Blog about heart disease, nutrition, healthy lifestyle and prevention of disease.
Reykjavik, Iceland
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"A surgeon. A cardiac arrest. An apartment that was not his home.
My new fiction series, 'The Sunday Walk,' starts today. Inspired by a real case from my time in the ER,
Episode 1: Arrival is live docsopinion.substack.com/p/t…
Insulin isn’t about sugar.
It’s about abundance.
Part IV of The Metabolic Web is live:
Insulin - The Governor of Abundance.
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Mrs. Alvarez has six specialists and a full calendar of appointments.
Not one of them is wrong.
But none of them sees her whole life.
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The Boy Who Thought His Heart Would Stop -My Contract With God open.substack.com/pub/docsop…
The Statin Empire — And What Now? docsopinion.com/statin-empir… via @docsopinion
The Metabolic Web - Episode 2: Engines of Life open.substack.com/pub/docsop…
Letter From Reykjavik - Living on Borrowed Ground docsopinion.substack.com/p/l…
The Heart of Power – Episode 11: The Fragile Icons
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We weren’t afraid of fat.
We were afraid of being wrong.
The Metabolic Reckoning — what 13 years of carbohydrate restriction have taught us about heart disease.
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We call it a routine procedure—safe, familiar, controlled.
But nothing feels routine when it’s your heart on the table.
👉 The Myth of the Routine Procedure
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The Empathy Protocol
What if we could treat malignant narcissism?
A future president. A new drug. A cure or not?
Read my new psychological satire: The President Who Felt Too Much. open.substack.com/pub/docsop…
Some wounds never appear in the chart.
This essay is about the hidden scars of medicine — the marks it leaves on those who practice it, and the quiet promise to stay human, even when it hurts.
Holding the Line — Staying Human in Medicine
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Inside the Artery: 13 Steps of Atherosclerosis — From Silent Plaque to Heart Attack open.substack.com/pub/docsop…
“Will it happen to me?”
Medicine answers with averages. Patients live one life. That’s the real gap.
The Tyranny of the Average: Why Medicine Struggles With the Individual docsopinion.com/the-tyranny-…
Six episodes now live in my series Inside the Artery: 13 Steps of Atherosclerosis. Step by step, how plaques form inside arteries. docsopinion.substack.com/p/i…