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Getting a Baseline (VO2 Max)
And now for something completely different... Having concrete examples of applied theory helps me learn, and with medicine that means...
Jul 58 min read


From Victim to Agent: Reclaiming the Power of Your Story: Why the Most Powerful Tool for Your Health Might Be the Story You Tell Yourself
We all face suffering—some of it random, some of it unjust, and some of it the kind that makes you want to throw your hands up and say,...
Jun 244 min read


Health Is Not a Service To Outsource: Reclaiming Autonomy in an Age of Learned Helplessness
There’s a question I keep returning to as both a physician and an observer of modern life: Who bears the final burden of responsibility...
May 293 min read


Champagne, Checkups, and the Paradox of a Life Well Lived
There’s a piece of art in my uncle’s house that reads: "Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely...
May 273 min read


When Civilization Sickened Us: What Indigenous Diets Reveal About Modern Disease
Credit: Gary Larson There’s a quiet tragedy in watching health slip away not through war, famine, or plague—but through abundance. In...
May 205 min read


Navigating the Unspoken Challenges: Men's Health and Divorce
Divorce is widely recognized as one of the most stressful events a person can endure. While women's experiences during this life...
Mar 184 min read


Day 1
I consider today the first day of my residency, and to commemorate, I am starting a new blog category dedicated to recording my...
Mar 173 min read


How Biometrics Can Help To Tell a Narrative
I am a proponent of using biometric data to help inform one's health journey. I am also of the mindset that these devices, just like...
Mar 174 min read


Diseases Over Decades: Alzheimers
I have emphasized time and time again that many of the disease we are fighting in order to live longer and healthier lives initiate their...
Mar 163 min read


Micro Plastics
I came across and interesting paper on micro-plastics. Previous papers have shown that microplastics do accumulate in human tissues...
Mar 157 min read


Approach To Character Development
There is a passage worth sharing from David Brook in his book The Road To Character . As I was going back through the book I came across...
Mar 141 min read


Diseases Over Decades: Cancer
I have emphasized time and time again that many of the disease we are fighting in order to live longer and healthier lives initiate their...
Mar 132 min read


Fear, fear all around but not a drop worth drinking.
Having been in the longevity medicine space for sometime, it never ceases to amaze me how much fear mongering there is. It might not be...
Mar 124 min read


The NNT
I am one of the few medical students that actually enjoyed learning Biostatistics. This is the field of math doctors and scientists use...
Mar 114 min read


Personalized Medicine
I came across an interesting 3 page article published in the Journal Nature back in 2015 calling for personalized precision medicine. The...
Mar 102 min read


The Now vs Later Problem
I was reading a book recommended by a friend titled The Road Less Traveled by Dr. M. Scott Peck. The book was published in 1978 but...
Mar 65 min read


Preparing Kids for an Unknown Future
Recently, while reading a book, I found myself reflecting on what the next 50 years will look like—not just in the realm of health, but...
Mar 44 min read


Risk Scores
I thought it would be helpful to share how I think about and approach aspects of my own health, so today I am going to share a polygenic...
Mar 35 min read


What a Time To Be Alive
I am of the strong opinion that we live in the best period of time ever in the history of humanity. So when I come across passages that...
Feb 273 min read


The Ship of Theseus
If there is one thing I can't get enough of in this world, it's the mental puzzles of riddles, paradoxes, and hypothetical thought...
Feb 273 min read
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