THE UPWARD ARC75+ EDITIONS SINCE 2025

The current archive.

Under Load and The Next Move, in one archive. Selected from more than 75 editions published over the past 18 months.

Each edition is labeled by series, with the research and corrections maintained over time.

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THE NEXT MOVE

The number behind a 30% statin result

A 9,971-person statin trial cut cardiovascular events in healthy older adults. The absolute benefit depends on your starting risk.

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UNDER LOAD

Sixty Kilos Felt Heavy on a Morning When Nothing Was Wrong

What sleep loss, cortisol testing, work detachment and falling capacity reveal about recovery under sustained load.

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THE NEXT MOVE

When cannabis becomes your sleep aid

What a 32-study cannabis and stroke analysis found, why its dose question remains unanswered, and when nightly sleep use deserves attention.

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Eighteen Experts Read the Same Glucose Reports. They Could Not Agree.

What CGM evidence shows in adults without diabetes, where interpretation breaks down and when the device has a clinical use.

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Same blood. Two tests. Nine years apart.

Biological age scores from DNA clocks, gym machines and wearables measure different inputs. What the numbers can track, and why they are not clinical diagnoses.

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Butter, MCT, Coconut, Ghee, Olive. Then I Read the Seed Oil Studies.

What human research says about seed oils, linoleic acid, butter, ghee and everyday cooking choices.

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THE NEXT MOVE

0.8 kg: the once-a-week workout headline, checked

What a 315-person HIIT trial found about weekly exercise frequency, fat loss and fitness, and which parts of the tested protocol matter before trying it.

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The Peptide I Almost Injected

BPC-157, weak human evidence, peptide marketing, product quality, and the choice not to inject an unapproved compound.

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THE NEXT MOVE

356 studies on protein. Almost none in people.

What a new protein-restriction review says about longevity, where the human evidence stops, and how activity and age affect practical protein targets.

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I Couldn't Remember My Password. That Was the Best News of the Trip.

What psychological detachment, family workload, sleep, and workplace incentives reveal about whether a holiday restores you.

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About the coffee number I gave you in January

What a new UK Biobank liver study adds to the coffee evidence, why its effect sizes need caution, and four ways to use the result without drinking more.

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The Doctor's Edit on Your Longevity Drawer. I Read the Trials.

Rapamycin, NAD precursors, creatine, metformin, and the gap between a changed biomarker and a longer life.

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THE NEXT MOVE

560 fewer steps a day: the GLP-1 effect I didn't flag

New wearable data suggests physical activity may fall after people start GLP-1 treatment, and why movement and muscle still need attention during weight loss.

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UNDER LOAD

I Fall Asleep in Ninety Seconds. This One's for Everyone Who Can't.

Why tired people stay awake, what to do after a 3 a.m. awakening, and why the most reliable insomnia treatments rarely come in a bottle.

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ADHD Is Not a Superpower. I Have It, and So Does My Son.

A doctor who missed his own ADHD for 40 years, and the son who has it too. What the science really says about the "superpower," and what actually helps.

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I Ate Raw Sauerkraut by the Jar for 20 Years. Then I Read the Trials.

I ate raw sauerkraut for two decades, sure it was medicine. Then I read every trial. Fine to eat, but its reputation ran far ahead of the evidence.

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I Took Fish Oil for 10 Years. I Was Taking the Wrong Half.

I took fish oil for 10 years and was dosing the wrong half. A doctor on EPA vs DHA, the test that ends the guessing, and how to read the label.

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I Told a Parent Group My Daughter Was Missing. It Was a Joke.

Laughter is the best medicine is mostly a myth. What a real laugh actually does to your body, the four humor styles, and why the audience decides.

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The Night a Wearable Would Score as a Failure

Alcohol is not good for you, and obsessing over your tracker is worse. A doctor on the real drivers of a long life, and why the dinner matters more.

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He Named a Surgery He Couldn't See: A Doctor's Audit of 5,000 Years of Chinese Medicine

Is Chinese medicine ancient wisdom or elaborate theater? It is both. A doctor separates what survives the evidence from what can give you cancer.

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UNDER LOAD

The Hollow Win: What the Climb Costs You by Forty-Seven

You can win every game and feel nothing the next morning. The three inner drives behind midlife emptiness, and how to audit which one runs you.

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At 47, I Was Supposed to Be at the Bottom. My 12-Year-Old Might Get There First.

For decades happiness bottomed out at 47. New data shows the floor moved to the young. What changed, and how to protect a midlifer and a teen at once.

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The Twenty Percent: Where AI Stops and Your Doctor Starts

ChatGPT handles 80% of what your doctor does with your bloodwork. The 20% it misses can cost you a decade, and the nightly habit wrecking your sleep.

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The Recovery Tool I Stopped Using at 25 and Should Have Kept

Massage does not flush lactic acid or lower cortisol. What it actually does for muscle, fascia, and your nervous system, and why desk workers need it.

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Three Bikes, Four Habits. How I Pick the Four Things When the Week Tries to Break Me

A doctor's filter for health overload: three questions, four habits, no more. How to cut the noise and keep only what survives a chaotic week.

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The Names I Forget: A Confession, a Dogma, and Some New Wiring

Your adult brain grows 700 new neurons a day. A 100-year argument just ended, and the four habits that decide the brain you will have at 75.

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The Healthy Guy Who Almost Died

Looking healthy is not being healthy. Five heart tests, mostly left out of your checkup, that flag silent disease ten years before it strikes.

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I Tried Botox. It Didn't Work. That's Not the Point.

Caring how you look is not vanity, it is biology. A surgeon ranks what actually works for your face, skin, hair, and teeth, and what to skip.

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You Already Know What to Do. That Was Never the Problem.

You do not have an information problem, you have an execution debt. Why elite health protocols fail busy professionals, and the one-action fix.

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Why We Die: The Midlife Risk Factors You Can See and the Ones You Can't

What actually kills people in their 40s, ranked. Why the deadliest risks wear the mask of productivity, and the two that cost nothing to fix.

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Your Bones Peaked at 30. Nobody Checked.

Cardio does nothing for your bones. Why bone loss starts in your 30s, the scan you have never had, and the heavy lifting that reverses it.

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Sexual Health Is a Vital Sign. We Just Don't Treat It Like One.

The biomarker no executive physical checks. How sexual function flags heart disease years early, plus the meds that quietly suppress the signal.

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I'm a Doctor. I Know Exactly What Ultra-Processed Food Does. My Kids Still Want KitKats.

Childhood health habits track for 80 years. The four that matter, why structure beats explanation, and how to build them wherever you live.

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Surrounded and Starving: The Hidden Biology of Leadership Loneliness

Loneliness rewrites your genes and suppresses immunity. Why connected leaders are still isolated, and the single relationship that reverses it.

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Leadership Under Load: Why Your Best People (Including You) Can’t Sustain What They Start

Stop telling yourself to push through. The real science of motivation, discipline, and habits, and how to keep performing when your routine breaks.

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Bloodwork That Matters: A Calm, Non-Hyped Executive Guide

Stop paying for 100-marker panels. A doctor breaks down the handful of blood tests worth running, what to skip, and how to avoid false positives.

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Trust Your Gut: The Trillion-Microbe Engine You’re Ignoring

Skip the $300 gut test. Here is how your microbiome really works, why most probiotics backfire, and the 3 daily habits that build it.