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I managed to turn my feet and calves into remote blood pumping stations, by changing the way I use my feet. It's made a real difference. Not easy at first, but it is working.Took me years to solve this PAD disease plumbing puzzle, based on basic vascular anatomy and physiology. But then, I am a veterinary pathologist, and a pathologist's job is to determine mechanisms of disease. It's what we do! We can't help it! And I want to run marathons again, even though I'm in my 80s.Based on personal experience of the crippling pain of peripheral artery disease (PAD), I created this step-by-step training plan, to help anyone, not just athletes, for whom their physicians and surgeons have done all they can for their lower limb ischemia (impaired blood flow due to blocked arteries).As a veterinary pathologist, researcher, and athlete, suffering severe PAD since 2014, including almost complete blockage of my right popliteal artery, I undertook the task of finding ways to improve blood flow to my calves and feet. PAD was ruining my enjoyment of my sport, Ironman distance triathlons. I

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