Christopher McDougall Quotes

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You don't stop running because you get old. You get old because you stop running.
— Christopher McDougall Born to Run

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The only way to truly conquer something, as every great philosopher and geneticist will tell you, is to love it.
— Christopher McDougall Born to Run
The way to activate your fat-burning furnace is by staying below your aerobic threshold—your hard-breathing point—during your endurance runs.
— Christopher McDougall Born to Run

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Beyond the very extreme of fatigue and distress, we may find amounts of ease and power we never dreamed ourselves to own; sources of strength never taxed at all because we never push through the obstruction.
— Christopher McDougall Born to Run

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Geranium niveum is the Tarahumara wonder drug; according to the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, it's as effective as red wine at neutralizing disease-causing free radicals. As one writer put it, wild geranium is "anti-everything—anti-inflammatory, antiviral, antibacterial, antioxidant."