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We are very excited about the Mikey Young At Heart App. Now we want to tell as many people about it as possible. Teaching high school students how to use a defibrillator will make them more comfortable using one should the need arise, and may even prepare them to save a life.

Over the next few months you’ll see the Mikey Young At Heart App on TV and while you’re waiting for the next subway train, hear about it on the radio, and read about it in magazines and newspapers.

We want to thank the following media companies for helping us spread the word about Mikey Young At Heart.

  • CTV
  • 680 News
  • The Fan 590
  • Pattison Outdoor- (TTC Subway Station TV Screens)
  • OutFront Media (Transit Shelters)
  • Mississauga News
  • Brampton Guardian
  • The Auroran
  • King Weekly
  • New Tecumseth
  • Caledon Enterprise
  • HomeFinder Magazine
  • South Asian Focus
  • Today’s Homes & Condos
  • Epoch Times
  • New Condo Guide
  • Condo Life Magazine
  • Homes Magazine
  • ReproArt
  • DB Audio

Your generous support is helping us get the word out, and helping The Beat Go On.

This week’s Fitness Post is brought to you by personal trainer Igor Klibanov from Fitness Solutions Plus.

Everyone wants a fast metabolism, and for good reason. A fast metabolism gives you lots of energy, and the ability to eat “bad” foods without paying the price (immediately, anyway).

But let me correct you. You don’t want a super-fast metabolism. You want an optimal metabolism. There is such a thing as too fast, and if your metabolism is too fast, yes, you burn fat, but you also burn muscle (or have a very hard time building muscle) and bone. Not ideal effects.

Another half myth is that your metabolism slows down as you age. I say “half myth” because people seriously overestimate how much their metabolism slows down as they age. If you’re 50 years old and have more fat than you did at 20 is it because you’re 30 years older? Or is it because when you were 20, you used to play basketball 2 hours a day? Or think back to when you were 10 years old. Do you have more fat now than you did back then because you’re older or because you used to play tag during recess?

Sure, there’s no question that metabolism slows down as you age, but the amount that it slows down due to aging is much smaller than you think. That’s both good and bad news. The good news is that your metabolism is almost completely within your control. The bad news is that now you can’t use age as an excuse for the excess body fat you’re carrying.

But anyways, that’s just a bit of a rant.

How do you speed up your metabolism?

To answer that question, let’s look at what makes up your resting metabolic rate (RMR). There are 3 factors:

  1. Thermic effect of feeding. This is basically how many calories you burn just digesting the food that you ate. With fat, you use up 2-3% of the calories you ate to digest and assimilate it. With carbohydrates, you use 5-10% of the calories you ate to digest and assimilate it. With protein, you use 25-30% of the calories you ate to digest and assimilate it.
  2. Physical activity. This can be divided into:
    a) Exercise
    b) Non-exercise physical activity (NEPA).

It’s in the physical activity department where the greatest potential lies in speeding up your metabolism. With exercise, if you are able to put on lean body mass, you will speed up your metabolism. Muscle speeds up your metabolism. And healthy organs speed up your metabolism even more. Remember, the term “lean body mass” doesn’t just mean muscle. It means everything that isn’t fat. That includes your brain, your skin, your liver, your digestive and reproductive organs, etc. By having well-functioning internal organs, your metabolism will naturally speed up (if it’s slow).

NEPA is an interesting one, because there is quite a bit of evidence to suggest that the difference between the naturally thin person and the person struggling. NEPA, as the name implies is everything that isn’t exercise. It’s the fidgeting, chewing the food more, walking around more, tapping your pen/pencil, etc.

Naturally thin people burn as much as 900 calories per day through NEPA alone!

That’s great news for you if you have body fat you’d like to lose. Much of it is within your control.

InsideToronto.com recently featured our Mikey Young At Heart App in their many local newspapers:

Are you a high school student looking to complete your 40 hours of volunteer time?

The Mikey Network, though the Mikey Young At Heart program, is now offering teens an opportunity to log those community service hours, while also learning how to do CPR and use an automated external defibrillator (AED) at the same time.

Read the rest of the article below:

High school students can get volunteer hours with The Mikey Network while learning CRP and using automated external defibrillators

Terrific news! Another life has been Saved By A Mikey!

Last Friday, January 15, 2016, at Agincourt High School, a 72 year old man collapsed between Badminton games. He unfortunately went into cardiac arrest, but luckily, a MIKEY AED was on hand.

Bystanders applied the MIKEY and began CPR. The Fire Department and Advanced Care Paramedic crew arrived and continued compressions. At the end of 2 minutes of CPR, a pulse was detected. Our latest Mikey Save is doing well. He says he is happy to be alive and is thankful for those that helped him.

This MIKEY was placed at the school as part of our Mikey Young At Heart Program. This makes 31 lives that have now been Saved By A Mikey! That’s why it’s so important to place AEDs in as many public places as possible. We want to make sure this life-saving device is available should the need arise.

bloor hot docs mikey defibrillator

 

Bloor Hot Docs Cinema has recently installed a MIKEY defibrillator of their very own at their Annex District downtown Toronto location. Morty Henkle, Executive Director of The Mikey Network and David Eisenstadt, Partner at tcgpr were on hand to present the MIKEY to Manager Ron Koperdraad.

Placing MIKEYs in our community is part of our core Mission. Everyone here at The Mikey Network is dedicated to saving lives through making Public Access Defibrillators available in public, high-risk areas. The patrons of Bloor Hot Docs Cinema can rest assured that this life-saving machine will be on hand if the need ever arises.