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b'In this episode I review the\\nabstract of a study released last March by Dr. Depina Kardara and his team at\\nthe\\xa0Athens\\xa0Medical\\xa0School,Hippokration\\xa0Hospital\\xa0titled \\u201cMarathon Runners\\nHave Increased Aortic Stiffness\\u201d.\\n\\nIt is important to note that\\nmy skepticism with this study is related to the implied suggestion that\\ntraining for and running a marathon is considered extreme exercise.\\xa0\\xa0Maybe\\nit is, or maybe after having run 21 of them\\u2026the last not much more than a\\ncontrolled crawl, I see the marathon as an endurance event that homo sapiens\\nhave evolved to run as a means of hunting and gathering; chasing down our prey\\nwith persistence.\\xa0\\n\\nAs we listen to the results of\\nthis research, we need to understand the severity of the impact, and consider\\nother factors which might invalidate the results; remember: 25,000 runners just\\nfinished the Boston Marathon a few weeks ago, not to mention the hundreds of\\nthousands who will run such a distance this year; and yet the sample size for\\nthe test group in this study was only 49.\\xa0\\n\\nThis isn\\u2019t to say that those\\n49 aren\\u2019t representative of the entire human population of marathon runners;\\nnor does it necessarily trivialize the results of this study; but it does put\\nthis study into perspective against the media interpretation that marathon\\u2019s\\ncan kill you.\\n\\nShow Links:\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\n\\nThe song \\u201cThink For Yourself\\u201d\\nwas by George Hrab at'