Why a Little Stress May Be Exactly What We Need We have spent much of the modern era succeeding in making ourselves comfortable. We heat the house...
Unlocking the Nutrients in Your Food
We tend to think of nutrition as inventory. A carrot contains this much beta-carotene. A tomato contains this much lycopene. Spinach has iron....
Diagnose and Adios
Modern medicine is very good at naming things. We have codes for everything. Codes for high blood pressure. Codes for low thyroid. Codes for high...
Mitochondrial Aging and the Art of Growing Older Well
The Slow Burn Every cell in your body contains tiny structures called mitochondria. They are often described as the cell's power plants, but that...
Exercise After Cancer
What the research tells us about exercise, recurrence and survival after cancer Cancer treatment has traditionally been built around things done to...
Osteoporosis and the Case for Lifting Something Heavy
For decades, the exercise advice given to people with osteoporosis has sounded something like this. Be careful. Don't lift anything too heavy....
One, Two, Three: The Evolution of the New Weight Loss Drugs
Few medications have changed the treatment of obesity as dramatically as the new generation of GLP-1 drugs. Semaglutide transformed what we thought...
A Longevity Recipe of Grains, Greens, Roots and Beans
The Foods That Keep Showing Up Where People Live Well Nutrition has become unnecessarily complicated. We have continuous glucose monitors, ketone...
The Buzz on B Vitamins
Eight Tiny Nutrients That Quietly Keep You Alive There are some vitamins that seem to get all the attention. Vitamin C has long been the poster...
You Can’t Supplement Your Way Out of a Lousy Diet
Walk into any health food store and you'll quickly conclude that modern nutrition apparently comes in bottles. Shelves stretch from floor to ceiling...
Twenty Years of Gratitude
A Story About Patients, Purpose, and the Privilege of Practicing Medicine Anniversaries have a way of inviting reflection. They encourage us to look...
The Alphabet of Life known as Amino Acids
Why the Building Block of Protein Matter More Than You Think There are certain words in medicine that sound far more complicated than they really...