Health, explained across systems not symptoms.
The Integrated Health Journal is a collection of long-form, evidence-based articles designed to help you better understand how your health actually works. Instead of focusing on isolated topics, we connect ideas together and provide context so you can make more informed decisions about your wellbeing.
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How Hormonal Fluctuations Across the Cycle Affect Energy, Mood, Cognition, and Pain
Why the Menstrual Cycle Is More Than a Reproductive Event Most people are taught to think of the menstrual cycle as something that happens in the uterus. A period arrives. Bleeding starts. Cramps may come with it. Then the cycle resets and the month moves on. But the menstrual cycle is not only a reproductive
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Nutrition
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Are Seed Oils Bad for You? The Truth
Walk through any grocery store and you’ll see them everywhere, though you may not notice: soybean oil in salad dressings, canola oil in packaged snacks, sunflower oil in “heart-healthy” spreads. Over the past decade, these so-called seed oils have gone from invisible ingredient to public…
Heart Health
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The Sentinel and the Signal: On the Present State of Cancer Screening
There is an old and melancholy habit in medicine: the habit of arriving too late. The physician has too often been summoned not to prevent a storm, but to survey the wreckage it has left behind. Cancer, that ancient and remorseless adversary, has thrived upon…
Weight Loss
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GLP-1 Weight Loss Drugs: What Doctors Wish Patients Knew Before Starting
In the history of medicine, a certain kind of remedy arrives that captures the public imagination so completely that the imagination begins to do the work that clinical judgment ought to do instead. These remedies are not fraudulent; they are often genuinely effective; and that…
Mental Health
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The Inflammation-Depression Connection
Is Mental Health Also a Physical Problem? Depression is often spoken about as if it lives entirely in the mind. A person feels low. They lose interest. They sleep too much or not enough. Their appetite changes. Their motivation disappears. The explanation is usually framed…
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How Sleep Deprivation and Anxiety Create a Feedback Loop That’s Hard to Break
Most people have experienced a bad night of sleep followed by a difficult day. You feel on edge, less patient, more reactive. Small stressors feel larger than they should. Your thoughts move faster, but not more clearly. By the time night comes around again, you…
Fitness
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Zone 2 Cardio: The Boring Workout Everyone Should Be Doing and Almost Nobody Is
High intensity interval training, max effort lifts, all out sprints, and workouts that leave you collapsed on the floor tend to dominate fitness discussions online. They are engaging, measurable, and easy to market. They can also feel productive in a very immediate way. But there…
Aging
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How Your Biological Age Differs From Your Chronological Age, and How to Measure It
You probably know someone who is 60 and runs marathons, and someone else who is 45 and already managing multiple chronic conditions. Heck, maybe you are one of those people? We’ve all heard someone say “age is just a number”, but for most of medical…
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How Hormonal Fluctuations Across the Cycle Affect Energy, Mood, Cognition, and Pain
Why the Menstrual Cycle Is More Than a Reproductive Event Most people are taught to think of the menstrual cycle…
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The Gender Health Gap
Why Women’s Symptoms Are Still Being Undertreated A woman walks into a doctor’s office with pain, fatigue, heart palpitations, heavy…
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The Inflammation-Depression Connection
Is Mental Health Also a Physical Problem? Depression is often spoken about as if it lives entirely in the mind.…