lifestyle medicine

Willpower Is B.S.: A Surgeon on Zepbound

December 28, 2025

Willpower Is B.S.: Food Noise, Healthspan, and What Actually Changed My Life For decades, I started every New Year the same way. In January, I promised myself this would be the year.By February, I tried harder.Every spring, I adjusted the plan.And by summer or fall, the weight crept back. That cycle repeated not because I…

Is Whoop Predicting My Death?

December 19, 2025

Is Your Watch Predicting Your Death? What Biologic Age Really Means — and What It Doesn’t My Whoop tells me I’m eight years older than I actually am. Naturally, that raises a question.Does that mean I’m going to die eight years sooner?Is my watch quietly chiseling a new date onto my tombstone? Fortunately, the answer…

Telomeres and Time: Rewind Aging

November 24, 2025

🧬 Telomeres and Time: Can We Really Rewind Aging? The Lowest Hemoglobin I’ve Ever Seen The lowest hemoglobin I’ve ever seen belonged to a young woman who was still standing. Her blood count was one-fourth of normal. She was pale, short of breath, and strong enough to walk into the clinic.Doctors soon learned her bone…