Fluent Wellness

It’s often said the human body should come with an owner’s manual and now we are living even longer without these manuals, facing more challenges along the way. Challenges like chronic illness, recurrent injuries, obesity, new infections and medical misinformation on and around all the above.

Fluent Wellness, like our podcast My Body Odyssey, presents the sharpest science-based insights for a general interest audience on a wide range of wellness topics– exercise and diet, mindfulness and stress management, lifestyle choices that impact our quantity and quality of life. But all presented without the commercial hype around so much health and wellness content.

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Cycling & Sweating Sue: Two Decades Outriding Metastatic Breast Cancer 

Cycling & Sweating Sue: Two Decades Outriding Metastatic Breast Cancer  Completing the 200-mile Pan Mass Challenge (PMC) bike ride every year for two decades would be an accomplishment for anyone; but it’s particularly remarkable in the case of Cycling Sue, who has ridden 10 of those 20 years with metastatic breast cancer. “I’ve had many…
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Generational Gene: Ups and Downs of Weight Loss & the Stark Risk of Cancer 

Generational Gene: Ups and Downs of Weight Loss & the Stark Risk of Cancer  In this season two episode, Generational Gene details the serious risk of colon cancer and his two pronged approach of cycling and weight loss against three related medical issues– obesity, diabetes, and cancer, all of which run in his family.  This…
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Four Body Odysseys On Two & Three Wheels: Cycling the 20th Maine Lighthouse Ride

Four Body Odysseys On Two & Three Wheels: Cycling the 20th Maine Lighthouse Ride My Body Odyssey rode along the 20th Annual Maine Lighthouse Ride  this year, interviewing 4 protagonists who faced steep uphill challenges to even get to the starting line of this scenic ride. Rebecca, a yoga teacher in her early sixties, has…
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Grit, Gravel & Commitment: Cycling with Larry at the Maine Lighthouse Ride

Grit, Gravel & Commitment: Cycling with Larry at the Maine Lighthouse Ride My Body Odyssey rode along with Larry Langmore on the 40 mile option of the 20th Annual Maine Lighthouse Ride this year, a benefit for the Eastern Trail Association that attracts 800 riders from near and far.   40 miles is a good long…
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Three Passionate Odysseys from the 51st Falmouth Road Race: On Foot, Wheels & Crutches

Three Passionate Odysseys from the 51st Falmouth Road Race: On Foot, Wheels & Crutches My Body Odyssey attended the 51st  Falmouth Road Race– the  local, 7-mile pub crawl that quickly evolved into a major, international event with 75,000 spectators and 10,000 runners annually. Our episode features three participants at this year’s event, including the only runner…
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My Expert Odyssey: Dr. D.J. Kennedy On back Pain & Life As a Weightlifting Event

My Expert Odyssey: Dr. D.J. Kennedy on Life As a weightlifting event As a former competitive weightlifter, strength coach, and now Chair of Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine at Vanderbilt Medical School, Dr. D.J. Kennedy specializes in the diagnosis and treatment of back issues that nearly all of us experience- including chronic back pain. “The numbers…
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Primal Posture for Modern Pain? The Gokhale Method of Walking, Sitting & Bending

Primal Posture for Modern Pain? The Gokhale Method of Walking, Sitting & Bending Three decades ago, Esther Gokhale created the Gokhale Method to apply primal posture to modern pain. Gokhale emphasized small improvements in everyday movements to prevent and heal back pain and musculoskeletal damage. Now, more than 20,000 people have learned to walk, sit,…
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Rehab Without Fatigue? The Great Challenges of Long COVID Treatment

Rehab Without Fatigue? The Great Challenges of Long COVID Treatment Featuring Dr. David Putrino Long COVID can feel like a lifetime sentence — yet scientists are developing more effective treatments for these deeply debilitating cases. Dr. David Putrino, Director of Rehabilitation Innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System, is a major contributor to this effort….
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Who Am I With Long COVID?

Who Am I With Long COVID? The Challenge to Health, Wealth & Identity “Who am I with Long COVID?” When Kaelyn Lynch caught COVID-19, she was a multimedia journalist, filmmaker, mountain climber, weightlifter, and roller derby enthusiast. That changed when Long COVID crashed into her life. After two back-to-back COVID infections, she had frightening symptoms…
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The Steep Climbs of Chronic Lyme: Nordic Skier Siri Waxes, Wanes & Wins

The Steep Climbs of Chronic Lyme: Nordic Skier Siri Waxes, Wanes & Wins Like a growing number of Americans, you discover the bull’s-eye rash around a tick bite. But you get to the doctor quickly, receive a diagnosis of Lyme disease, and complete the standard course of antibiotics. So everything will be fine, right?  Not…
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My Expert Odyssey Part 2

My Expert Odyssey Part 2: Scoliosis, Pre-Diabetes, Postpartum, & Cancer In this second of two holiday bonus episodes, we again get a bit more personal with season one expert guests whose own experiences have inspired and informed their professional pursuits – “My Expert Odyssey” times four.  First off, Dr. Mark Stoutenberg of Temple University’s Department…
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My Expert Odyssey Part 1

My Expert Odyssey Part 1: Depression, Diabetes & Trauma (Bonus Episode) What leads someone on a path to becoming a noted researcher on the benefits of exercise for depression or diabetes? Or a coach in the relatively new sport of para rowing?  Not surprisingly, personal experience can play a huge role in lighting those pathways….
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Generational Gene

Generational Gene: Cycling for Diabetes Prevention Our protagonist in this episode, Generational Gene, may at first seem like a special case. A middle-aged school superintendent with a father and grandfather who’ve contracted Type 2 diabetes later in life, Gene seems at higher-than-average risk to develop the condition, as well.  But in fact Gene is very…
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Mom-on-the-run Erin: The Challenges of postpartum Depression

Mom-on-the-Run Erin According to the CDC, one in eight new mothers experience postpartum depression, which in Erin’s case, as with others, came after a difficult pregnancy.  “I was on bedrest for a while and I had preeclampsia,” confides Erin. “And I wasn’t good at being pregnant.” Weight gain didn’t help matters either. But Erin had…
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Doc Sarah: Mysterious Condition, Miraculous Race

Doc Sarah: Mysterious Condition, Miraculous Race How do we know when to push through pain and injury to pursue the sports and activities we love? And when should we suspect that injuries are not isolated events but part of a disease process?  In this episode, we meet MBO protagonist Doc Sarah, a pediatrician, mother of…
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Iron Woman Diane

Iron Woman Diane The Rewards & Challenges of Exercise With Diabetes Iron Woman Diane, a recently retired power industry executive with Type 1 diabetes, has completed three full Ironman triathlons, numerous marathons and many lengthy cycling events, such as the New England Tour De Cure where My Body Odyssey first met her.  One day, though,…
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Ultimate Mark: “I Just Love Playing Too Much!”

Ultimate Mark: “I Just Love Playing Too Much!” In My Body Odyssey’s first full episode we meet Ultimate Mark– an uber competitive weekend warrior in many sports but most frequently Ultimate Disc (formerly Ultimate Frisbee).   Mark hurls himself on the ultimate field just as he once did as an aspiring soccer goalie.  Problem is Mark…
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What combats Vax Skepticism?

What combats Vax Skepticism? An Interview with Dr. Jeanine Guidry, Director of VCU’s Health & Media Lab Battling the COVID pandemic has been a war on many fronts – disease management, the race to develop safe, effective vaccines, and now the equally trickly public relations battle against vaccine misinformation and committed skeptics of all kinds….
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