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Coronary calcium score is a simple, non-invasive scan that reveals hidden plaque and helps predict your risk of heart disease. Your cholesterol may look perfect. You may feel healthy. But silently, beneath the surface, plaque can build inside your coronary arteries — and you’d never know it. That’s where the coronary calcium score (CAC score) … Read more
I didn’t plan to write about the Sunday Blues.
But while recently referencing Viktor Frankl, the Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, and Holocaust survivor, I came across a line that stopped me:
“Sunday neurosis… the kind of depression which afflicts people who become aware of the lack of content in their lives when the rush of the busy week is over.”
— Man’s Search for Meaning
The TG/HDL-C Ratio in Clinical Context For decades, cholesterol has been the headline act in our understanding of heart disease. High LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) — the so-called “bad” cholesterol — was cast as the main villain, while HDL-cholesterol (HDL-C) earned praise as the “good” kind. Statins became the blockbuster therapy, and LDL-C targets the cornerstone of … Read more
Anti-aging science is no longer fringe. It’s a serious, fast-growing field — from metabolism and molecular repair to cellular resilience and epigenetics. But around that science, a new ethos is emerging — a code for how we age, what we optimize, and how we define a life well-lived. But around that science, a marketplace has … Read more
Understanding Heart Palpitations: A Cardiologist’s Perspective It often begins in the quiet.You’re lying in bed, winding down from the day. Maybe you’re reading, perhaps just drifting off.And then, your heart leaps. A flutter.A jolt.A sudden thump that wasn’t there a moment ago. Your mind scrambles: Was that a skipped beat? Is something wrong with my … Read more