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NEWEST FIRSTADHD Is Not a Superpower. I Have It, and So Does My Son.
A doctor who missed his own ADHD for 40 years, and the son who has it too. What the science really says about the "superpower," and what actually helps.
02I Ate Raw Sauerkraut by the Jar for 20 Years. Then I Read the Trials.
I ate raw sauerkraut for two decades, sure it was medicine. Then I read every trial. Fine to eat, but its reputation ran far ahead of the evidence.
03I Took Fish Oil for 10 Years. I Was Taking the Wrong Half.
I took fish oil for 10 years and was dosing the wrong half. A doctor on EPA vs DHA, the test that ends the guessing, and how to read the label.
04I Told a Parent Group My Daughter Was Missing. It Was a Joke.
Laughter is the best medicine is mostly a myth. What a real laugh actually does to your body, the four humor styles, and why the audience decides.
05The Night a Wearable Would Score as a Failure
Alcohol is not good for you, and obsessing over your tracker is worse. A doctor on the real drivers of a long life, and why the dinner matters more.
06He Named a Surgery He Couldn't See: A Doctor's Audit of 5,000 Years of Chinese Medicine
Is Chinese medicine ancient wisdom or elaborate theater? It is both. A doctor separates what survives the evidence from what can give you cancer.
07The Hollow Win: What the Climb Costs You by Forty-Seven
You can win every game and feel nothing the next morning. The three inner drives behind midlife emptiness, and how to audit which one runs you.
08At 47, I Was Supposed to Be at the Bottom. My 12-Year-Old Might Get There First.
For decades happiness bottomed out at 47. New data shows the floor moved to the young. What changed, and how to protect a midlifer and a teen at once.
09The Twenty Percent: Where AI Stops and Your Doctor Starts
ChatGPT handles 80% of what your doctor does with your bloodwork. The 20% it misses can cost you a decade, and the nightly habit wrecking your sleep.
10The Recovery Tool I Stopped Using at 25 and Should Have Kept
Massage does not flush lactic acid or lower cortisol. What it actually does for muscle, fascia, and your nervous system, and why desk workers need it.
11Three Bikes, Four Habits. How I Pick the Four Things When the Week Tries to Break Me
A doctor's filter for health overload: three questions, four habits, no more. How to cut the noise and keep only what survives a chaotic week.
12The Names I Forget: A Confession, a Dogma, and Some New Wiring
Your adult brain grows 700 new neurons a day. A 100-year argument just ended, and the four habits that decide the brain you will have at 75.
13The Healthy Guy Who Almost Died
Looking healthy is not being healthy. Five heart tests, mostly left out of your checkup, that flag silent disease ten years before it strikes.
14I Tried Botox. It Didn't Work. That's Not the Point.
Caring how you look is not vanity, it is biology. A surgeon ranks what actually works for your face, skin, hair, and teeth, and what to skip.
15You Already Know What to Do. That Was Never the Problem.
You do not have an information problem, you have an execution debt. Why elite health protocols fail busy professionals, and the one-action fix.
16Why We Die: The Midlife Risk Factors You Can See and the Ones You Can't
What actually kills people in their 40s, ranked. Why the deadliest risks wear the mask of productivity, and the two that cost nothing to fix.
17Your Bones Peaked at 30. Nobody Checked.
Cardio does nothing for your bones. Why bone loss starts in your 30s, the scan you have never had, and the heavy lifting that reverses it.
18Sexual Health Is a Vital Sign. We Just Don't Treat It Like One.
The biomarker no executive physical checks. How sexual function flags heart disease years early, plus the meds that quietly suppress the signal.
19I'm a Doctor. I Know Exactly What Ultra-Processed Food Does. My Kids Still Want KitKats.
Childhood health habits track for 80 years. The four that matter, why structure beats explanation, and how to build them wherever you live.
20Surrounded and Starving: The Hidden Biology of Leadership Loneliness
Loneliness rewrites your genes and suppresses immunity. Why connected leaders are still isolated, and the single relationship that reverses it.
21Leadership Under Load: Why Your Best People (Including You) Can’t Sustain What They Start
Stop telling yourself to push through. The real science of motivation, discipline, and habits, and how to keep performing when your routine breaks.
22Bloodwork That Matters: A Calm, Non-Hyped Executive Guide
Stop paying for 100-marker panels. A doctor breaks down the handful of blood tests worth running, what to skip, and how to avoid false positives.
23Trust Your Gut: The Trillion-Microbe Engine You’re Ignoring
Skip the $300 gut test. Here is how your microbiome really works, why most probiotics backfire, and the 3 daily habits that build it.