Nutrition

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  The Ultra-Processed Food Research Is Getting Hard to Ignore

  Here’s What It Says Most people do not think of ultra-processed foods as a research category. They think of them as dinner after a long day, a protein bar between meetings, cereal before school, or a frozen meal when cooking feels out of reach. That…

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  Protein Is Having a Moment

  But How Much Do You Actually Need? Walk through a grocery store today and protein is everywhere. Protein cereal. Protein coffee. Protein chips. Protein pasta. Protein bars that look like candy bars. Yogurt with the number of grams printed larger than the flavor. The message…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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