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Workout of the Day

Alternating-arm dumbbell row 1-1-1-1-1-1-1-1 reps
(8 reps per arm)

Practice controlled descent from handstands for 15 minutes.

Row 2,000 meters.

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A widely accepted hypothesis suggests coronary atherosclerosis (CA) is initiated by dysfunction of the arterial lumen. Vladomir Subbotin, MD and Ph.D., writes, “[S]talled progress in pharmaceutical treatment gives a good reason to review logical properties of the hypothesis underlining our efforts, and to reconsider whether our perception of coronary atherosclerosis is consistent with facts about the normal and diseased coronary artery.” In this extended review, Subbotin argues coronary atherosclerosis begins not because of dysfunction in the arterial lumen but rather in the vasa vasorum.

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