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 […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube “Younger people think they have plenty of time. They don’t. Older people think they’ve missed their chance. They haven’t. The science says both are wrong.” — Dr. Bobby A few months ago, I started EMDR therapy. EMDR — eye movement desensitization and reprocessing — is a technique where you recall […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube A few months ago, I shared that my dear wife Gail — the love of my life, my best friend and soul mate — had advanced uterine cancer. By all current testing, she now appears to be cancer free, and I am profoundly grateful. But in those early days, before […]

Weekend workouts count. Short bursts count. And that sports drink? You probably don’t need it. Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube Voltaire warned us: the great is the enemy of the good. Nowhere does that warning ring truer than in exercise. Most of us carry a mental image of what a “proper” workout plan looks like. […]

After 70 episodes, here’s what I’ve actually learned about living long and well Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube After a lifetime of studying evidence, medicine, and what actually helps people — I’ve been sitting with a question: what have I really learned? What have I been trying to share with others? Not what’s trendy. Not […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube I enjoy diet sodas. My reasoning is simple: if I’m perfectly happy with the diet version, why spend the calories on the regular one? Save them for something more satisfying—peanut butter, a brownie, something worth it. That logic feels rational. But it also reminds me of my cardiology professor. During […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube I wasn’t actually sick. I invented two symptoms — hand pain and a severe headache — and asked ChatGPT what to do. It was an experiment. I wanted to know what happens when a real person, with what feels like a real problem, turns to AI for help. In both […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube For roughly twenty years, I wasn’t particularly happy. Not depressed in a clinical sense — I had a good life, a career I cared about, people I loved. But there was a persistent low-level flatness that never quite lifted. Dysthymia, it’s called. I tried psychotherapy. I meditated seriously. I read, […]