Caffeine is the most-studied performance drug in sport, and it works, modestly. What matters after 50 is the dose, the timing, and whether the label tells you the number.
Wholesale whey protein is up fivefold in three years and suppliers are sold out. GLP-1 users chasing protein targets repriced the market, and the same drug is shrinking cheese demand that whey depends on.
The tabloids are calling it the cure for “Ozempic butt.” But it saved lean mass on a scan, not strength, and the real fix is still protein and a barbell. I take tirzepatide. I’ve also lost a lot of weight on it, and the one thing I worried about the whole way down was muscle.
The drugs were ordinary. The result wasn’t: a 27-point blood-pressure drop in men medicine usually fails to reach. A colleague mentioned this interesting hypertension treatment project to me almost in passing, so I looked up the study. A group in Los Angeles turned Black barbershops into blood pressure clinics. Men came in for haircuts and,
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.
You order a prescription online and it arrives in days. Some of it is real care. Some is a sales funnel in a white coat. Here is how to tell the difference.
After losing 170 pounds and getting into the best shape of my life, I still felt behind. The problem was not my body. It was the scoreboard.
I take tirzepatide. So when the headline came through this week that GLP-1 drugs might slow the spread of cancer, it intrigued me more than most drug news. This is the medication in my own refrigerator. I went and read the actual study instead of the headline, and the short version is that the signal
I started lifting at 50 after thirty years of nothing: the dumbbells in my office, the gym that scared me off, the coach who made it stick, and what the evidence says a beginner actually needs.
