Addressing the key determinants of health, beyond healthcare.

In this month’s newsletter, I briefly touched on a concept I call “health auditing.” I wanted to expand on it here because I think it offers a useful middle ground in our increasingly data-saturated health culture. Sleep tracking, fitness tracking, calorie counting, and even advanced blood testing have become mainstream over the last few years, and already we’re starting to see the debate pick up as to how helpful (or harmful) these approaches truly are. While there are obvio

Many of us probably already have a sense of why we should be healthy and encourage health among the population, though we so often lose sight of our motivations behind this. I am as guilty as anyone of occasionally slipping up on my habits, and I have found that the solution tends to trace back to reconnecting with my purpose for the behavior. In other words, I have to take a step back and remember what I am optimizing for by doing these things. This is the sort of conversati

From viral TikTok posts to direct endorsements from the Secretary of Health and Human Services, people are talking about peptides as the next big thing in the field of medicine. Let’s start by clarifying that a peptide is simply a short chain of amino acids (typically in the range of 2-50 amino acids), whereas a protein is a longer chain of amino acids (typically 50+). Just as proteins are an incredibly broad, diverse class of molecules, the same is true about peptides. Thus,