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 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 […]

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 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, […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube Massage and acupuncture are two of the most widely used complementary health therapies in the country. According to the 2022 National Health Interview Survey, 11 percent of U.S. adults used massage in the prior year, and 2 percent used acupuncture. At roughly $100 a session each, that is a lot […]

Listen on: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | Podcast Index | Overcast | YouTube You’ve seen enough misleading headlines to be skeptical, you’ve heard the promises that didn’t pan out, and you’re aware that the wellness industry is very good at selling things that may not work. And yet — you still feel something shift when you pick up a product labeled “all natural.” […]