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Introduction If you’ve been following this trilogy, this is the grand finale! In the first article, we established that muscle is far more than tissue that moves your skeleton. It’s a signaling organ that communicates with your brain, your liver, your immune system, and your fat tissue. Lose muscle, and in addition to losing strength, [read more]

Midlife Reset Series, Part 2 In the first article of this three-part series, “Midlife Reset: Captain Muscle, Steering Health in Midlife,” we talked about muscle as more than strength. Muscle helps us move with power and agility, but it also acts like an organ. It sends out helpful signals that can lower inflammation and communicate [read more]

Midlife Reset Series, Part 1 Introduction Distinct changes start happening to our bodies in our forties, and then again in our fifties and beyond. I wake up with “bed injuries.” I’m sore for two days after going out dancing. And I’ll be honest, I haven’t fully embraced aging. Some days, it just sucks. Midlife is [read more]

Cut through the noise of health research December 17, 2025 In my last article, “Why 80 Doesn’t Feel Old in Japan,” I shared the reflections and lessons I gathered from watching how Japanese physicians approach illness—and how everyday Japanese habits function as a form of quiet, powerful preventive medicine. In this piece, I want to take you [read more]

What Japan can teach us about the quiet art of longevity The video of Sen Genshitsu, a centenarian master of Japanese tea ceremony, was taken by my mother, one of his students. He performed that ceremony for his own 100th birthday. He lived to 102. He attributed his longevity to drinking green tea and maintaining good [read more]