A Slightly Irreverent Field Guide to Cellular Energy If you zoomed in far enough, past skin, past muscle, past internal organs and all the way into...
How French Fries Wreck People
French fries have an image problem. They sit in the cultural dock like repeat offenders - greasy, addictive, and somehow responsible for everything...
Long Covid – When the Lights Stay On but the Power Is Gone
Mitochondria, Meaning, and the Long Goodbye of Viral Illness Long after the fever breaks and the test turns negative, many people discover that...
The Quiet Power of Massage
Modern medicine is spectacular at emergencies. It can replace hips, restart hearts, and peer into the body with machines that would have looked...
We Saved Money on Dinner and Spent It on Doctors
There was a time - recent enough that your grandparents could still complain about it - when Americans spent a ridiculous amount of money on food. ...
The Lipid Highway
Particles, Payloads, and Why Counting Trucks Matters More Than We Thought For most of modern medicine, cholesterol has been treated like a...
When the Cancer Scan Is Clean but the Blood Isn’t
Cultivating the Biology of Cancer Remission There is a new kind of limbo in oncology. It did not exist twenty years ago. It arrived with molecular...
The New Dietary Guidelines And Why They Still Point You Toward Real Food
Why the New Guidelines Caused Confusion Every few years, new dietary guidelines are released and a familiar wave of anxiety follows. This time, the...
Keys to Great Health
“Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that made him sick.” —Hippocrates (Who, it should be noted, did not own a...
A Christmas Music Prescription
If laughter is the best medicine, then I’d like to think music is a close second. I discovered around the age of 18 that I have an ear for playing...
Understanding the Ketogenic Diet
What Is the Ketogenic Diet? The ketogenic diet is a high-fat, moderate-protein, very low-carbohydrate nutrition strategy designed to shift the...
Why a Whole-Food Plant-Based Diet Makes Sense — Even According to Our Ancestors
A sweeping 2025 study titled “The Broad Spectrum Species: Plant Use and Processing as Deep Time Adaptations”, published in Journal of Archaeological...