A discussion of fitness,nutrition, health, and anything else that comes to mind.
After a glorious nights rest rocked to somnolence by the incoming waves rolling in a short distance from our window, the team arose to whiffs of Blue Mountain coffee, exclusive to Jamaica and rumored to be the richest and most flavorful in the world. The previous night we had made assignments for the day’s clinic and organized our makeshift pharmacy (sans our confiscated ...
This is the first part of a series documenting my recent mission trip to Jamaica. “I’m sorry sir, but without the correct paperwork you have to leave the bags here.” The sweat began trickling down my temple as the Jamaican sun burst from around a cloud and both my temperature and my anger rose. I had just landed in the Montego Bay airport with four bags of medications destined ...
There are some things a dad just shouldn’t do. Now this is not going to be some sexist, misogynistic diatribe about why men should only eat meat and watch football and women should bake pies and pump out kids like a Krispy Kreme assembly line. What I mean is that in the course of everyday life, dads need to exercise restraint and good judgment which, in turn, benefits the entire family. It’s like in those old National ...
As another birthday steamrolls over my consciousness, I find myself searching for that Holy Grail of anti-aging solutions that has proven so elusive. A quick survey of my current understanding of the ant-aging literature revealed that this whole body of work is misnamed. There is no such thing as not aging! It happens! We are all captives of time and space and no matter what ...
I have been doing some research into the literature on omega 3 fatty acids and attention deficit disorder in kids. The literature is pretty clear that this is a metabolic/genetic/environmental/structural problem that runs the gamut as far as presentation of symptoms. Neuroscientists largely agree that there probably is a nutritional component also, with ADD kids almost always ...
Some folks say there is a fine line between ambition and obsession. My wife insists that I cross that line all too often. I have decided to try a new challenge this fall and she is convinced I am either deluded or just plain senile. I like to think I am simply not acting my age. I have decided to do a half marathon marathon. I know on the surface that sounds a bit ...
“There is evidence from multiple studies supporting intake of recommended amounts of DHA and EPA in the form of dietary fish or fish oil supplements lowers triglycerides, reduces the risk of death, heart attack, dangerous abnormal heart rhythms, and strokes in people with known cardiovascular disease, slows the buildup of atherosclerotic plaques ("hardening of the arteries"), ...
When we think of inflammation most of us envision the reddened swollen toe of the gout sufferer or the hot tender knee of the weekend warrior. Indeed these devilish conditions are a direct result of inflammation, yet this natural process impacts much more than over used appendages. For example, many people don’t associate inflammation with heart disease, yet research is conclusive ...
At age fifty-one I ran my 17th marathon faster than I had run a decade earlier, and I owe it to a rare sea mollusk from New Zealand! I am no elite athlete. I am just an average Joe who enjoys distance running, but I, like most runners, thought I would get slower with age. I began running marathons at age 37 with a trip to San Francisco and a race raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. It was a glorious ...
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I- I took the one less traveled by,and that has made all the difference. Robert Frost It began innocently enough, but in the end would have been grounds for divorce in twenty two states! I was speaking at a conference at a beautiful lake side resort and was hoping to get in a run before my morning presentation. The ...
A Prevent DefenseWith the health reform debate blazing forward with the speed of a pregnant turtle, it seems only right to mercilessly show the political hacks where they have fallen off the bus. I know that sounds a bit presumptuous but trust me, I’m a doctor and I don’t just play one on TV. First, what Washington is gobbling up then spewing out is not health care reform but heath coverage and insurance reform. ...
Dr. Eaker is a board certified Obstetrician and Gynecologist in Augusta, Georgia.
When he is not playing with the kids, working, speaking, sleeping, or eating….he is running, having completed sixty five marathons/half marathons on three continents including Chicago, San Francisco, Las Vegas, Rome, and five Boston Marathons.
He is the author of “Holy Hormones”, Approaching PMS and Menopause God’s Way, “Healthy Habits for a Fit Family” from Bethany House Publishers: a guide to fitness in mind, body , and spirit, and most recently “A Woman’s Guide To Hormone Health”, a book on everything menopause.
