The answer to that question is complex and individual and before thinking about that you should have a basic understanding of cholesterol in your body. You can learn about this from my video and …
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Your Body and Cholesterol
This week I’m talking about Cholesterol. What it is, where does it come from (hint your diet is only a small part) and what does your body use it for It’s interesting that when …
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Preventative Health for Everyone This week I am talking Joshua Scalar, MD, MPH, Chief Medical Officer for BioIQ where they are working to seamlessly connect people to preventative health testing by removing the friction …
Continue readingAlcohol – What’s a Healthy Amount
Media Coverage of Alcohol This week I’m talking about Alcohol consumption and the recent study published in the Lancet: Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global …
Continue readingMaking it Easier to do the Right Thing
Behavioral Health for Positive Impact This week I am talking to Matt Wallaert (@mattwallaert), Chief Behavioral Officer at Clover Health. I have listened to Matt on a few occasions, most recently at the FitBit Captivate …
Continue readingIs Intermittent Fasting Right for You?
Does Intermittent Fasting Work? This week we I’m covering the world of Intermittent Fasting. What’s that you ask – in its simplest form Eat – Stop – Eat In other words, challenging your body with …
Continue readingHow Good is BMI as a Health Indicator?
How do You Measure your Healthiness? A recent conversation with my brother about Body Mass Index or BMI got me thinking about this data point and how we use it. Many of you are probably …
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Medical School Candidate Selection Are we are selecting the wrong candidates for medical school and not teaching them the skills they really need to be good doctors? I’m a doctor first – anytime anyone asks …
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This week we are focusing on mindfulness and meditation and why it is important for your health. People that include mindfulness and meditation in their daily routing find they are better able to deal with …
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Exercise Routine In this weeks video I discuss getting into the habit of exercise Getting into a regular routine for exercise is the first step to making this part of everyday activity. How do you do …
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The Fake Science Factory In hindsight, the Waset publishing organization (I’m not linking to it so as not to help their SEO – waset DOT org) should have refunded Chris (Suggy) Sumner’s money when he asked …
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Dr Nick the Incrementalist discusses the new screening guidelines for hypertension or High Blood Pressure. What’s changed and what should you do about it In November 2017 the American College of Cardiology (ACC) updated the …
Continue readingSecurity, Passwords and Data Breach Services – Troy Hunt
In the lead up to BlackHat and DefCon conferences, I am talking to one of the leaders in the space of security and the innovator who created and runs the outstanding security resource HaviBeenPwned (HIBP) Troy Hunt (@TroyHunt). …
Continue readingProstate Cancer Screening – What’s a Man to Do?
New Prostate Screening Recommendations There’s a lot of talk in the news and spanning many of the social media networks with titles like this Prostate cancer screening recommendations get rolled back by US task force …
Continue readingBioHealth Capital Region Forum 2018
Despite living in the DC Metro area for many years I have never managed to attend this event finding myself unavailable and traveling outside the area. This year I was able to attend the 4th Annual event finding …
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Today is Earth Day – an annual event designed to raise awareness of the environment and protection of our planet – this year the focus is on Ending Plastic Pollution Plastic Clean up from the …
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The last remnants of summer continue to permeate our lives but coming to a close and as they say in Game of Thrones “Winter is coming”. It might be hard to think about the flu …
Continue readingScience and Magic – Future Thinking
Total Solar Eclipse This week was special for this self-confessed geek and space nut – witnessing first hand a total solar eclipse. A trip that I had thankfully planned over a year ago. THe hotel we …
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Rethinking Wellness in the Wearable Age This past week I had the privilege of joining ~30 or so people from around the country in Los Angeles to hear about the work Aetna and Apple have been …
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The Desire to Help and Security We are programmed with a desire to help others in need but this trait is one of the reasons that hackers are so successful infiltrating our networks as I …
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Security is a Worldwide Problem The recent rash of ransomware and hacking attacks have highlighted once again the highly exposed nature of our information systems and the challenge of securing these systems. In May of 2017 Wannacry trojan …
Continue readingMedical Education Broken Economic Model
Medical Education Costs I posted an article this past week featuring an article from CBS Moneywatch in 2013: $1 million mistake: Becoming a doctor that generated a few comments including comments about clinician burn out domestically and internationally …
Continue reading7 Tips for the Best HIMSS16 Experience
This year will be my 19th year at HIMSS – things have grown significantly since 1997 when HIMSS was held in San Diego with a record number of attendees – 15,800 and 408 exhibitors …
Continue readingPatient engagement lessons from Africa
I was raised in Gabon on the equatorial west coast of Africa and though I’ve never practiced there, I consider myself African and continue to be interested in the delivery of healthcare on the continent. …
Continue readingHealth Insurance Reform – It’s Not a Bumper to Bumper Warranty
We have some Healthcare reform in the US but we are still challenged with a system that is failing to deliver results. This piece recently: America Ranks No. 1 for Over-Priced, Inefficient Health Care featured the …
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