Part Two of Here Comes the Sun: The Extraordinary Benefits of Circadian Health I’m Walking on Sunshine (And Don’t It Feel Good!)— Katrina and the Waves The health benefits of real sunlight and the pleasure of dawn At the heart of circadian health is your...
Part One – Morning light: what works and what doesn’t I’m Walking on Sunshine (And Don’t It Feel Good!)— Katrina and the Waves Part One – Morning light: what works and what doesn’t When the sun rises, it flips your brain’s natural “wake-up” switch....
by James Katz, MD, MPH Two months ago, I got a call from Sam North at Quest Diagnostics. The Cleveland Clinic had launched a new Preventive Medicine program with Quest, and based on our lab profile, Age Management Boston stood out. When Bob and I started the practice,...
Accuweather reports tree pollen levels are EXTREME. Maple, Poplar, Juniper, and Pine trees are expelling huge quantities of pollen. The sort of weather that we’ve experienced here — darker and colder and wetter than usual, and then sudden bright, warmer, and...
RFK Jr Is Wondering… The GLP-1 Drugs* Cost 35 Billion Dollars in 2023 *(Wegovy, Monjaro, Ozempic, and Zepbound) Why should we spend a fortune to treat diseases which could be prevented in the first place? Forty percent of the US population is obese,...
The Problem: Fish do not make Omega-3 Oil. The omega 3 oil in fish is made by ALGAE. Evolution started 650 million years ago when bacteria teamed with photosynthetic algae. The leap in energy produced the first multicellular organisms. 66 million years...
Exercise can be as potent as any medicine, in this case preventing Parkinson’s Disease progression. Doctor David Blacker is a neurologist in Australia. He was a career marathon runner and the height of fitness. By his 40th birthday, he developed persistent pain in his...
Your mother was right There are 5.6 million Americans with Alzheimer’s type memory loss. The disease has a variable course, and the ambiguity can be agonizing. Those identified at an early stage face the decision to take intravenous antibody drugs at great...
Not so fast buddy. The “good” HDL hypothesis came from the Framingham heart study. It would be the second from smallest particle in the picture above. It identified Low Density Lipoprotein as a risk for heart disease. The citizens of Framingham smoked, drank, consumed...
This is the first of several posts about food. After that, I have a review of the state of anti-aging medicine, which remains the world of notions, potions, lotions, and much more. Ray Kurzweil, takes 250 supplements a day, David Sinclair, of resveratrol fame, is down...
In June, an advisory panel to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recommended that the next round of Covid-19 boosters be targeted against the Omicron XBB.1.5 subvariant. Pfizer, Moderna and Novavax will use the same platforms to manufacture the new boosters...
God showed Noah by the rainbow sign, no more water, but fire next time. Fire Next Time Lyrics by Rev. Milton Brunson Wildfires produce ozone, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, volatile organic compounds, volatile heavy metals, and fine particulate...
