Are GLP-1 Medications Destroying Your Muscle? Here Is What the Research Actually Shows.

The muscle wasting narrative around Ozempic and Wegovy has been everywhere. A 2026 study in Cell Reports Medicine just put it to the test with four preclinical studies and a human clinical trial.

If you or some...

Is Alcohol Safe for Your Heart? Here Is What the Science Actually Shows.

Decades of reassuring headlines about red wine and heart health have not aged well. Let's go through the real data, study by study.

Is alcohol safe for your heart? We have been told since the 1990s that red wine may offer som...

The Largest Meta Analysis Of Randomized Controlled Trials On Exercise And Heart Disease Outcomes Was Just Published

The largest study o exercise dropped. It's a meta analysis of only randomized control trials. Randomized control trials are the highest level of evidence. A meta analysis is an overvi...

New Non Steroidal Mineralocorticoid Receptor Antagonists In Heart Failure

There is a class of medications with decades of evidence behind them, a Class I guideline recommendation for heart failure, and mortality data that most drugs would envy. And yet they are prescribed to fewer than one in three...

Treating Two Types of Heart Failure: HFpEF and HFrEF In 2026

What Is Heart Failure? I get asked this every day.

Heart failure doesn't mean the heart has stopped working. Instead, it means the heart isn't pumping blood as well as it should. This causes fluid to build up in the body, leading to symp...

Comparing the ACC/AHA Guidelines To The European EAS Guidelines: Cholesterol Treatment

Just a few months apart, the Europeans and Americans have released Dyslipidemia Treatment Guidelines. They are getting closer to matching what myself and Dr. Thomas Dayspring published in 2023 in the Cholesterol ...

The Cholesterol Time Bomb: Why Young, Healthy People Still Get Heart Disease

Can young, healthy, metabolically pristine individuals get heart disease if all they have is high LDL? I get asked this question a lot and it has been tested and studied extensively.

What if you have no insulin resistance...

Does Berberine Work for Diabetes? Here's What the Science Actually Shows

If you've been researching natural approaches to managing type 2 diabetes, you've likely come across berberine. It's a compound extracted from various plants and has been used in traditional medicine for thousands of years. Su...

Your LDL Is Not a Snapshot. It Is a Running Total.

Let me ask you something. If your LDL came back at 110 mg/dL today, would you be worried? Most doctors would shrug. That number is not flagged. You might get a recommendation to watch your diet and come back in a year.

But here is the question you...

How to Lift for Strength, Muscle, and a Longer Life: What the Newest Science Actually Says

You already know that resistance training is good for you. But I want to talk about something more specific:

How to do it. Not just "lift weights" as a vague wellness suggestion, but the actual prescription....