Integrative Ayurvedic Medicine: A Philosophy of Practice
The longer I practice medicine, the less interested I become in fighting disease and the more interested I become in understanding why the body lost…
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The Cost of Forgetting Each Other
What elections, healthcare, and the ancient wisdom of Aparigraha reveal about the health of a society Last week’s midterm elections gave us plenty to contemplate….
Why Do We Scare Ourselves?
On Halloween, the biology of fear, and our capacity to meet the unknown My fifteen-year-old daughter recently showed me a clip from a horror movie…
The Biology of Behavior: Can Our Conduct Drive Us Toward Vitality—or Illness?
We have become remarkably good at identifying the behaviors that influence our health. We know that what we eat affects our metabolism, that movement supports…
The Cost of Care: Why Do We Keep Choosing What Isn’t Working?
An open enrollment conversation about healthcare, the security of the familiar, and the courage to question our choices. It’s that time of year again. Open…
The Art of Rest. And the Science of Finding It Within Ourselves
Sleep. One of the most natural, necessary, and increasingly elusive experiences of modern life. We spend roughly a third of our lives doing it, yet…
Fifty-Seven Phones: The Health of Us
Oh my God how my heart hurts. Fifty-seven phones went off that belonged to fifty-seven young men in a Cornell fraternity Snapchat group at 1:42…
I Want Food Back…
I love food. I love growing it. I love cooking it. I love the smell of garlic hitting a hot pan and tomatoes still warm…
Who Gets to Be You?
On AI, identity, consciousness, and the responsibility of becoming I have been spending more time than I should admit listening to the conversations surrounding artificial…
The Capacity to Be Okay — Right Now
There is a particular kind of exhaustion that doesn’t come from doing too much. It comes from needing something to happen before we can feel…
The Wisdom of the Immune System
As the seasons begin to change, conversations about the immune system seem to appear everywhere. Patients ask me what they should be taking to “boost”…