Front Page Fitness
Front Page Fitness
Podcast Description
Having trouble staying up-to-date with the newest health and fitness information? Confused or overwhelmed by the constant flood of contradictory health and fitness information? Look no further. In Front Page Fitness, Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple and Dr. Eric Trexler discuss the hot topics dominating the headlines to provide reliable, accessible, and actionable information you can trust.
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Focuses on contemporary health and fitness debates with episodes that cover subjects like alcohol consumption and its effects on health, as well as innovative topics such as unusual health conditions like 'cholesterol hands.'

Having trouble staying up-to-date with the newest health and fitness information? Confused or overwhelmed by the constant flood of contradictory health and fitness information? Look no further. In Front Page Fitness, Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple and Dr. Eric Trexler discuss the hot topics dominating the headlines to provide reliable, accessible, and actionable information you can trust.
In this episode, Drs Eric Trexler and Lauren Colenso-Semple begin with an extended rant about the state of science publishing & communication. From there it's a tour through the week's health headlines which include public debates about potential side effects of hormonal birth control, the ”you're moving wrong” pain-and-posture fearmongering, a confused New York Post piece treating teen creatine use as a gateway drug, and a list of ”parenting mistakes that shorten your kids' lives,” among others.
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Front Page Fitness is proudly presented by the MASS Research Review.
Mostly because Lauren and Eric co-own it.
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Chapters
0:00 – Intro rant about science communication & scientific communication on social media
22:08 – Headlines begin: birth control & the nocebo effect
34:20 – Fear of moving ”wrong”
46:23 – Creatine as a gateway drug
55:11 – 5 ”parenting mistakes that shorten your kids' life”
1:10:53 – Cats, birds & dirty windows
1:13:02 – Wrap-up & sign-off

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