The Heart of Power – Episode 4: Built to Stand, Bound to Fall
“There’ll be great presidents again… but there’ll never be another Camelot.” … Read more
General Health
The Explorer Who Ate Only Meat—and Lived to Tell the Tale
In the winter of 1906, somewhere north of the Arctic Circle, a young explorer named Vilhjalmur Stefansson sat cross-legged in an igloo, surrounded by Inuit hunters. Outside, the wind cut like a knife, shrieking across the frozen plain. Inside, the flickering light of seal oil lamps cast dancing shadows on the snow-packed walls. The air … Read more
The Heart of Power – Episode 2: The Golf Course Heart Attack
Behind the HeadlinesHe was the Supreme Commander. The five-star general. The man who won a world war and calmed a divided nation. But on a golf course in Colorado, Dwight D. Eisenhower was brought to his knees by a silent threat building for decades. In this episode of The Heart of Power, we examine the … Read more
The Heart of Power – Episode 1: When Metabolic Disease Entered the Oval Office
Behind the HeadlinesHe wasn’t lazy. He was fighting a chronic disease no one had words for. In this first episode of The Heart of Power, we explore the personal cost of medical blind spots—and the legacy of a misunderstood patient. “It took four men to pull the president from the bathtub.” The newspapers had a … Read more
Can a Mother’s Diet Shape a Child’s Mind? What a New Study Suggests
Most of what I write here on Doc’s Opinion sticks pretty closely to cardiology — that’s my usual beat, after all. But every now and then, a study comes along that pulls me out of that lane. This is one of those. The paper published recently in Nature Metabolism looks at how a mother’s diet … Read more
