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The Truth About Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

The Truth About Saturated Fat and Heart Disease

Is saturated fat a problem for our hearts, or not? It’s a controversy people have been arguing over for decades. You can easily find voices on both sides of the question. The debate got a fresh jol...

The Unexpected Cause of the Scary Cancer Surge

The Unexpected Cause of the Scary Cancer Surge

Cancer rates appear to be skyrocketing in people under 50 [1][2]. Gen X, Millennials, and even Gen Z are being diagnosed at significantly higher rates than previous generations were at the same a...

1,394 Person Study on Taurine Proves What We Suspected

1,394 Person Study on Taurine Proves What We Suspected

There was absolute despair in the longevity community a few months ago. A study on taurine appeared to smash the hopes that taurine supplements could extend lifespan. Now, I never quite understood ...

Almost All Turmeric (Curcumin) Brands Are a Scam

Almost All Turmeric (Curcumin) Brands Are a Scam

Lies and deception. That’s all the majority of Turmeric and Curcumin supplements are. To be clear, there are some specific use-cases for curcumin supplements, but they need to be used for the corre...

Coronary Heart Disease is Almost ELIMINATED

Coronary Heart Disease is Almost ELIMINATED

Many people don’t realize this, but across the world, cardiovascular disease death rates have been falling dramatically [1]. And today, we have the tools to virtually eliminate it completely. But ...

The Most Important Antioxidant Study I’ve Ever Read

The Most Important Antioxidant Study I’ve Ever Read

For years, antioxidants were hailed as miracle compounds that could slow aging, improve heart health, and enhance physical performance. Then, almost as quickly as they rose to fame, they fell out o...

Doctors Needed to Do a Fast U-Turn on Peanut Allergies

Doctors Needed to Do a Fast U-Turn on Peanut Allergies

Dr. Ruchi Gupta did everything right to protect her daughter from peanut allergies — and it backfired. Dr. Gupta was a young doctor researching food allergies. She knew the advice. At the time, in ...

Weapon Against Alzheimer’s Just Got FDA-Approved

Weapon Against Alzheimer’s Just Got FDA-Approved

The results hit like a ton of bricks, and have critical implications for the recently FDA-approved Alzheimer’s blood test. Researchers were packed wall-to-wall at a conference in San Diego last mon...

Do WHAT to Your Balls to Increase Lifespan??!

Do WHAT to Your Balls to Increase Lifespan??!

A massive new study published in Nature found that castration increases lifespan across vertebrate species, including zoo mammals, rodents, and wild animals [1]. This aligns with historical human d...

Eat Real Food — I Was Wrong

Eat Real Food — I Was Wrong

For years, we’ve been told to “eat real food.” It sounds simple, but the real challenge is figuring out what that actually means—and how official guidelines define it. With the release of the new 2...

Cancer Tests You Need Right Now

Cancer Tests You Need Right Now

When it comes to preventing cancer, early detection is everything. But with all the noise online—from trendy full-body scans to viral “biohacking” tests—it’s easy to miss the tools that are actuall...

HRT Just Changed

HRT Just Changed

There’s been a dramatic change when it comes to hormone therapy. In the U.S., the FDA essentially just admitted they’ve taken the wrong approach for decades, potentially keeping millions of women f...

New Study Reveals the BEST Exercise to Treat Knee Arthritis

New Study Reveals the BEST Exercise to Treat Knee Arthritis

It’s absolutely wild to me how much damage some people have done to their joints by following outdated advice. When I see knee x-rays where all the cartilage has worn away and, instead, bone is gri...

NMN & NAD Supplements for Anti-Aging Just Changed

NMN & NAD Supplements for Anti-Aging Just Changed

Over the last decade, NMN and NAD+ supplements were hyped as groundbreaking tools in the quest for longevity. Boost your NAD+ levels, the story went, and you might slow aging, boost energy, and eve...

Zinc: Benefits, Best Forms, Dosing, and Side Effects

Zinc: Benefits, Best Forms, Dosing, and Side Effects

Table of Contents Overview Forms and Bioavailability Evidence for Benefits Recommended Dosing Safety and Side Effects Drug Interactions Dietary Sources References Overview Zinc is an essential tr...

The EXACT Moment I Stopped Fearing Dementia

The EXACT Moment I Stopped Fearing Dementia

I absolutely love what’s just happened. Medicine is full of examples where there’s been failure after failure to treat a specific health condition, only for a treatment to appear from a completely ...

Weight Loss Supplements: Benefits, Evidence, and Safety

Weight Loss Supplements: Benefits, Evidence, and Safety

Overview More than two-thirds of adults and nearly one-third of children and adolescents in the United States are overweight or have obesity [1][2]. Approximately 45% of Americans who are overweigh...

The Coffee Evidence Just Changed

The Coffee Evidence Just Changed

There was absolute panic in 1981. Imagine sitting at the table, enjoying your morning cup of coffee, with the day’s paper spread out in front of you. Your eyes fall on a headline in bold, black let...

28.7% Weight Loss in New Retatrutide Study

28.7% Weight Loss in New Retatrutide Study

A freshly published study has demonstrated a staggering 28.7% weight loss over a 68-week time period from a drug called retatrutide. Even more surprising, it also brought profound relief from knee ...

PCSK9i Breakthrough Cuts Heart Disease by 25%

PCSK9i Breakthrough Cuts Heart Disease by 25%

A revolutionary new approach to cholesterol-lowering has just changed the game. For decades, we’ve known that LDL cholesterol plays a central role in heart disease. But recent breakthroughs have ta...

Vitamin K: Benefits, Forms, Dosing, and Side Effects

Vitamin K: Benefits, Forms, Dosing, and Side Effects

Vitamin K is a group of fat-soluble vitamins sharing a common 2-methyl-1,4-naphthoquinone ring structure, essential for blood clotting, bone metabolism, and cardiovascular health. The designation "...

Exercise Snacks Are a Longevity Cheat Code

Exercise Snacks Are a Longevity Cheat Code

If there’s one insight that consistently changes the direction of my patients’ health, it’s this: You don’t need a gym membership to improve your fitness or protect your heart. What really matters ...

Omega-3 Breakthrough Cuts Major Heart Events by 43%

Omega-3 Breakthrough Cuts Major Heart Events by 43%

We’ve had failure after failure after failure, but it now looks like we finally have a breakthrough from a new Omega-3 study. And this breakthrough has important implications for your health and mi...

Vitamin E: Benefits, Forms, Dosing, and Side Effects

Vitamin E: Benefits, Forms, Dosing, and Side Effects

Vitamin E is not a single molecule but a family of eight fat-soluble compounds with antioxidant activity: four tocopherols (alpha, beta, gamma, delta) and four tocotrienols (alpha, beta, gamma, del...

This Vitamin D Study Forced Me to Change My View

This Vitamin D Study Forced Me to Change My View

A new vitamin D study has completely changed my view and the advice I give to my patients in the clinic. Because it takes a novel approach, it uncovered something we may have been missing to this p...