Outlive

The past need not dictate the future. Your longevity is more malleable than you think.

also, people of African descent tend to have higher levels of Lp(a), on average, than Caucasians. This is why, if you have a history of premature heart attacks in your family, you should definitely ask for an Lp(a) test.

He penned an autobiographical tract that he called “Discourses on the Sober Life,”

This is why I insist my patients undergo a DEXA scan annually—and I am far more interested in their visceral fat than their total body fat.

When we metabolize fructose, along with certain other types of foods, it produces large amounts of uric acid, which is best known as a cause of gout but which has also been associated with elevated blood pressure.

Because in this scenario, you are no longer a passenger on the ship; you are its captain.

Our first and most obvious wish is to avoid getting cancer at all, like the centenarians—in other words, prevention.

Second, Medicine 3.0 considers the patient as a unique individual.

advocate early, aggressive, and broad screening for my patients—such as colonoscopy (or other colorectal cancer screening) at age forty, as opposed to the standard recommendation of forty-five or fifty—because the evidence is overwhelming that it’s much easier to deal with most cancers in their early stages.

By cleansing our cells of damaged proteins and other cellular junk, autophagy allows cells to run more cleanly and efficiently and helps make them more resistant to stress. But as we get older, autophagy declines.