Preventive Health for Men Over 50
Screening, sleep, longevity, and the Medicine 3.0 basics, aimed at catching problems early and staying capable. Evidence first, hype last.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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The 2025 Blood Pressure Guidelines Didn’t Change Who Has Hypertension. They Replaced an Outdated Calculator.
The 2025 blood pressure guidelines sound like a shake-up. Here’s what actually changed about who gets medication, and why it…
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Cold Plunges Got the Hype. Saunas Got the Evidence.
Cold plunges get the attention, but the sauna is the one with decades of hard-outcome data. What the evidence actually…
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Obesity’s Blood Pressure and Cholesterol Gap Shrank. It Wasn’t Ozempic.
A million-person Lancet study shows older adults with obesity now match normal-weight peers on blood pressure and cholesterol, thanks to…
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Health Is the New Luxury. The Biology Costs a Few Thousand Dollars.
Equinox sells a $40,000 longevity membership with a thousand people waiting. I run the same core protocol out of my…
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I’m Exactly Who Sunscreen Is For. Here’s the Rule I’ll Actually Follow.
A new ingredient just cleared the FDA, the first in twenty years. It sent me looking at what sunscreen actually…
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AI Found a Sudden-Death Signal Hiding in a Routine ECG
Most “AI predicts disease” papers don’t survive a second read. This one does, and it points at a kind of…
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Legal Doping: How TRT and GLP-1s Let Normal Men Get Fit and Strong After 50
I take two drugs that would get an Olympian banned: testosterone and a GLP-1. I will never compete, so the…
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My Friend Got Sober and Stayed That Way. The Cravings Didn’t Leave.
My friend is sober, goes to AA, and just started the Wegovy pill for the cravings that never left. Here…
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A Cigarette Company Designed Lunchables. The Science Since Then Is Messier.
Lunchables was engineered inside Philip Morris using the cigarette playbook. That part is real and damning. The case that ultra-processed…
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GLP-1s May Make Movement Easier. They May Also Make You Want It Less.
A new study found people on GLP-1 drugs took fewer steps after starting. I lost the weight and moving got…
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What Actually Works on Sugary Drinks: Bans, Taxes, and Labels, and Who They Reach
I grew up around cigarettes in Germany and watched them vanish. Bans, taxes, and warning labels on sugary drinks all…
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Glucosamine and Alzheimer’s: How a Mouse Study Became a Human Scare
Two dozen outlets ran the same glucosamine-Alzheimer’s scare in four days. The new Nature Metabolism paper is strong mouse biology…
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A Pharmacist in the Barber’s Chair
The drugs were ordinary. The result wasn’t: a 27-point blood-pressure drop in men medicine usually fails to reach. A colleague…
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The Lung-Cancer Blood Test I’m Watching, Not Ordering
I have spent the last year and a half watching my own bloodwork change, and the number that moved the…
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Sleep After 50: My Data Didn’t Say What I Thought It Said
After 50, better sleep came down to two boring things: enough hours and a steady schedule. What a year of…
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Colon Cancer Screening Just Added a Blood Test, and It’s the One I’d Pick Last
The American Cancer Society just added a blood test and new stool tests to its colon cancer screening guideline. Why…
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I Keep Hearing About NAD+. Here Is What the New Research Actually Says.
Huberman talks about it, Bryan Johnson takes it, Goop sells it, Walgreens stocks it. After months of hearing the NAD+…
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I Got Shingrix to Avoid My Wife’s Misery. Then the Dementia and Cardiovascular Data Showed Up.
I got Shingrix at 52 because my wife had shingles and the pain was the worst she has ever felt.…
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Kyle Busch Died of Sepsis. Most of Us Don’t Know What That Actually Means.
NASCAR champion Kyle Busch died after pneumonia progressed to sepsis. Most of us, including me, misunderstand what sepsis actually is.…
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The Functional Medicine Empire: What It Actually Is, What It Sells, and Where It Breaks Down
I have been trying to figure out what “functional health” actually means for about a month, and the first thing…
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Cycling Cuts Dementia Risk by 22%. What the New Data Actually Says.
A study of 479,000 adults found cyclists had 22% lower Alzheimer’s risk, 40% lower young-onset dementia risk, and measurably larger…
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At Some Point, Biohacking Just Becomes Shopping
I read a USA Today story this week about the rise of “biohacking,” and my first reaction was that it…
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A quarter-cup more vegetables, 5 extra minutes of hard movement, and 10 more minutes of sleep were linked to 10% lower cardiovascular risk
A lot of health advice online still pushes the same basic fantasy: that one big change is going to transform…
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DIY Longevity Protocol (aka. “Peter Attia on a Budget”)
Over the last year, I have been reading and watching a lot of health and fitness-related content with a focus…
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Best Health, Fitness & Longevity YouTube Channels
Get the next one in your inbox I write about longevity, training, and preventive health weekly — without the guru…
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How the Government could hack Sleep Quality for Everyone
It is widely documented that achieving consistent sleep quality is one of the most important things we can do to…
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The 50-Year-Old Dad’s Ultimate Morning Routine for Longevity and Strength
How one simple morning routine transformed my energy, health, and dad game at 50 As a 50-year-old father, you’re juggling…