THE BLOG

I published a piece two weeks ago arguing that root cause medicine, as practiced in a significant portion of the wellness space, is injuring people. I used the phrase "vigorously self-certified," name...

You did the research. You brought it in. And somewhere between the waiting room and the parking lot, you were made to feel foolish for trying. That is what I want to talk about today.

We dismissed yo...

Root cause medicine started as a reasonable clinical position, which is why it's such a shame about what happened next.

The original idea was simple: why is this patient sick? Not what do we call it,...

(Or: Why Everything You've Been Told About Sleep Was Tested on Someone Else)

There is a 2024 review out of Stanford, Harvard, and the University of Southampton that should have made headlines. It did...

In first year medical school, I drew the Krebs cycle by hand. Every step. Every molecule. Every carbon atom shuffling its way through the mitochondrial matrix like it had somewhere important to be. I ...

Most people who find The Fatigue Clinic have already been somewhere. Several somewheres. They've had the appointments, the labs, the referrals. They know exactly what a medical visit feels like.

Fift...

Let me paint you a picture.

Third year of medical school. I am exhausted in a way that feels genuinely unreasonable. I am foggy, I am struggling, and I am surrounded by other exhausted, foggy, strugg...

Fatigue is one of the most common symptoms in medicine, and somehow still one of the most confusing.

Everyone wants it to be simple: One lab. One diagnosis. One fix.

Trust me, I would also love that...

You’re sleeping more.

You’re eating better.

You’re trying to exercise.

…and you’re still exhausted.

At some point, it stops feeling confusing and starts to feel frustrating. Overwhelming. Disheart...

I recommend meditation to people constantly.

Which is slightly ironic, because if you looked inside my head during meditation it would mostly resemble a squirrel convention.

I started meditating in ...

Thanksgiving is supposed to be the Super Bowl of gratitude, a whole holiday built around saying “thank you,” eating carbohydrates, and pretending we all agree on politics (hah!).

But if you’re depres...

You can know the neurochemistry of depression by heart and still fall straight into it.

I wish I could tell you that being a doctor gives me immunity. It doesn’t. You can understand every neurotransm...