Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James O'Keefe at TEDxUMKC

Why HN readers recommended it

HN cites it whenever people question whether more exercise is always better, especially extreme endurance running.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

TEDx Talks

Topic

exercise and heart health

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2016–2026

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From the original HN conversations

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• I think about this TED Talk from 2012 a lot.. and he presents some data. It changed some of my goals, and I’m a bit more multi-sport than I used to be. Run for your life! At a comfortable pace, and not too far: James …

• Here's an interesting video if you are an extreme athlete: it is a cardiac researcher and lifelong exerciser who identifies that such exercise patterns damage the heart: [VIDEO]

• On the topic of how overexercise can damage the heart by James OKeefe, a cardiologist and lifetime obsessive runner: Notably he points out that they tested people blood after doing long distance events and found that many of them had chemicals usually found in heart …