Most research on dementia risk gives us percentages. Your risk goes up by this much; your odds go up by that much. Useful for researchers, but hard to feel. A…
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We tend to think of heart disease as a problem that arrives sometime after 50. A new report from the FF-CHAYA study, published in Circulation: Population Health and Outcomes, suggests the…
Intermittent fasting has become one of the most popular health strategies of the past decade, and for good reason. In younger and middle-aged adults, compressing the eating window has been…
Metabolic oncology has long taught a straightforward lesson. Cancer cells burn three main fuels: glucose, glutamine, and fatty acids, and the way to weaken a tumor is to cut off…
A groundbreaking study from researchers at the University of California has uncovered four primary disease pathways that commonly lead to Alzheimer’s disease, offering new insights into how the condition develops…
Protein is having a moment. Shakes, bars, “high-protein” labels on everything from ice cream to pasta, and diet plans that treat meat as a food group unto itself. Most of…
A quiet objection comes up whenever a physician tells a patient with an established chronic disease to change how they eat, move, and sleep. The objection goes: published data show…
We have all heard that sitting is the new smoking. It is a catchy line, and there is real truth behind it. But a new study published in Alzheimer’s &…
Few foods enjoy a better reputation than olive oil. It is the golden centerpiece of the Mediterranean diet, the darling of cardiologists, the oil your grandmother swore by, and the…
Most people worry about the wrong exposures, and not enough about the ones that quietly add up. Patients ask me about radiation more often than almost any other safety question.…