Is it cheating?
At a graduation party, someone whispered that a friend was "on the shot." Then she turned to me: isn't it cheating? A doctor's honest answer, at the table.
Issue #10 · Jul 11, 2026 · 4 min
Habits that hold up
Behavior holds up when the environment does the work. Habits that survive a bad week are not the ones you white-knuckle - they are the ones the room, the calendar, and the people around you make easy. Notes on how that scaffolding actually gets built.
Willpower is a story we sell.
A patient apologized for her weight before I'd said hello. She'd rehearsed it. Medicine taught her that her body was a confession worth opening with.
Issue #9 · Jul 4, 2026 · 4 min
The drug you build instead of buy
My friend spends $340 a month on supplements and doesn't lift. My neighbor Ray is 66, takes nothing, and could carry him up the stairs. Which one is medicine?
Issue #7 · Jun 20, 2026 · 4 min