Henry VIII, the Brain, and the Obesity
Henry VIII’s weight gain wasn’t just excess—it may have been brain injury. What history and GLP-1 drugs reveal about obesity today.
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The Carnivore Priesthood
When Beef Becomes Belief: The Carnivore Priesthood Nutrition debates rarely begin with money. Yet money almost always explains how they spread. That fact explains much of the modern carnivore movement. At first glance, the carnivore diet appears to be a radical nutritional idea: eat beef, organs, and animal fat while avoiding vegetables, grains, legumes, and…
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From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution
From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution In 1991, I left Seattle and moved to Phoenix to begin my career as a surgeon. In Seattle, hiking meant pine trees, damp trails, and reliable rain. In Phoenix, hiking meant bottled water and survival. The temperature could sit at 113 degrees at six in the evening. Sometimes the…
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Mexican Food Is Healthy. The Taco Took the Blame.
Mexican food isn’t unhealthy — American processing is. Real tacos deliver fiber, gut health, and Mediterranean biology in a corn tortilla.
Read MoreFood Pyramid Blues: Influencers are not Scientists
When Influencers Replace Scientists, Everyone Loses Every few years, nutrition gets a makeover.First comes a new graphic.Then comes a new slogan.Soon after, we hear claims that this time, someone finally figured it all out. Recently, that makeover arrived in the form of a “reverse food pyramid” and the cheerful phrase “Eat Real Food.” On the…
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Ultra Processed Food: The Enemy?
Ultra-Processed Food: Making Sense of the Madness Ultra-processed food has become the villain of modern nutrition.Scroll through social media, and you’ll hear that it’s poisoning us, wrecking our gut, and driving the obesity epidemic all by itself. At the same time, other voices dismiss the entire idea as fear-mongering.According to them, processing doesn’t matter at…
Read MoreTelomeres and Time: Rewind Aging
🧬 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…
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Edinburgh’s Surgical Revolution
How Edinburgh’s breakthroughs in anesthesia and antisepsis rescued surgery from quacks — and why today’s wellness fads echo the same old scams.
Read MoreSmoothie Mornings Made Easy With Two Simple Appliances
How a simple blender and a Nespresso machine transformed my mornings—making smoothies easy, coffee fast, and healthy habits actually stick.
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