Essays by Dr. Afshine Emrani
Writings
Medicine, longevity, faith, culture, and the questions that make a life worth examining.
Stop Fearing Cholesterol. Start Reading It.
LDL, HDL, triglycerides, and why the story is more useful than the scare
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Twelve Things I Tell Women Before They Turn 60
My twelve rules for women in their 50s — the hour-long conversation no one has time to give you in a seven-minute appointment.
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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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What Makes You Age. What Makes You Younger. The Science Is In, and Most of You Are on the Wrong Side.
The most complete review of nutrition and biological age ever published. What to change in your own kitchen.
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How Smart People Waste an Entire Life
The three traps that keep intelligent people stuck for decades, the physiology behind each one, and the formula for getting out.
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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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The Cure Has a Boarding Pass: Designer Cancer Cures!
Cancer used to take the rich and the poor alike. This summer, in Shanghai, that quietly stopped being true — as a new medicine, read from your own tumor and printed to order, began sorting the dying i
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