So You’ve Been Told You Have Fatty Liver. Here’s What It Really Means, and How to Reverse It Starting Today.
A cardiologist's guide to the disease hiding in 4 in 10 adults, and the letter your liver has been trying to send you.
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Heart & Longevity
Writing on Heart & Longevity — drawn from medicine, longevity, faith, culture, and the inner life.
The Number Your Hands Already Know
Grip strength is a quiet vital sign—linked to longevity and heart risk—and midlife is still early enough to change the trajectory.
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Stop Fearing Cholesterol. Start Reading It.
LDL, HDL, triglycerides, and why the story is more useful than the scare
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Blood Pressure: The Quiet Number That Predicts Your Future
Why a silent reading on a cuff matters more than most dramatic symptoms — and what to do with it
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Not Every Chest Pain Is a Heart Attack
How to tell urgency from noise — and why listening still matters
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Every Question My Patients Ask Me About Peptides
A cardiologist's honest, evidence-first guide to BPC-157, TB-500, MOTS-c, growth-hormone peptides, "stacks," the FDA vote, and what I would actually do.
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You Can Prevent Alzheimer’s — The Internet Is Lying About How
A cardiologist's field guide to the disease that shows up at 70 and starts at 40 — and to reading the advice without getting played
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Is it POTS? Your Heart Races When You Stand Up…
A cardiologist on the syndrome flooding my clinic with worried young women — what it actually is, how to know if you really have it, and when it deserves treatment
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