Because Good Medicine Deserves Better Explanations
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
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
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