The Endurance Athlete’s Paradox

Why Some of the Fittest People on Earth Have High Coronary Calcium Scores For years we have operated under a wonderfully simple equation: exercise...

Psilocybin and Aging

The Curious Case of Cells That Refused to Act Their Age Modern medicine likes its boxes tidy. Drugs are for symptoms. Therapy is for feelings. Aging...

The Medicine of Salt Air

Why the Coast Makes Us Feel Human Again By the second morning at the Carolina coast, something subtle begins to happen. The shoulders descend half...

Get the Lead Out with Chelation

A Mad Hatter Problem That Never Left ‘In THAT direction,’ the Cat said, waving its right paw, ‘lives a Hatter… and in THAT direction,’ waving the...

Please Pour the Coffee, But Do It Right

There’s an old story about an Ethiopian goat herder watching his animals dance after eating bright red berries.  Curiosity did what curiosity always...

Good Calories Bad Calories

There is a certain elegance to the idea that all calories are created equal.  It’s tidy.  Democratic.  A calorie is a calorie, we’re told - burn...

Aging in Motion

What it Really Means to Stay Active for Life There’s a quiet revolution happening in longevity science, and it doesn’t come from a pill bottle, a...