Swimming is a Furniss family tradition.
Furniss does not fight the water, he works with it.
Announcer: That is a new world record by Bruce Furniss!
Furniss: I was in a movie theater and the movie got over.
Steve Furniss: But he broke my world record, believe it or not.
Furniss: It's a horrible disease that can deform you
and really impact your lifestyle.
Furniss: Well,
I'm lucky to have married a Lebanese-American, who just worships the Mediterranean diet.
Furniss: Actually the first thing he said to me is,
the perfect exercise for this disease is swimming.
And they're being coached by one of the best swimmers of all time,
former Olympic champion Bruce Furniss.
Dr. Gupta: Along with a talent for swimming, the Furniss brothers share a genetic risk for ankylosing spondylitis.
Furniss: When I had the first bouts of symptoms in
high school, I went to a typical orthopedist, had x-rays done on my hips.
Furniss: Well,
I'm of the opinion that unless the symptoms appeared, I wouldn't be inclined to want to go look for something I don't need to look for.
We know from pre-historic art that around 90% of humans have been right handed for at least 10,000 years,” the study's corresponding author,
Dominic Furniss, told Gizmodo in an email.
Furniss: When they called me forward to the edge of that block
and said take your marks, there wasn't a day I wasn't prepared to race, regardless of how I felt.
Furniss, an associate professor at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom,
and his collaborators relied on data from the UK Biobank, a study of 500,000 people who offered their physical and genetic data, as well as medical records, up for study.