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The global Direct Primary Care market is expanding because the underlying economics finally favor patients and primary care physicians simultaneously. In the conventional fee-for-service model,[…]

The clinical pattern is familiar to any primary care physician who has seen patients in the years following the COVID-19 pandemic. A previously healthy adult[…]

As pollen counts peak in late May, patient inboxes fill with the familiar complaints of allergic rhinitis: nasal congestion, post-nasal drip, itchy eyes, fatigue, and[…]

Pulse wave velocity is the speed at which a pressure pulse generated by left ventricular ejection travels along the arterial tree. Measured noninvasively by tonometry[…]

Serotonin is most often discussed as a dietary product—the precursor amino acid tryptophan, the vitamin and mineral cofactors of its synthesis—but a crucial fact about[…]

A consistent finding across decades of epidemiological research is that adults who attend religious services regularly, or who maintain a sustained personal spiritual practice, live[…]

Cognitive reserve is the brain’s ability to maintain function in the face of pathology. The concept emerged from a series of autopsy studies in the[…]

The endothelium, the single-cell-thick lining of every blood vessel in the body, is not a smooth, sterile pipe. It is coated with a delicate, hair-like[…]

When Dan Buettner and the National Geographic team mapped the five Blue Zones—Okinawa, Sardinia, Nicoya, Loma Linda, and Ikaria—the dietary commonality across vastly different cultures[…]

The pancreas, like nearly every organ in the body, runs on a circadian schedule. Its beta cells contain the same molecular clock genes—BMAL1, CLOCK, PER1/2,[…]