Articles

Evidence, without the noise.

Physician-authored articles on the topics our patients ask about most — cardiometabolic health, obesity medicine, and hormonal health. Every claim is referenced to peer-reviewed research or major clinical guidelines.

Preventive cardiology

What a high ApoB means, and how to lower it.

Why particle count predicts heart attacks better than LDL cholesterol, what counts as high, and the evidence-based steps that actually bring it down.

Preventive cardiology

What to do when your Lp(a) is elevated.

It is genetic, lifelong, and no approved drug has yet been shown to lower events. So what changes is everything else — starting with your ApoB target.

Cardiometabolic health

Can type 2 diabetes go into remission? What the evidence shows.

Remission is real, measurable, and achievable for some — but the details matter. The DiRECT trial, the formal criteria, who benefits most, and how an attempt is actually run.

Obesity medicine

How to keep your muscle on a GLP-1.

A meaningful share of the weight lost on these medications is lean mass — and that part is largely preventable. Protein targets, training volume, and pace.

Obesity medicine

GLP-1 medications: the risks and questions worth asking first.

Side effects, contraindications, the thyroid and pancreatitis questions, muscle loss, and what happens when you stop — the honest answers the marketing skips.

Hormonal health

Testosterone recovery after steroids: what post-cycle therapy actually involves.

The recovery timeline, why forum PCT protocols fail, what supervised post-cycle therapy looks like, and the fertility question men ask too late.

Hormonal health

Coming off TRT: restarting your own testosterone.

How the HPG axis restarts once replacement stops, how long recovery of testosterone and sperm production really takes, and how to protect fertility before it is too late.