Most people think of their genes as fixed. You inherit them, you’re stuck with them, and they determine a significant portion of what happens to your health as you age. That’s the common understanding — and it’s only partially correct. What’s less commonly understood is that genes are not just blueprints that execute automatically. They’re … Read more
I don’t have a medical degree. What I have is 15 years of paying close attention, a background in physics and chemistry that taught me how to evaluate evidence, and a personal experience that’s hard to argue with. Here’s what I’ve learned. Most health advice operates at the wrong level. It focuses on inputs — … Read more
Free radicals have a bad reputation. For decades, the health conversation around them has been simple: free radicals are dangerous, antioxidants neutralize them, therefore take antioxidants. The more the better. That story is incomplete — and the incomplete version has cost a lot of people a lot of money on supplements that aren’t doing what … Read more
You probably noticed it at some point. A cut that would have been gone in three days takes a week. Muscle soreness after a workout lingers longer than it used to. A cold that you would have shaken off in 48 hours drags on for ten days. You chalked it up to getting older. And … Read more
Most of what passes for health care — and most of what people spend their health budget on — is symptom management. That’s not a criticism. Symptom management has real value. If you have a headache, you want it gone. If you can’t sleep, you want to sleep. Managing symptoms makes life livable. But there’s … Read more
Cellular health has become a popular term. You see it on supplement labels, in wellness articles, in marketing for everything from multivitamins to infrared saunas. Like most popular health terms, the more it gets used, the less it seems to mean anything specific. So let’s be precise about it. Your body is made up of … Read more
There’s a biological clock most people don’t know about. It has nothing to do with fertility or gray hair. It has to do with a specific class of molecules your body produces inside every cell — molecules so fundamental to how your body works that when their production declines, almost everything else is affected. These … Read more
Most people notice it somewhere between their late 30s and mid-40s. Recovery from exercise takes longer. Sleep doesn’t restore you the way it used to. Small injuries linger. Energy has a ceiling it didn’t used to have. You’re not sick — you’re just not quite what you were. The common explanation is “aging.” And while … Read more
If you’ve never heard the term redox signaling, you’re not alone. It doesn’t come up in most health conversations — and that’s exactly why most people are missing a piece of the puzzle when it comes to how their body actually works. Redox signaling is how your cells talk to each other. Every second of … Read more
You’re doing everything right. You take your vitamins, you eat your blueberries, you spend good money on antioxidant supplements. And yet something still feels off. There’s a reason for that — and it has nothing to do with the quality of your antioxidants. Here’s what most people in the health space don’t talk about: antioxidants … Read more
