Your go-to source for evidence-based health information. Harvard BA; Yale MD; UPenn residency (radiation oncology)
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Most health advice is wrong—and some of it’s quietly harming you.
I’ve written a FREE ebook that debunks 7 popular health “facts”—and shows you what to do instead.
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Nobody posts a photo of their statin beside an infrared sauna.
The better an aging intervention is proven to work, the less anyone wants to hear about it.
My free 3-minute Checkup won’t guess your biological age. It shows where you’re under strain:
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She was in bed by ten and up at six, and still reaching for a second coffee by nine.
In midlife, the problem is often not how long a woman sleeps but how many times the night quietly breaks.
A physician’s free Brief on why, and what helps:
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#menopause
At 2 p.m., a problem feels manageable. At 2 a.m., it can feel catastrophic.
The problem hasn't changed. The brain examining it has.
Poor sleep can quietly drain your capacity long before you recognize the pattern.
Find out where your reserves stand. Free 3-minute assessment:
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#Sleep #MentalHealth
ALT A Black man lies awake at 2 a.m. in a dark bedroom. Beside him, the same man sits calmly in warm afternoon sunlight, illustrating how problems can feel different after sleep.
You took the vacation. Slept in. Turned off your phone.
Two weeks later, you're exhausted again.
After 36 years in oncology, I've learned that time off doesn't always restore what chronic demands have depleted.
The problem may be the life you return to.
If a vacation couldn't restore your energy, maybe rest isn't the whole problem. Find out what's draining you with my free 3-minute Capacity Assessment:
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#Burnout #Wellness
What have you quietly stopped doing because it takes too much out of you?
Tennis? Travel? Seeing friends?
You may still manage everything you have to do while giving up what you want to do.
Free 3-minute Capacity Assessment:
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#healthyaging
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She was halfway through a presentation when the word “forecast” disappeared.
She knew what she wanted to say. She couldn't find the word.
Her bloodwork was normal.
Could menopause be part of the picture?
Explore your symptoms with my free Menopause Assessment: michael-andrew-fsoddkjt.scor…
#Menopause #BrainFog #WomensHealth
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“But nobody in my family has breast cancer.”
I've heard that sentence from women sitting across from me, newly diagnosed.
Most women who develop breast cancer have no family history of it.
After 36 years treating cancer, I wish more women knew that before the phone call.
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#BreastCancerAwareness #BreastCancer
Pope Leo XIV reportedly had lung cancer. His lungs gave him no warning.
After 36 years treating cancer, I know how often the absence of symptoms creates a false sense of safety.
The most important question isn't how he felt. It's how his doctors found it.
My essay (free friend link): medium.com/beingwell/the-pop…
#LungCancer #EarlyDetection
Patients rarely tell me what they’ve lost. They tell me what they can still do.
The question I ask instead: What have you stopped doing so you can keep doing what you have to do?
Find out where your capacity is going. Free 3-minute assessment:
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A migraine study fed 770,000 headache diaries to AI. The warning signs patients are taught to watch explained about 11% of the prediction. The previous month explained about 56%.
We notice events, while the body keeps its accounts in trajectories.
READ the whole story with my free friend link:
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Normal labs don’t mean nothing is changing.
Perimenopause can affect sleep and word-finding, even when routine tests don’t explain your symptoms.
Free assessment: see which of four areas is most affected, and what to read next.
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#Perimenopause #Menopause
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YYou may not have lost yourself. Menopause can affect sleep, mood, focus, and your body in ways that overlap. Which area needs your attention most? Find out with my free 3-minute assessment:
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#Menopause #WomensHealth
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ALT Menopause can affect sleep, mood, focus, and your body in ways that overlap. Take this free 3-minute assessment to identify which areas may need your attention and discover practical next steps.
After 36 years in medicine, I realized I’d been overlooking a question when patients struggled with sleep.
Not about bedtime. About breakfast.
New research suggests what we eat during the day may shape how we sleep at night.
PLEASE USE MY FREE FRIEND LINK to read the essay on Medium:
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#Sleep #Nutrition #HealthyAging
The most dangerous word in a successful life may be “more.”
More money. More achievement. One more milestone.
The problem is that “more” has no stopping rule. At some point, ambition can start consuming the life it was supposed to build.
READ MORE HERE (free friend link to Medium)
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#SelfImprovement #stress
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Your supplements may be working against each other.
Zinc can impair copper absorption. Calcium can interfere with iron. Calcium and iron can reduce absorption of some medications.
The question isn't just what you take.
It's what you're taking together.
Get the whole story in my new essay (using this free friend link): medium.com/beingwell/the-sup…
#Supplements #Health #Wellness
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Aging doesn’t always make your life smaller.
Sometimes you make your life smaller first.
You stop taking the stairs. Stop carrying heavy things. Drive distances you used to walk. Avoid getting on the floor.
Your body adapts to the life you ask it to live.
10 tiny habits that push back:
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Your knee hurt, so you started taking the elevator. A month later the knee is fine, and you're still taking the elevator.
That's how most lives get smaller: a series of reasonable accommodations that quietly start to feel like preferences.
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ALT A man pauses between an open elevator and a staircase rising beside it, capturing the small everyday choice between convenience and continuing to ask something of our bodies as we age.
he people running out of capacity rarely look like it.
They’re still working. Exercising. Showing up. Getting everything done.
The better question is:
What did you stop doing so you could keep doing all of that?
Reading at night? Seeing friends? Using Saturday morning for something other than recovery?
Nothing has failed.
Your life has simply become more expensive to operate.
I built a free 3-minute Capacity Assessment to help you see where your margin may be narrowing.
Take it here:
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