Episode #291: Stroke and Lifting During Strok...

How much resistance training do you actually need, and is there a point where more stops helping? We trace the "lift weights twice a week" recommendation back to the 1989 study it came from, which found that three days beat two, and to the citation loop that turned it into a guid ...  Show more

Nearly every warning you've heard about lifting weights was written down before anybody checked it. We trace where those warnings came from, starting with a Harvard student in 1854 and ending with a curve on a graph that's being used today to argue you can lift too much.Along the ...  Show more

Send us Fan MailThis week, Rob and Zach will be teaching you everything you need to know about Strokes. This will be a special episode to raise awareness for strokes during the month of May, which is #StrokeMonthDuring this episode we are going to be using our medical notes on ac ...  Show more

Oxygen therapy in stroke, physical activity, hospital rankings, MRI labeling of cardiac devices, and PFO closure are discussed in this week's podcast. 

In this episode I cover stroke.

If you want to follow along with written notes on stroke go to https://zerotofinals.com/medicine/neurology/stroke/ or the neurology section in the Zero to Finals medicine ...

Description In the first half of this episode, we cover our article of the week which comes from the New England Journal of Medicine and is entitled “Liberal or Restrictive Transfusion Strategy in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury”. In the second half, we begin with a discussi ...  Show more