) runs the Tahoma Clinic, an extremely well respected practice that is mostly alternative approach. The Dr., Jonathan Wright, MD, is also an naturopath and his offices were once raided by the FDA, guns drawn and all. He was guilty of performing vitamin B injections (Oh the horror!). When I learned he was an advocate of BIHT and had been using same for almost 20 years it reduced my anxiety enough to consider it. I am glad I did. Backing up a decade in terms of how I feel has been most welcomed.

And the fact there is frequent blood work and numerous follow up visits with the Doc also gives me confidence. The body of research is over 20 years old now, and from what I've learned the risks are few compared to the rewards, and without any of those crazy disclaimers you hear on commercials regarding side effects.

But, you never really know?
 
RedSectorA said:
No riding outside for me today, we hit a high of -25 Celsius.
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Dan, we are hovering between +8° and +16° Celsius here on the south Vancouver Island of British Columbia, Canada. :)
...Pretty much steady like that for the last two weeks or more (last week we hit +20° Celsius one day). ...Happy riding! :derf::D

P.S. We need a small bicycle emoticon (smiley).

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* I've read stories of tons of snow and freezing cold in all the East of the USA and Canada.
...Plus power shortages here and there because the heavy weight of snow and ice on tree branches snapping and falling on electrical power cables, and transformers exploding!

Here we have tons of whales just having fun playing in the warm waters of the Pacific ocean. :whalesmiley:

Be good. :)

P.P.S. By the way, my thermometer doesn't even go that low (-20° Celsius is the lower limit).
And +50° Celsius is its upper limit. ...My thermometer was made in the Sahara desert; Morocco of North Africa.
 
RedSectorA said:
Gun drawn to raid a clinic for vitamin C injections,LMFAO. Tax payers money put to good use
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Dan, put the gun down. Just try these... :D

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Doug, been using off and on something similar called Redoxon. Does work wonders when feeling the winter blues.

Anyways tomorrow I am heading to my family physician to get a prescription for an anti inflammatory drug to rid myself of my chronic muscle pains I have had the past few months. The fun of growing old........
 
Bobvin said:
Hey Dan, I too was (and continue to be) skeptical, though I did enough study to find the problems associated with hormone therapy have been related to synthetic ones vs. the bio-identical variety.

A doctor here in the Seattle area (actually Tacoma, WA) runs the Tahoma Clinic, an extremely well respected practice that is mostly alternative approach. The Dr., Jonathan Wright, MD, is also an naturopath and his offices were once raided by the FDA, guns drawn and all. He was guilty of performing vitamin B injections (Oh the horror!). When I learned he was an advocate of BIHT and had been using same for almost 20 years it reduced my anxiety enough to consider it. I am glad I did. Backing up a decade in terms of how I feel has been most welcomed.

And the fact there is frequent blood work and numerous follow up visits with the Doc also gives me confidence. The body of research is over 20 years old now, and from what I've learned the risks are few compared to the rewards, and without any of those crazy disclaimers you hear on commercials regarding side effects.

But, you never really know?
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You are right Bob, who really knows! I'm just not ready to try it. Anyways as I race in the summer I'm probably not allowed to do hormone therapy (then again I honestly don't know).
 
Wisdom my friend, wisdom. We older guys always forget that, insofar as youth is concerned it partly resides in our brain, stimulate it and you can feel young again. Actually this is why I still race bikes, I'm with a younger crowd that are pushing me above my normal limits and that makes me feel younger.

Then what I lack in strength I make up in experience.
 
RedSectorA said:
Wisdom my friend, wisdom. We older guys always forget that, insofar as youth is concerned it partly resides in our brain, stimulate it and you can feel young again. Actually this is why I still race bikes, I'm with a younger crowd that are pushing me above my normal limits and that makes me feel younger.

Then what I lack in strength I make up in experience.
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Dan, last summer I entered the WA state time trial championships just to put a gauge on my fitness. In the geezer category, of course, lumped in with anyone over 50. (Amateurs, ex-pros, seasoned triathletes, etc.) The fellow who won that category also beat everyone in the 34-50 crowd, and was only surpassed by 6 younger cyclists in the 20 sumpthun-34 crowd. I forget his actual time but it was in the neighborhood of 45 kph over 40k.

I didn't get his bio, but those seem like juiced numbers for a +50 guy. I wouldn't mind turning a sub 1-hour TT!

And... Aches and pains are much less part of my day since I started BHIT. Damn expensive though (said the guy with the hi-end audio gear!)
 
Bobvin said:
Dan, last summer I entered the WA state time trial championships just to put a gauge on my fitness. In the geezer category, of course, lumped in with anyone over 50. (Amateurs, ex-pros, seasoned triathletes, etc.) The fellow who won that category also beat everyone in the 34-50 crowd, and was only surpassed by 6 younger cyclists in the 20 sumpthun-34 crowd. I forget his actual time but it was in the neighborhood of 45 kph over 40k.

I didn't get his bio, but those seem like juiced numbers for a +50 guy. I wouldn't mind turning a sub 1-hour TT!

And... Aches and pains are much less part of my day since I started BHIT. Damn expensive though (said the guy with the hi-end audio gear!)
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Race as a Cat 4 in the Tour of the Battenkill last year, in the last hill at marker 60 (ish) I was passed by the leaders of the Cat 5 race. The hill is steep at around 18 percent incline, I'm huffing and puffing while going through the motion, these two guys passed me at the double my speed while chit-chatting and showing no sign of strain. It's a fricken 18 percent hill we are talking about. The chase group came about 2 minutes down, 10 guys all redlining to try to pick up the leaders. If you ask me I will say the leaders were juiced up big time. It's unfortunate for anybody to risk their life just to win a race.

A few years back they caught a few guys juicing up in the local amateur circuit, it's not as if they will have a big payoff out of this. Human nature I guess!
 
RedSectorA said:
Read it Myles? Worth reading? I like these kind of books.
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Am reading and the subject of neuroplasticity is of great interest to me. In part Dodge like Levitan in This is Your Brain on Music, dispels the ages old held notion of brain localization, left brain, right brain and specific centers controlling specific actions. In its place is a more modern look at primary and secondary neural pathways in the brain and how to recruit secondary pathways to overcome brain trauma, loss of certain senses, stroke, etc. so no matter how old we are, it's always possible to affect changes to the brain.
 
Myles B. Astor said:
Am reading and the subject of neuroplasticity is of great interest to me. In part Dodge like Levitan in This is Your Brain on Music, dispels the ages old held notion of brain localization, left brain, right brain and specific centers controlling specific actions. In its place is a more modern look at primary and secondary neural pathways in the brain and how to recruit secondary pathways to overcome brain trauma, loss of certain senses, stroke, etc. so no matter how old we are, it's always possible to affect changes to the brain.
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Thanks, I guess I will put in my next amazon purchase.
 
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