Finding purpose in retirement is the part no one plans for. Why a project beats a blank calendar, what the research on hobbies and mattering shows, and how to start before you retire.
A BMJ analysis of 262 trials crowned tirzepatide the weight-loss king. But the drug with the hard survival and heart-attack data is the one that finished fifth.
The 2025 blood pressure guidelines sound like a shake-up. Here’s what actually changed about who gets medication, and why it barely moved the needle.
A Yale secret-shopper study tried 49 direct-to-consumer GLP-1 sites. 45 wrote a prescription, some in five minutes. What the questionnaire mills skip, and how to spot real care.
Cold plunges get the attention, but the sauna is the one with decades of hard-outcome data. What the evidence actually says, and why I sauna and skip the plunge.
The GLP-1 muscle loss panic scared me into training at 50. It turned out overblown, but the habit stuck. What the evidence actually says about muscle, and why you train after 50.
A million-person Lancet study shows older adults with obesity now match normal-weight peers on blood pressure and cholesterol, thanks to cheap statins and blood-pressure pills, not weight loss.
The “five times the risk” number is real. The useful lesson for a fifty-year-old is smaller, less sexy, and more actionable. I have read the claim that VO2 max is the single best predictor of how long you will live so many times that I had stopped seeing it. It is everywhere in the longevity
Equinox sells a $40,000 longevity membership with a thousand people waiting. I run the same core protocol out of my garage for a few thousand a year. Here’s where the other $39,000 actually goes, and why some of the most expensive testing can leave you worse off.
A new ingredient just cleared the FDA, the first in twenty years. It sent me looking at what sunscreen actually does, where the fear is overblown, and whether a fair-skinned guy in Boston needs to think about it more than a couple of times in the summer. I am about as fair as a person
