100 Things Every...

The series. One hundred things every man, woman, dad, mom, young person and grandparent should know, do or own.

Count The Breaths Before You Call The Nurse Line

A barking cough at 2 a.m. isn't the emergency. The chest, the belly and the breath count tell you what is.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Get the cataracts done before you stop driving at night

What actually tells you it's time, how to pick the lens, and why the two weeks of eye drops are harder than the fifteen minutes of surgery.

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Normal hemoglobin doesn't mean your iron is fine

The exhaustion that gets waved off as stress has a specific test, a specific number, and a correction that takes about three months.

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How much walking actually counts when you've got kids

The 10,000-step number came from a pedometer ad. Here's what a real walking habit looks like for someone with a job, a family and 40 spare minutes.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

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The four places in your house where the fall happens

Most of the fix is a Saturday's work and under two hundred dollars, and the part almost nobody does is the one that matters.

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What the hormone therapy panic got wrong, and what it didn't

The 2002 study that scared a generation off estrogen enrolled women with an average age of 63. That detail changed everything about how this is prescribed now.

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Your first three weeks back after surgery should feel too easy

Come back from illness or an operation without blowing it up in week three, when you finally feel good and do something stupid.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

Your thirst gauge broke, and nobody told you

After sixty the thirst signal dulls, so you can be a quart low and feel nothing. Run fluids on a clock instead, and know which days actually put men in the hospital.

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The autoimmune gap is real and it starts on the X chromosome

Roughly four out of five people with an autoimmune condition are women. What's driving that, and how to get diagnosed without losing four years to it.

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GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20266 min

Five health checks worth doing before you turn 30

Your twenties are the cheapest decade of your life to find a problem, and most of what's worth checking fits in one blood draw and a thirty dollar cuff.

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GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus ValeSep 23, 20266 min

What to ask at every health check after sixty-five

The Medicare wellness visit isn't a physical, nobody owns your medication list, and most of the useful information comes from questions you ask.

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Where does your phone charge overnight?

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The six-week check isn't a pelvic floor plan

Leaking, heaviness, a core that won't fire back up. Common after birth, and none of it is something you're supposed to just live with.

$Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart$

GuideFitnessCal BrennanSep 23, 20265 min

Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart

One hurts along a stretch of bone and warms up as you run. The other hurts on a spot the size of a dime and gets worse. Learn the difference before you lose a season.