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A Look Back at Our Healthcare System Progress in 2023

Healthcare Advocacy: For What and for Whom?

Happy Holidays: Let's Take the Day Off!

One More Shot at Vaccination Facts

Longevity for Dummies: Vaccines Work!!

People in Costa Rica Live Longer Than We Do

Primary Care For All Americans

Your High Costs for Diabetes Drugs: Making the Consolidate Appropriations Act Work for You

Rational Healthcare Benefit Design for Self-insured Employers

Food for the Holidays: Knock Yourself Out!

Bringing World Class Medical Care to Smaller Towns

Health Care Should Most Closely Resemble Community Water Systems

Our Healthcare System IS RIGGED Against You! The Drug Price Example

Everything You Need to Do Depends on Your Health

Everything That I Love Depends on My Health

Have a Great Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving For Medical Science, Truth, and Facts

The American Heart Association (AHA) Updates Metabolic Syndrome: Now it is the Cardiovascular-Kidney-Metabolic Syndrome

The Consolidated Appropriations Act: A Path to Better Health at Lower Costs Now

For Women: The New Promising Science on Osteoporosis

Fragile Femurs, Falls, and Fractures

Long Stays in the Emergency Room are Dangerous to Your Health

Increase Weight Loss Hormone Without Paying $15,000 a Year To Inject It

Fixing American Healthcare

Healthcare Costs Are Making Americans Sicker and Poorer

Proof That Intermittent Fasting Works and Caloric Restriction Doesn’t

You Can Easily Improve Healthcare Where You Live

We Pay Much More for Care That Does Not Serve Us

The Swamp Exists: It is Just Not What You Think!

Medical Advertising is a Horrible Source of Health Information

My Apologies

Drug Prices: Clear Evidence of a Broken US Healthcare System

Women and Heart Artery Disease: The Specific Research on Differences In Women Has Been Done

Ordinary Men

Proof in Humans that Inhibiting mTOR Prolongs Healthy Life by 11%

Interested in a Longer, Healthier Life: The Definitive Podcast on Rapamycin

Interested in a Longer, Healthier Life: The Definitive Podcast on Rapamycin

Debra Horne: A Real Food Success Story

We Act as if The Obesity Epidemic Has No Solution

Dr. George Lundberg on the American Medical-Industrial Complex That Makes Us Fat and Sick

Native Americans Have the Lowest Life Expectancy in the US

Big Food Companies Continue to Make Us Fatter and Sicker

Big Tobacco Bought Big Food Companies and Made Your Children Sick

Osteoarthritis Is a Metabolic Disease

The Awful Price of Winning at any Cost

Want to Diagnose Artery Disease Early? Just Check the Blood Pressure!

Americans Are Right: We Can’t Trust Some Major Institutions

Processed Food, Fast Food, and Obesity: The Cardiac Chickens Are Coming Home to Roost

It’s Indisputable: Heart Failure is a Too Little Too Late Disease

Heart Failure is a Metabolic Disease

Your Health System Doesn’t Want You to Understand Their Charges

Employers! You Work to Achieve Lean Six Sigma

The Link Between Aging, Longevity, and the Biology of Alzheimer’s Disease

How Old Can Humans Get?

Abdominal Fat Is the Largest Gland in the Body: You Do Have a Hormonal Problem!

Man With Recently Diagnosed Type 2 Diabetes Not on Metformin

Don’t Ignore Patients Over 75

A Doctor Who Doesn’t Get It: How Our System Fails Patients with Chronic Disease

“Landmark Trial” of the New Cardiovascular Drug Finerenone-Not!!

A Patient-centered Solution to the Primary Care Crisis

Walking the Walk

Oxidants, Metabolic Memory, and Chronic Diseases

Metabolic Memory and Epigenetics: The Most Important New Science to Inform Chronic Disease Management

The Train is Leaving the Station: The First Big Suit Addressing the Consolidated Appropriations Act.

Medical Disinformation

Lisa Marie Presley Died of Complications of Weight Loss Surgery

Systemness as the Key to Better Health at Lower Cost

Self-management: A Key to Success in Treating Chronic Illness

Shared Decision Making: A Great Idea That Needs More Work!

Abdominal Surgery: Buyer Beware!

Spine Surgery: Buyer Beware!

Maintenance vs Repair

There Are Worse Things Than Dying

The French, Reason, and Our Irrational Healthcare System

A New Paradigm for Drug Research

Drug Company Money and Our Dysfunctional Healthcare System

Breaking News: TV Ads Are a Horrible Source of Health Information

Addressing the Diseases of Excess Weight Much More Effectively: Another Form of Precision Medicine

Independence Day, American Medical Leadership, and Healthcare Reform

My Heart Health Challenge This Week: We’re All in the Same Boat

A Proven Path to Better Health at Lower Cost in the United States

A Great Story in American Healthcare

The One Ring, Frodo, and American Healthcare

Mitigating the Effects of Serious Chronic Illness

Once You Have a Serious Chronic Disease, You are Never the Same

Metformin Lowers the Risk of Long COVID

Zombie Cells: Another Contributor to More Rapid Aging and Chronic Illness

Taking the First Steps with Health Direct Partners

If You Want Better Health Care: Own It!

A Unifying Hypothesis of Chronic Disease and Aging

Do You Care About a Longer Healthier Life?

The Updated Case for Optimal Medical Therapy

Another Deadly Cowboy Commercial: This Time Aimed at Children

It’s a Holiday. Let’s Lighten It Up a Little!

Your Employer-Sponsored Health Plan Is Required by Law to Serve You Better

The Common Origins of Heart Artery Disease and Lung Cancer

Screening For Lung Cancer

Maternal Mortality is Three Times as High in Black Women

The Ghost In Your Genes: Epigenetics is the New Frontier in Medicine

Three Hundred Drugs Are in Short Supply in the United States

Glioblastoma, Aging, and Other Chronic Diseases are Related

Medicine is a Team Sport: My 50th Medical School Class Reunion

Processed Food, Anxiety, Depression, and Dementia

Be Sure Your Blood Pressure Reading is Accurate

WSJ on Rapamycin to Promote a Longer Healthier Life

It’s Not as Safe to Have a Child in Oklahoma

Autoimmune Disease, Weight, and Treatment Response

Leptin: A Hormone That Controls Appetite

It’s Not Your Fault: Certain Foods Make You Fat

New Weight Loss Drugs Can Cost $15,000 a Year

The Scientific Method and Medicine

Join me on Notes

Medical Care That is Of, For, and By the People

Politics and the Existential Threat to American Medical Science

Health Insurance Doesn't Work Like Other Businesses

The Existential Threat to American Medical Science

The Hourglass of Life

You Can Live a Longer Healthier Life Now!

Statins Dramatically Reduce Death and Heart Attack in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes

Reduced Insulin Prices and Type 2 Diabetes

Roots of Depression- Molecular Biology

Roots of Depression: Adverse Childhood Experiences

Major Life Stresses and Depression

Roots of Depression: Perfectionism and Disappointment

The Same Risk Factors Contribute to Depression, Anxiety, and Cardiovascular Disease

Living With a Serious Illness

Relieve the Most Common Form of Vertigo at Home

Eighty-five Percent of Type 2 Diabetes Management Could Be Remote

It Took A Little Longer

New Proposed FDA Regulations Make Food Healthier: Big Food Pushes Back!

More Disinformation From the Wall Street Journal

Human Life Science Information Every Teenager Should Know

Cutting Medicare and Medicaid Will Cost You More Money

Achieving Health Literacy

The Wall Street Journal and Dietary Disinformation

Teledoc Health Loses $13.7 Billion Last Year Due to Plummeting Value of Livongo

Making a Difference in Congestive Heart Failure

New FDA Requirements for Healthy Food Label

Bad News and Good News In Congestive Heart Failure

More Proof of The Way Forward

Hard Proof Our Systems Increase Optimal Medical Therapy Production in Primary Care

Insanity: Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result

Bringing the Science Back Into American Medical Practice

The Master Metabolic Genetic Switches of Life and Death

Evidence-based Care Processes Consistent With Best Practices

Did Teledoc Buy a Lemon When It Purchased Livongo?

The Existential Threat of Greed in Healthcare

Periodontal Disease: Chicken or Egg?

Long-haul Truckers and Patient-centered Care

Teams in Medicine

Translating the Latest Science and Technology

We Know How Metabolic Memory Works

An Expanded and Revised concept of Metabolic Memory In Diabetes

Evolution, Epigenetics, and Darwin’s Finches

The ShiftShapers Podcast EP #434: A Doctor's View of Value-Based Healthcare — with William Bestermann, Jr. MD

Statins, Residual Cardiovascular Risk, and Metformin

The Risk of "Diabetic" Complications Begins at a Lower Sugar Level

More on Abdominal Fat, Aldosterone, and Chronic Disease

Type 2 Diabetes is Not Just a Sugar Disease

The Rate of Aging is Not Fixed!