I have spent the last year and a half watching my own bloodwork change, and the number that moved the most was not the one I expected. My LDL cholesterol improved, which I was working on. But the marker that fell off a cliff was my hs-CRP, a measure of low-grade inflammation in the body. […]
After 50, better sleep came down to two boring things: enough hours and a steady schedule. What a year of my own Apple Watch data and the evidence showed.
The American Cancer Society just added a blood test and new stool tests to its colon cancer screening guideline. Why colonoscopy still wins, what each option misses, and how to choose.
Huberman talks about it, Bryan Johnson takes it, Goop sells it, Walgreens stocks it. After months of hearing the NAD+ pitch repeated, I still could not tell whether it was a breakthrough or snake oil. Two new human studies gave me the clearest answer I have read.
I got Shingrix at 52 because my wife had shingles and the pain was the worst she has ever felt. In the eighteen months since, the evidence that the vaccine also lowers dementia and cardiovascular risk has piled up faster than almost any other intervention in adult medicine.
NASCAR champion Kyle Busch died after pneumonia progressed to sepsis. Most of us, including me, misunderstand what sepsis actually is. A clear explainer of the body’s dysregulated response, the TIME warning signs, and what to do.
I have been trying to figure out what “functional health” actually means for about a month, and the first thing I noticed is that the people selling it cannot agree on the term. The same business model gets called “functional medicine,” “functional health,” “root-cause medicine,” “integrative medicine,” and “personalized medicine” by practitioners who all want
A study of 479,000 adults found cyclists had 22% lower Alzheimer’s risk, 40% lower young-onset dementia risk, and measurably larger hippocampi than nonactive controls. Here’s what the data actually shows, the APOE caveat the headlines missed, and the negative RCT you should hold next to it.
I read a USA Today story this week about the rise of “biohacking,” and my first reaction was that it mostly got the vibe right. More wearables. More self-ordered labs. More biological-age tests. More longevity clinics. More guys showing up with a screen full of numbers and the feeling that they’re finally getting serious about
A lot of health advice online still pushes the same basic fantasy: that one big change is going to transform your future. Alternatively there is the biohackers hustle culture demanding to “optimize” everything right now. For many folks that’s so intimidating to be impossible. Personally, I have taken a somewhat staged approach while making small
