So what do you do instead to get strong?

Word! He knows plenty of such women. That could have helped A LOT.

Oh yes, this made me cringe because he actually does include some useful stuff in the first parts of this list (all anecdotal of course). Stuff like "Women have good “reactive/elastic strength” or stretch-shortening cycle efficiency, but they have poor “starting strength” – for example if they start a deadlift or…

I hear you. My dad, who has Parkinson's, does a little weight training with dumbbells, but I'm afraid he's doing the exact same thing day-in and day-out, instead of trying to push himself. I can tell it's not doing much for him. I think he's worried that he's going to hurt himself if he does more. I wish he would talk…

Or even fewer reps. I do sets of 5 reps and go really heavy. To truly find out if you're lifting heavy enough, you can always find your one-rep maximum: keep adding weight to the bar in increments of 10 pounds, then 5 pounds, until you find the heaviest weight you can lift once with good form. That's your one-rep max.…

Dayum, this might have saved my first marriage. Thanks for nothing, Christian grade school, where Mommy and Daddy loved each other very much.

;-)

More than milk or calcium supplements, weight training —- with heavy weights, mind —- will do wonders for us as we age, will stave off osteoporosis and stimulate human growth factor in the muscles. Osteoporosis may not seem like a huge problem, especially compared to cancer or diabetes, but it's an insidious sign of…

EXACTLY. As long as the abstract is specific enough for what you want.

Relieved to know I'm not alone, actually. Hail to the skimmers of abstracts!

This is exactly right, but it's SO HARD to achieve. Here, Pope has a little girl she knows, whom she wants to protect. The immediate, effective shortcut is to change what you can in your own environment, such as telling her to dress her age, versus teaching untold millions of anonymous boys not to rape. Changing boy…

If you just quickly GLANCE at the full cover, it looks like Michelle's hand is DIRECTLY on Jill's knee. "Oh-la-la!" I said to myself.

Something tells me it's not unlike a blue tuxedo. Feminine Pink FTW!

In addition to the above "old friends," we have really completely eradicated parasitic worms from our environment. Rook (last author) is one of the foremost guys investigating the reintroduction of helminths, with interesting results: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19120493

Also, this website really helped me out when I first started researching it: http://www.gutsense.org/ I realized maybe I DIDN'T have to live this way.

I hear you. I moved in with my boyfriend last November, and he's seen me on the bathroom floor a few times in cramped pain. He's always been very sympathetic. I think it shocked him how debilitating it could be.

Yep. When I first started researching, this website blew my mind: http://www.gutsense.org/

My little sister is also an RN! She has a bumper sticker: "I got into nursing for the smells."

I suppose everyone is different, but if you're interested in trying it, I would get a high-quality magnesium, like magnesium citrate or gluconate (not mag oxide, that's not very bio-available) and start on 200 mg. It will probably take a few weeks to work regularly. In hospitals, mag citrate is used regularly for…

Hell no, I won't go! ...