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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