Evidence-minded strength, weight loss, and longevity for men over 50.
I lost 170 pounds, rebuilt in a garage gym, and write about what actually works: lifting, GLP-1s, cardio, sleep, and reading your own bloodwork. No hype, no guru worship.
Latest from the blog
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Daily Low-Dose Tadalafil: What’s Proven, What’s Plausible, and What Isn’t
My TRT clinic prescribed 5 mg of tadalafil a day. Here is what it is actually proven to…
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I Take Testosterone. One Low Number Shouldn’t Put You on It.
A single low testosterone reading isn’t a diagnosis. I’m on TRT, and here’s how low testosterone is actually…
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Why I Take a Diabetes Drug and Have Never Had Diabetes
I take a diabetes drug and have never had diabetes. A plain-English map of the type 2 diabetes…
GLP-1s & Metabolic Health
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Why I Take a Diabetes Drug and Have Never Had Diabetes
I take a diabetes drug and have never had diabetes. A plain-English map of the type 2 diabetes…
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Tirzepatide Wins Weight Loss. Semaglutide Has the Hard-Outcome Data.
A BMJ analysis of 262 trials crowned tirzepatide the weight-loss king. But the drug with the hard survival…
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A Yale Team Tried 49 Online GLP-1 Sellers. Forty-Five Prescribed.
A Yale secret-shopper study tried 49 direct-to-consumer GLP-1 sites. 45 wrote a prescription, some in five minutes. What…
Heart & Bloodwork
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The First PCSK9 Cholesterol Pill Was Just Approved. Here’s Who Might Need It
The FDA approved Lipfendra (enlicitide), the first oral PCSK9 inhibitor. What it costs, how the pill compares to…
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VO2 Max Predicts Longevity. Just Not the Way Podcasts Say It Does
The “five times the risk” number is real. The useful lesson for a fifty-year-old is smaller, less sexy,…
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The Cholesterol Expert Who Can’t Take Statins
The most influential cholesterol educator alive can’t tolerate statins or ezetimibe. When he needed the expensive PCSK9 drug,…
Strength & the Rebuild
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Cold Plunges Got the Hype. Saunas Got the Evidence.
Cold plunges get the attention, but the sauna is the one with decades of hard-outcome data. What the…
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VO2 Max Predicts Longevity. Just Not the Way Podcasts Say It Does
The “five times the risk” number is real. The useful lesson for a fifty-year-old is smaller, less sexy,…
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The Strength-Training Number Your Doctor Skips: 90 Minutes a Week
A 147,000-person, 30-year Harvard study gives a rough number for the strength-training half of the exercise guideline: around…
Preventive Health
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Daily Low-Dose Tadalafil: What’s Proven, What’s Plausible, and What Isn’t
My TRT clinic prescribed 5 mg of tadalafil a day. Here is what it is actually proven to…
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Why I Take a Diabetes Drug and Have Never Had Diabetes
I take a diabetes drug and have never had diabetes. A plain-English map of the type 2 diabetes…
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Romaine Keeps Making People Sick. I Quit It, and I’m Not Missing Much.
A cyclospora outbreak just sickened 1,645 people across 34 states, and romaine keeps causing E. coli recalls. Is…
Hormones & TRT
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I Take Testosterone. One Low Number Shouldn’t Put You on It.
A single low testosterone reading isn’t a diagnosis. I’m on TRT, and here’s how low testosterone is actually…
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Legal Doping: How TRT and GLP-1s Let Normal Men Get Fit and Strong After 50
I take two drugs that would get an Olympian banned: testosterone and a GLP-1. I will never compete,…
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What TRT Actually Did for Me at 53
I was diagnosed with anxiety in 2021, hit 373 lbs in 2024, and started TRT in 2025. The…
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