Around 1.8 million people every year opt for hip or knee replacements. But I don’t recommend surgery, unless it’s absolutely necessary. And new research reveals that in the month after …
Better than Aspirin for Your Heart
If you’ve been diagnosed with heart disease, the chances are you’ve been told to take low-dose aspirin every day as a preventative measure against heart attack and stroke. It’s most …
Visceral Fat Triggers Heart Disease
I tell my patients to avoid drinking soda not just because they make you fat. Each sip of soda affects your health. Soda puts you at risk for health problems …
Fast Relief For Heartburn
When heartburn hits, you need a fast and reliable way of dealing with the pain. But before you take another antacid, or prescription like Nexium, Prilosec, or Prevacid, there’s something …
Beware The Tea You Sip
Green tea has become the beverage of choice for people who want to live a long, healthy life. And the latest studies prove its power to fight cancer, Alzheimer’s disease …
Cholesterol: I Told You So!
Big Brother has finally come around to what I’ve been telling my patients for almost 30 years – stop worrying about cholesterol in your diet! The influential Dietary Guidelines Advisory …
Why You Should Avoid Statins
At my anti-aging clinic, I continue to wage war against what I call the “medical-industrial complex.” And I do it for one reason only – I care more about my …
Moving Day is Every Day
I know it’s kind of a necessity to sit at a computer these days. But sitting for long periods of time, whether it’s in front of a screen or otherwise, …
The Greatest Health Scam In History Used President Eisenhower As A Pawn
On June 24, 1956, the American Heart Association broadcasted a show on the three major television networks. It presented a new theory on heart disease: that is was caused by …
I Just Turned 58, But…
The knowledge that there’s a control mechanism for how we age takes the chains off of us. Telomere biology sets us free because we’re not just destined to do “what …
A Nutrition Pioneer
I got a great magazine in the mail last week. It’s a TIME special edition about all my heroes in science. Sir Isaac Newton, Einstein, Pasteur… I read a little …
Are Your Telomeres In Trouble?
Living in the 21st century affords you many luxuries. High-speed computers… cell phones… air conditioning and LCD TVs. But the chemicals and industrial solvents that make them possible are poisonous. …
PACE vs. HIIT
I asked D.M., “What makes PACE unique?” He said, “It’s a more intense way of doing interval train-”… I didn’t want to interrupt him but I had to stop D.M., …
Scared straight by statins
Have you heard of NNT? I wouldn’t be surprised if you hadn’t… it stands for “number needed to treat.” The number of people who have to take a drug for …
Cardiologists Bungle Blood Pressure
My old office manager J.F. was on beta-blockers for high blood pressure. I put her on a treadmill once to give her a test and nothing happened. She got extremely …
Nobel Prize-Winning Research Has Solved the Mystery of How We Age.
You are living on the threshold of a new era. When historians look back, they will mark this as the point in time when life on this planet fundamentally changed. …
What’s Most Important
I was sitting this morning thinking about what I was going to write to you, and I thought back to the reasons I write to you and the reasons you …
Olympic Oxygen
I think of my obligation to you like this: I have to improve your health. When I then think about how to do that for you, I come back to …