Author: Kevin Bae
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Is there an age where progressive overload in strength training stops?
Does progressive overload have a hard age limit? Probably not, but a decade-long plateau and a shoulder injury complicate the answer.
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What is the Moderate Method?
Episode one recaps how skipping meals, discovering intermittent fasting, trying keto, and retiring early shaped Kevin’s moderate approach to diet and exercise.
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Employers Passing on the Cost of Outsourcing Self-Control
The rise of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs has created a problem that many employers never anticipated. GLP-1s have evolved into a major expense for corporate health plans. According to a recent Wall Street Journal article, large employers across the country are scaling back coverage, adding restrictions, or eliminating benefits for weight-loss use altogether. Demand has exploded,…
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Exercise Overpowers Junk Food Depression
A new study from University College Cork, led by Professor Yvonne Nolan and published October 21, 2025, in Brain Medicine, purports to show exercise can reduce depression-like behaviors caused by a high-fat, high-sugar Western diet. Researchers fed male rats either a healthy diet or a high-fat, high-sugar “cafeteria diet” for seven weeks. Half of each…
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Why 80% of Chronic Disease Is Lifestyle-Driven — and How to Tackle the Other 20%
A cardiologist recently reminded his audience that more than 80% of chronic disease—heart disease, diabetes, cognitive decline, and even many cancers—stems from lifestyle. Diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management aren’t side notes to medicine. They are medicine. That number sounds both liberating and intimidating. If so much of our health depends on daily choices, are…
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Vinegar instead of laundry detergent?
Dr. Paul Saladino is one of my go-to guys for extreme living. He does things that are the antithesis of moderation. I almost use his advice as a divining rod to know what not to do. His latest advice is to replace your laundry detergent with white vinegar. It seems like a silly idea to…
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BMI is too inaccurate for individual use
I’ve always considered BMI (Body Mass Index) an inaccurate measurement for assessing a person’s weight. I remember seeing a news report back in the 1990s that illustrated the flaw in this measurement by using Michael Jordan as an example. At the peak of his career, Jordan weighed about 216 lbs, and his height is widely…
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Moderate Method exercise routine
I don’t have a goal to lose weight or build big muscles. If I do have workout goals, they would be to maintain muscle tone and to be able to walk and run for at least the next few decades. I’m 57 at the moment, so that means I want to be mobile until I’m…
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Is using aluminum foil bad for your health?
Paul Saladino, MD, tweeted today about the dangers of aluminum foil. In 48 seconds, he claims that using it to cook or store your food is bad for your health. The key quote for me is, “People who cook with aluminum foil have up to two times higher levels of aluminum in their blood than…