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...

A DEEP DIVE INTO THE REAL REASON ATHEROSCLEROSIS HAPPENS WHERE IT DOES, WHY YOUR CHOLESTEROL NUMBER IS ONLY HALF THE STORY, AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT You've probably heard the argument. Maybe from a podcast, a YouTube video, or a friend who went carnivore and lost 40 pounds and now has opinions about lipids. It goes something like this: "LDL doesn't actually cause heart disease on its own. You need other factors like inflammation, insulin resistance, oxidized LDL. If your metabolic health is...

Henry Gray (1918) Anatomy of the Human Body You’re gonna want to read this one carefully.... OK, here’s something that might surprise you, and honestly, it surprised me when I first learned it too. The standard narrative out there most people have heard goes something like this: cholesterol is crucial for the life of all cells and the liver makes the cholesterol, packages it into LDL, and ships it out to your organs and tissues that need it. So essentially LDL = delivery truck. Simple, right?...