If you spend any time in the online cardiovascular health world, you have probably noticed something. The same debates keep showing up over and over again. Different faces, different Instagram posts and Youtube shorts, but the same playbook. Once you can see the moves, you start to see through the playbook and know the difference between information that can help you and information that can harm you. Contrarian Papers It seems like every few months a new post drops with a title like "Is...

You'll see a lot of health influencers online claiming inflammation is "the real cause" of cardiovascular disease, and that apoB and LDL aren't really a concern if there's no inflammation present. The ZEUS trial results just came out, and they're a good example of why we should push back on that narrative. The ZEUS Trial Over 6,300 people with atherosclerotic disease, chronic kidney disease, and elevated inflammation were randomized to an IL-6 inhibitor or placebo. IL-6 is a signaling protein...

If you've heard of medical ozone therapy at all, there's a decent chance you heard about it lumped in with some true examples of medical quackery out there. That reputation would seem to make sense on the surface. Ozone is the same gas that degrades rubber and irritates your lungs on a smoggy day. Introducing it into the body on purpose sounds like the opposite of medicine. In actuality, published research and clinical evidence paint a very different picture. Much of my own approach to...