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Is Testosterone Replacement Causing Heart Attacks?

The days of handing out the same testosterone dose with an estrogen blocker for everyone are over.  Today, we’re developing new multifactorial programs using nutrition and hormone replacement.  The goal is to get away from treating testosterone in isolation.  Despite the ads you’ve been undoubtedly seeing everywhere, there is more to longevity than testosterone alone. […]
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The Good Psychopath

All my articles are somewhat autobiographical; this one is even more so.  My hope is that it helps you understand someone in your life, or at least appreciate the trauma certain professionals are exposed to in their line of work.  Our fascination with psychopaths goes back to the first documented serial killer, H. H. Holmes, […]
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How to Keep Your Ass Off a Bed Pan

Let me tell you what scares the shit out of me.  Ready for this?  It’s watching what happens to people in nursing homes.  In the 1980s, part of my job was to transport the elderly to nursing homes.  My partner and I would arrive at their home with a stretcher, navigate around the furniture and […]
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Transgender Hormones: Questions No One Is Asking

If you follow my YouTube channel, you know education and saving lives is what Scala Precision Heath is about.  Bear with me as I recount these WTF moments in my life.  You’ll connect the dots in a minute. When my extremely fit 35-year-old endurance athlete and training partner had a heart attack . . . […]
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Postpartum Depression & Executive Women

I’ve talked many women dealing with depression off the ledge.  Going into a high-level intervention I never know what to expect.  I must meet each woman where she is at that time.  It’s like a white-water raft ride through her neurological architecture, and to me it’s as physically draining as any triathlon. Navigating depression with […]
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Dorian Yates vs. DVT

A few months ago, I answered my phone and heard, “Russ, this is Dorian Yates, not sure if you know who I am.” Yes, six-time Mr. Olympia Dorian Yates.   “Hello, Dorian, yes, I know who you are.  How’s it going?” “I just saw your video on what’s killing bodybuilders on YouTube.  I also saw […]
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Cancer: The Immortal Serial Killer

Imagine your phone rings and it’s your doctor’s office.  The nurse on the other end says your test results have come back positive, you have cancer!  There’s a long silence, then the nurse says, “We have an opening in three weeks for you to meet with the doctor.  Can I schedule you?” You say yes, […]
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Wolves and Sheep

After graduating from the police academy and being placed on the SWAT team as a paramedic, I had to ask the question, “After 15 years as a life saver, can I take a life?”  Every year, there was a SWAT competition where our team would compete with other teams from around the US in shooting, […]
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