Nobody arrives here not wanting to be well — the wanting is never the missing piece. I’m Dr. Vivek Gupta, board certified in Internal Medicine and Obesity Medicine. I write about longevity, metabolism, sleep, stress, movement and food, about the medications when they help and about what no medication can do. The science held honestly, and the parts a twelve-minute visit never has room for. Without the hype, the shame, or the expectation of a perfect week.
Last Friday I went on a retreat. I almost did not go. There was a list of reasons not to, the kind that always sound urgent in the moment and forgettable a week later. I went anyway, and I came home with one idea that
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A patient started leaving her phone at home on walks, and said her mind felt unburdened. Research suggests a phone in your pocket costs you focus even when it is
I am putting a decision in writing so I actually follow through. After years of hospital night shifts, I am titrating down and eventually stopping, and here is the thinking
Mothers tend to put themselves last, and then last again, until last begins to feel normal. Why self-care is not a luxury in that picture but the thing that makes
The evidence for cold plunging is more modest than the claims. But a practice does not have to do what its loudest advocates say in order to be useful, and
Cardiovascular disease, neurodegeneration and cancer may share one underlying mechanism: a dysregulated immune system and chronic inflammation. What that convergence means for how we practice.
Insight is one thing. Regulating a nervous system already in motion is another. Why slow, deliberate breathing works at the level of the body, before the mind gets involved.
Fear-based safety and wellness can look identical from the outside. Eating less, staying home, avoiding the hard conversation. The difference is that one contracts your life and the other expands
We start with self-compassion because the amygdala treats a new diet plan like a lion in the grass. But lasting change eventually needs structure too, and commitment is a structure
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An honest note on anxiety, avoidance, and why the people offering wellness guidance have not “arrived” either. Suffering is universal, growth is not linear, and wisdom gets uncovered in community
A study drawing on nearly 450,000 adults in the UK Biobank plus U.S. NHANES data found that physical activity lowers chronic inflammation, slows immune aging, and reduces cancer incidence and
Our Director of Health Coaching brings twenty years of experience and fifteen certifications. What matters more is that she listens. Why the medication creates an opening and the coaching is
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