Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube I just got back from Switzerland, where, of course, I ate plenty of Swiss chocolate. Sitting around one evening with several Swiss physician friends, chocolate in hand, I found myself wondering what many of us quietly want answered: is chocolate actually good for us? I’d love to believe it is. […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube I recently came home from two weeks in Europe. It was a wonderful trip. And yet, physically, I never quite felt like myself. I slept poorly, felt foggy and tired much of the day, and my digestion went on strike. My first explanation was the obvious one: I simply did […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube Every morning I get on my bicycle, and the helmet goes on without a thought. So a few weeks ago, when a motorcyclist passed me bare-headed, my first instinct was to flag him down—because I’d just read a news story reporting that e-bike crashes had doubled, that one in five […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube You call your doctor’s office and the first opening is a month out. When you finally get there, you have fifteen minutes — five of them, maybe, on the problem that brought you in. And on the day you’re actually sick and need to be seen, you often end up […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube Congress once again debates whether to make Daylight Saving Time permanent, and the argument has us all thinking about our internal clocks, or our Chronotype. We know the old proverb—the early bird catches the worm. But there’s a quieter truth on the other side: while the world sleeps, the owl […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube You open your health portal before bed, mostly out of habit, and there it is: a number in red. Or your doctor mentions, almost in passing, that your cholesterol has crept up and your blood sugar is “borderline.” Nothing hurts. You feel the same as last week. But something has […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube I woke this morning at my usual hour, around 5 a.m., made coffee with my new barista machine, and sat down with the latest studies that had come across my desk. A typical morning. Then it was 7 o’clock — time to exercise. And here was the question: I wasn’t […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube A few weeks ago I was in the middle of a hard set with my strength trainer — muscles burning, breath short — when a somewhat embarrassing  thought (for a wellness afficianado) floated through my head: This isn’t fun. Should I just quit? I didn’t quit that set. But the […]

A Framework for Sorting Health Fears from Health Facts Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube Every week, it seems, there’s a new health alarm to add to the pile. Artificial sweeteners will kill you. Seed oils are toxic. Microplastics are invading your organs. You need to optimize your microbiome, test your biological age, and take seventeen […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube I’m turning 70 in July. That number feels different. Not bad. Not a tragedy. But different-like a threshold I’ve been approaching without fully acknowledging it. So I’ve been asking myself some honest questions: What am I actually doing to preserve the life I want? What am I not doing? What […]