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The Code of Rejuvenation: To Cheat Death or Make Peace With It

By Axel F. Sigurdsson, MD, PhD | June 11, 2025

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

Heart Palpitations Explained: Causes, Diagnosis, and When to Worry

By Axel F. Sigurdsson, MD, PhD | June 6, 2025

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

The Heart of Power – Episode 6: The Ride Into the Sunset

By Axel F. Sigurdsson, MD, PhD | June 4, 2025

The sun hung low over the Santa Ynez Mountains, casting long shadows across the California hills. Ronald Reagan sat tall in the saddle, reins loose in his weathered hands. He still rode most mornings—slowly, deliberately—but with the easy grace of a man who had spent a lifetime playing cowboys and governors and presidents, until the … Read more

The Sugar Papers: How Industry Shaped Science—and Changed Heart Disease Policy

By Axel F. Sigurdsson, MD, PhD | May 28, 2025

A forgotten folder. A cryptic label. And a quiet set of instructions that may have rewritten the rules of modern medicine. This story doesn’t start with a discovery—it begins with a cover-up. Not in a lab or at a press conference, but deep in the shadows, in an archive no one was supposed to search. … Read more

When the Medicine Becomes the Malady: The Story of Christopher Wunsch

By Axel F. Sigurdsson, MD, PhD | May 22, 2025

A young life, unraveled by a rare reaction to a common drug — and what it reveals about statins, mitochondria, and the quiet risks medicine often overlooks. Christopher Wunsch was 29 — healthy, ambitious, and thriving in a career he loved. As a critical care nurse, he knew the stakes of cardiovascular disease. So when … Read more

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