2023-07-13 14:44
Is nitrate carcinogenic or cardioprotective? Let’s dive into a controversy that pits health organisations against themselves.A few days ago, I came across an alarmist blog post w… Read More
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Our best bet for healthy aging is to escape the flawed health care system. It makes disease treatment more profitable than prevention. It neglects aging as a treatable cause of diseases. And it denies access to personalized lifestyle medicine. This blog is about how you can overcome these limitations. It is about challenging half-truths and outdated ideas. It is focused on evidence-based, personalized lifestyle medicine for lifelong health. Delivered by a feisty public health scientist.
2023-07-10 16:17
Why you shouldn't blindly trust the numbers that define hypertension.You've probably heard that 130/80 is the new threshold to hypertension. But what if I told you that this number is not ba… Read More
2023-07-08 08:33
When Monica, a 50 years-old mother of two, visited her doctor for a routine check-up she was told her blood pressure was 142/83 mmHg. That made her hypertensive, at least in the eyes o… Read More
2023-07-06 12:51
The answer might surprise you, not to mention a lot of people who have been labeled chronically ill.Because that’s what it really amounts to:Hypertension is a chronic disease, or rathe… Read More
2019-04-05 09:21
Through robustification!By making your cardiovascular system robust against aging.Systems biology defines robustness as “… a property that allows a system to maintain its functi… Read More
2019-03-19 08:32
I have been asked this question often enough to address it here.Whether, and to which extent intermittent fasting (IF) transforms human health still needs to be seen, but there are some in… Read More
2019-03-10 16:18
This whole „superfood“ thing is way overblown. It is not just overblown, it is an outright confession of failure.A confession of failure on the part of preventive medicine. Or… Read More
2018-07-19 10:35
Today, the German media are treating us to science-gate. A story about pseudoscientific studies, predatory journals and their publishers.With the typical subliminal insinuations of an e… Read More
2018-07-19 08:09
Mit sogenannten Recherchen und Reportagen über pseudowissenschaftliche Studien und scheinwissenschaftliche Verlage ziehen schadenfreudige Journalisten heute den deutschen Wissenschaftsb… Read More
2018-07-08 09:47
The first person to live up to 150 years has already been born.That's what Steven Austad, David Sinclair and Stuart Kim think. All three are Professors: Of Biology, of Genetics and of D… Read More
2018-07-02 08:00
Remember the movie Cocoon? Some nursing home residents accidentally discover the rejuvenating force of benevolent alien visitors. In the end they are given a choice:join the aliens for a sup… Read More
2018-06-26 10:34
First, do no harm! It's a pledge that medicine does not live up to. Much of what medical science offers, be it a drug, a treatment or some advice about supplements or diets, will p… Read More
2012-09-03 05:30
A 95 years old psychology article holds the key to solving the obesity epidemic. It's not about a long forgotten medicine or an ancient psycho-trick. It's a simple observation about the dyna… Read More
2012-08-20 05:30
Evolutionary selection favored those who became fat easily. That's the essence of the "thrifty gene hypothesis". It's like Madonna. On the wrong side of 50, and ripe to be dethroned by somet… Read More
2012-08-06 05:30
Public health has been telling you for years: you are fat because you move too little and eat too much. And yes, it's your fault if you don't break a sweat every day to keep your waist line… Read More
2012-07-24 08:56
Salt and fat kill you early, and your BMI tells you how early. That has been the wisdom for years, but wisdoms have an expiry date, too. Particularly medical wisdoms. Recent research says th… Read More
2012-07-23 05:30
Salt and fat kill you early, and your BMI tells you how early. That has been the wisdom for years, but wisdoms have an expiry date, too. Particularly medical wisdoms. Recent research says th… Read More
2012-07-16 05:30
From "man is made to move" to "man is not made to sit" is a very recent transition of scientific insight. Let's get our readers panicked over more than not doing exercise, is the response of… Read More
2012-07-09 05:30
Nutritionists claim they are doing science, consumers buy it, and the supplements industry makes a healthy living from it. Only you probably won't. Here is why: [tweet this]. One of th… Read More
2012-06-28 05:30
Giving the polypill to everybody above the age of 55 kills two birds with one stone: cardiovascular risk and preventive medicine. That's what the proponents of the polypill say. The medical… Read More
2012-06-25 05:30
If weather forecasts were as reliable as cardiovascular risk prediction tools, meteorologists would miss two thirds of all hurricanes, expect rain for 8 out of 10 sunny days, and fail to see… Read More
2012-06-21 06:14
Research says yes, public health doesn't listen, and you suffer the consequences: too little benefits from generic interventions. And it could be so simple.Different people always react diff… Read More
2012-06-18 05:30
Exercise may actually be bad for you! A professor says he stumbled upon this "potentially explosive" insight. The New York Times has been quick to peddle it. And couch potatoes descend on it… Read More
2012-06-14 05:30
In the fight over best diet for health and weight loss, it's protein lovers vs. vegetarian zealots. So far, a clear winner has not emerged. Only one loser: you, the victim of biased research… Read More
2012-06-11 05:30
The media says yes. Science says maybe. In the end, you decide. Here are the facts:A truffle treatment for heart disease is imminent. That's what a recent article suggests, headlined in the… Read More
2012-06-07 05:30
With the decoding of the human genome came the hope of getting a lever on the chronic diseases, which kill most of us today: heart disease, stroke, diabetes and many cancers. And since overw… Read More
2012-06-04 05:30
Lack of time is the most often cited excuse for not exercising. I deliberately chose the word "excuse" over its less judgmental alternative "obstacle". Simply because I cannot see an "obstac… Read More
2012-05-31 05:30
Let's face it, if exercise was really that much fun, everybody would do it and we wouldn't be fat, diabetic or die of heart disease. So when your doctor tells you that you better start exerc… Read More
2012-05-28 05:30
Briefly: If I had to name the one word, that is most often used to label something as what it is not, my vote would go to "healthy". Whether it's the issue of sugar vs. honey, of butter vs… Read More
2012-05-24 05:30
BrieflyThere were always two types of cholesterol, the good and the bad. Until now. A large new study tells us that good cholesterol might have been an impostor. That's food for the medi… Read More
2012-05-21 05:30
In my previous post I promised to talk about your individualized way to achieving optimal health. If that made you think about personalized medicine, you were right. Almost. Because personal… Read More
2012-05-18 05:30
You have heard about good and bad cholesterol. You have heard that increasing the former and reducing the latter will cut your risk of heart disease. You will now hear what's principally wro… Read More
2012-05-14 05:30
When a pharmaceutical company tells you that its drug is safer than it really is, it probably plays with your health. And possibly with your life. That's not a very nice thing to do. But it'… Read More
2012-05-10 05:30
That your fattening lifestyle drives health insurance costs up is nothing but a fat lie. That much I have told you in the previous post. With Marlboro Man and Ronald McDonald doing better fo… Read More
2012-05-07 05:30
Would you have guessed that, one fine day, health insurers will regret the demise of big tobacco and its contribution to health care costs? Would you have guessed that, when that day arrives… Read More
2012-05-02 05:30
They say, statistics lie. That's a bad rep for a science, which has no other aspiration than that of making sense from data, of discovering an association between salt intake and stroke, of… Read More
2012-04-30 05:30
Imagine a medicine which protects you against cardiovascular disease, cancers, diabetes, depression and dementia. A medicine which works best when taken regularly and long before any symptom… Read More
2012-04-27 05:30
If you don't die from an accident, a serious infection or a cancer, you'll live as long as your arteries let you. And how long they let you is all in your hands. I know this sounds over-simp… Read More
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