by Brock | Aug 26, 2026 | Disease Prevention, Heart Health
Cardio has an image problem. For a lot of people it is the thing you do on a treadmill to burn off a bad weekend, and when the scale does not move, the treadmill goes back to holding laundry. That framing sells it short. The most consistent, best documented effects of...
by Brock | Aug 9, 2026 | Heart Health, Nutrition
Olive oil has a better reputation than almost anything else in the grocery store. It gets credit for a healthier heart, a sharper memory, and a longer life, and it shows up on just about every “healthiest foods” list ever written. Most of that reputation...
by Brock | Aug 4, 2026 | Disease Prevention, Heart Health
Ask most people what smoking does to the body and they’ll say lungs. That’s accurate but incomplete, and the incomplete part matters. Smoking is one of the leading causes of cardiovascular disease, and the damage it does to the heart and blood vessels...
by Brock | Jul 30, 2026 | Diets, Heart Health, Nutrition
Most eating patterns that get attention have a marketing story behind them. The Mediterranean diet has research behind it instead, and a lot of it. It also isn’t really a diet in the restrictive sense. It’s a description of how people in countries...
by Brock | Jul 28, 2026 | Disease Prevention, Heart Health, Stress Management
Everyone knows what stress feels like: the tight chest, the racing pulse, the night spent staring at the ceiling. What’s less obvious is that those sensations aren’t just uncomfortable. They’re the visible edge of a physical response that, repeated...
by Brock | Jul 22, 2026 | Disease Prevention, Heart Health
Most people leave a doctor’s visit with a slip of paper full of numbers and only a vague sense of whether those numbers are good or bad. Blood pressure, cholesterol, and heart rate are the three metrics that come up most often, and they each tell a different...
