What America's 250th Birthday Can Teach Us About Integrative Medicine Two hundred and fifty years is not a particularly long time in the history of...
Music as Medicine
There are some therapies that come in bottles. Others arrive in syringes, IV bags, or operating rooms. But some of the most powerful medicines in...
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...
Movement as Medicine
Why the Human Body Thrives When It Refuses to Sit Still There is a curious phenomenon that occurs as we age. The less we move, the less we feel like...
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...
Statins: The Cholesterol Diet Coke of Modern Medicine
Statins are marvelous drugs. They are also misunderstood, overtrusted, and occasionally treated like tiny orange seatbelts for the human heart....
The Mediterranean Diet: A Prescription Written in Sunlight
Where the Story Begins If you want to understand the Mediterranean diet, you don’t begin in a laboratory or a clinic or even with a stack of...
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. ...
Harmonizing Your Brain – How Music May Be a Key to Cognitive Longevity
As someone who moves between the world of medicine and the world of music, I’ve long believed in the power of sound not just as something aesthetic,...
Influenza Vaccine Pros, Cons & Natural Treatments
If you are weighing the pros and cons of getting the flu shot this year then you are not alone. Recent studies have questioned how well the flu...
Testosterone Replacement Therapy (TRT) and Cardiovascular Outcomes
As a physician specializing in testosterone replacement therapy for men with hypogonadism, I am frequently asked whether TRT increases...