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Hard science meets no-BS advice in this deep dive on health optimization for high performers. Dr. Andre Heeg cuts through industry hype with evidence-backed strategies using his straightforward Upward ARC framework: Activate, Recover, Capacity.
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Mobility after 40: Stretching, strength and everyday movement (opens the original)
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In a dusty square in Kathmandu, men waited for minibuses in a deep squat. I took those minibuses to the hospital, where I worked in traumatology, and began wondering why I rarely used that position myself. Years later, during an hour's wait outside an embassy with my family, I was the only person in the queue squatting. This episode of Under Load looks at mobility as we age, with a practical question for anyone whose working week involves a lot of sitting: which everyday movement do you want to
Hearing loss, listening effort, and dementia: a doctor's reading (opens the original)
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Karla said people were too loud. Everyday voices suddenly felt overwhelming after doctors put small tubes in her eardrums. Our youngest had spent years struggling to hear us and tell us what she needed. She’s six now, and I’ve finally felt ready to write about it. This episode follows her progress, our doubts about a bilingual kindergarten, and the conversations I want people to be able to follow at work and at home. My wrestling ears make an appearance too, along with an expensive pair of custo
Intermittent Fasting: What a Doctor Tells People Who Ask (opens the original)
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I knocked a boiled egg against the table, and the crack cut through the silence. We were at a hotel for a week of leadership training. The morning session started at eight o'clock, and so did my eating window, so I came in from the breakfast buffet with eggs and started breakfast in front of everyone. I understand why the rule appeals. Pick your hours, and you have fewer decisions to make. The problem is expecting that one rule to deliver everything you have heard about fasting. Two people asked
Cortisol Tests, Recovery, and Burnout: A Doctor Reads the Evidence (opens the original)
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I slid twenty kilos onto each side of the bar and stepped under it. Sixty kilos with the bar. Ten reps at that weight is a warm-up for me, the set I do without thinking about it. I got to five and had to rack it. Nothing had gone wrong. I had slept badly, so I told myself that was the reason. Then it happened again the next week, and the week after. I am a physician, so my first move was to go looking for a number that would explain it. That search is what this episode is about, and it ended som
Glucose Monitors Without Diabetes: A Doctor Reads the Evidence (opens the original)
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I walked up to the booth at CES ready to buy a glucose monitor. Bright lights, shiny counters, staff handing out little treats and packets of electrolyte powder. Six figures of trade-show budget, probably more, and it showed. I had just come from the panel. Two people I respect had talked about wearing one of these, and after three years of doubt I was ready to try it and later speak from experience. So I asked the person selling it one question. What does this do for a healthy person with no bl
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