Seven Vaccines After 50, and Nobody Is Keeping the List for You
What each shot is for, how often it comes around, how to pull your own record, and what that record cannot tell you.
Preventive Health
Preventive Health
Preventive Health
The RSV Vaccine Age Floor Dropped to 50. Whether It Includes You Is on a Page Written for Doctors.
What changed for adults 50 to 74, where the real eligibility list is kept, and why a 53-year-old with a genuine cardiovascular problem still cannot tell whether it includes him.
Preventive Health
The First mRNA Flu Shot Is Here. It Did Not Use mRNA’s Biggest Advantage
Moderna’s mFLUSIVA was approved on August 5. The most interesting thing about it is what its own approval failed to demonstrate.
Healthcare, Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
P&G Is Buying Thorne. Everyone Is Worried About the Wrong Thing.
I have three Thorne products in my cabinet. Here is what the P&G Thorne acquisition actually changes, based on the brands bought before it.
Longevity, Medicine 3.0, Nutrition, Preventive Health
Blue Zones Started as a Scientific Claim. Now Cities Pay for Certification.
A trademark, a Netflix series, and about $100,000 a year for a city to keep the certification. The business kept growing while the science underneath it kept shrinking.
Healthcare, Preventive Health
Peptides Promise Everything. An FDA Panel Just Said Yes to Six of Seven.
The FDA’s compounding committee voted on seven peptides, recommending BPC-157. What peptides are, why the market exploded, and what the vote does and does not decide.
Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
Daily Low-Dose Tadalafil: What’s Proven, What’s Plausible, and What Isn’t
My TRT clinic prescribed 5 mg of tadalafil a day. Here is what it is actually proven to do for the prostate and ED, what the podcasts oversell, and the one drug interaction to never ignore.
GLP-1, Medicine 3.0, Preventive Health
Why I Take a Diabetes Drug and Have Never Had Diabetes
I take a diabetes drug and have never had diabetes. A plain-English map of the type 2 diabetes drugs, and why the best ones now protect your heart and kidneys, not just blood sugar.
Nutrition, Preventive Health
Romaine Keeps Making People Sick. I Quit It, and I’m Not Missing Much.
A cyclospora outbreak just sickened 1,645 people across 34 states, and romaine keeps causing E. coli recalls. Is romaine lettuce safe to eat, and is it even worth it? A hard look, and what I eat instead.
Longevity, Mental health, Preventive Health, Work
Don’t Retire From Something. Build Toward Something.
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.