Heart Health and Bloodwork After 50
Your cholesterol panel, blood pressure, Lp(a), and the bloodwork most men over 50 never get explained. What the numbers mean, what is worth treating, and what I track on myself.
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A Single Shot That Cuts Your LDL by 62 Percent. The Catch: It Edits Your DNA.
Eli Lilly’s VERVE-102 gene-editing therapy cut LDL by 62 percent at the highest dose in Phase 1, with no treatment-related…
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My Wife Just Bought Calcium Chews. A New BMJ Paper Says I’d Skip Them.
My wife bought a pink tub of Viactiv calcium chews because that’s what you do for your bones. Then a…
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Reading Your Cholesterol Panel at 50: A Plain-English Guide to the New 2026 Guideline
Your cholesterol panel at 50, decoded. The six numbers, the new 2026 guideline targets, the coronary calcium scan, and what…
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Lp(a) Test: The Number Most Doctors Miss
In May 2026, three major papers landed on Lp(a) — the genetic cholesterol marker that 1 in 5 adults carry…
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The Weird History of Statins: Mold, Muscle Pain, and the Nocebo Effect
I knew statins worked. I did not know how strange the origin story was. How statins started with mold Get…
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Don’t Just Look at the Numbers #DMVtest
I went to the DMV last week Totally routine paperwork to get the RealID star and that brutally honest camera…
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Fitness Journey 4: The Year I Took my Heart Seriously (lowering LDL through GLP-1 and Ezetimibe)
I spent most of my life thinking heart disease was something that happened to “other guys.” I don’t have a…
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The Blood Pressure Wake-Up Call
I’ve got stage 1 hypertension. Nothing dramatic — no dizzy spells, no chest tightness — just that quiet number on…
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New Blood Pressure Guidelines: 120/80, 130/80, and What Counts as High Now
High Blood Pressure (aka. Hypertension) is known as the Silent Killer as it often goes undetected until it is too…
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Check your bloodwork (regularly)!
I recently got a pretty comprehensive blood test done (via marekhealth/labcorb). Mostly no big surprises and in line with what…
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Reality hits at annual physical
After years of not getting a physical (out of laziness and the fear “they will just tell me to lose…