One in Eight Cancers Is an Infection. You Can Test For It.
The newest global numbers are in. Five microbes did almost all of it, and four of them have a fix you can get this month.
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Writings
Medicine, longevity, faith, culture, and the questions that make a life worth examining.
Your Penis Is Trying to Warn You About a Heart Attack: Erectile Dysfunction
A cardiologist's no-shame handbook: the 12 warning signs, the 10 blood tests your doctor isn't ordering, what to eat, what to skip, and the 30-day plan that beats the pill
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HELD BENEATH AN OPEN SKY
Sukkot, uncertainty, and the freedom of realizing we were never meant to carry everything alone.
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The Conversation Your Ears Stopped Joining
Mild hearing loss is easy to dismiss as “just getting older.” Large commissions now rank it among the biggest modifiable dementia risks—and most adults who could hear better still go untreated.
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The Question Your Success Never Asked
You built a life that works. Purpose is the quieter vital sign—linked in large cohorts to longer life, healthier hearts, and slower cognitive decline—and midlife is when the question gets honest.
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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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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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The Night Your Brain Keeps Missing
Untreated sleep apnea may be rewriting midlife memory—quietly, years before anyone says “dementia.”
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What the FDA Just Said About Testosterone for Women — And What It Didn’t
Two days ago, regulators revisited a hormone women have been quietly prescribed for years. Desire is real. The hype around everything else needs a cardiologist’s pen.
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