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Public Health · 6 min read ·

Outlive in 5 Minutes: Peter Attia's Plan to Train Now for the 90-Year-Old You Want to Be

Most of us will die slowly, after a frail final decade. Peter Attia's Outlive says medicine acts too late, and that you should prevent early and train now for the body you'll need at 90. Medicine 3.0, the Four Horsemen and his exercise plan, plus what holds up.

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Public Health · 5 min read ·

Your Brain Pays Your Body's Bills: What 200,000 Brain Scans Reveal

Across 200,000 brain scans, neuroscientist Paul Thompson keeps finding the body: weight, hormones, sleep and food all show up in the brain, and some changes fade with treatment. Here's what holds up, what's overstated, and what's a sales pitch.

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Public Health · 7 min read ·

Avoiding Dementia, It Starts With Your Blood Vessels

A Boston University neuropathologist who has examined thousands of brains explains the difference between dementia and Alzheimer's, why the pathology is far more common than the disease, and the unglamorous habits that build a brain resilient enough to carry damage without showing it.

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Public Health · 8 min read ·

Dr Sarah Berry: Why How You Eat Matters as Much as What You Eat

A nutrition scientist with 25 years of clinical trials explains why two foods with identical labels can affect your body completely differently, why seed oils are not the villain social media says, how slowing down cuts your calories without dieting, and what actually helps in menopause.

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Public Health · 9 min read ·

David Sinclair's Longevity Playbook, and the Fine Print

A Harvard geneticist lays out exactly what he does to slow his own aging, from skipping breakfast to a pill cabinet most people have never heard of. Here is the whole routine, the science he hangs it on, and the parts worth reading slowly.

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Premium Health · 7 min read ·

Can You Actually Reverse Aging? David Sinclair's Big Claims, Read Carefully

Harvard's David Sinclair says aging is a clock we can wind backward, and that the first human trials are already underway. Here is what he actually claimed, what has been tested, and every drug and supplement that came up, with the benefits and the fine print.

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Public Health · 12 min read ·

You Are Energy, Not a Machine

Neuroscientist Martin Picard has spent his life inside the mitochondria, the tiny engines that make you alive. His claim is radical and strangely freeing: you are not your body, you are the energy flowing through it, and almost everything that drains you, ages you, or sickens you is one problem

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Premium Health · 9 min read ·

The Fastest Way To Burn Dangerous Visceral Fat!

Cardiologist Pradip Jamnadas has treated a quarter of a million hearts, and he says we have been chasing the wrong villain. The real drivers of heart disease are inflammation and insulin, and most of the fix is on your plate. Here is what he says helps, and what quietly harms.

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Public Health · 8 min read ·

The Cancer Theory the Field Won't Accept

Biologist Thomas Seyfried argues that cancer is not a genetic disease but a metabolic one, rooted in damaged mitochondria, and that it can be managed by starving tumors of their fuel. It is a bold, contested claim that mainstream oncology does not accept. Here is his case, and the serious cavea

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Public Health · 8 min read ·

The Brain Is Just Another Organ

For forty years we treated the brain as a sealed-off mystery. Epidemiologist Tim Spector argues it is an organ like any other, fed and inflamed by the gut, and that the fix for mood, energy, and even dementia risk may start on your plate.

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Public Health · 12 min read ·

An Operating Manual for the Body

Neuroscientist Andrew Huberman has spent years turning the research on sleep, light, stress, and exercise into a set of daily protocols anyone can run. Most of them are free, and most of them start in the first hour of your day.

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