Dr Simpson reviews. Reviews of medicine, health care, and food.
From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution In 1991, I left Seattle and moved to Phoenix to begin my career as a surgeon. In Seattle, hiking meant pine trees, damp trails, and reliable rain. In Phoenix, hiking meant bottled water and survival. The temperature could sit at 113 degrees at six in the evening. Sometimes the…
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Mexican food isn’t unhealthy — American processing is. Real tacos deliver fiber, gut health, and Mediterranean biology in a corn tortilla.
Read MoreWhen Influencers Replace Scientists, Everyone Loses Every few years, nutrition gets a makeover.First comes a new graphic.Then comes a new slogan.Soon after, we hear claims that this time, someone finally figured it all out. Recently, that makeover arrived in the form of a “reverse food pyramid” and the cheerful phrase “Eat Real Food.” On the…
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Ultra-Processed Food: Making Sense of the Madness Ultra-processed food has become the villain of modern nutrition.Scroll through social media, and you’ll hear that it’s poisoning us, wrecking our gut, and driving the obesity epidemic all by itself. At the same time, other voices dismiss the entire idea as fear-mongering.According to them, processing doesn’t matter at…
Read More🧬 Telomeres and Time: Can We Really Rewind Aging? The Lowest Hemoglobin I’ve Ever Seen The lowest hemoglobin I’ve ever seen belonged to a young woman who was still standing. Her blood count was one-fourth of normal. She was pale, short of breath, and strong enough to walk into the clinic.Doctors soon learned her bone…
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How Edinburgh’s breakthroughs in anesthesia and antisepsis rescued surgery from quacks — and why today’s wellness fads echo the same old scams.
Read MoreHow a simple blender and a Nespresso machine transformed my mornings—making smoothies easy, coffee fast, and healthy habits actually stick.
Read MoreDiscover how Dr. John Harvey Kellogg went from top surgeon to cereal creator—and why his obsession with enemas and anti-pleasure foods still echoes today.
Read MoreIs Fruit Bad For You? Please. If a banana scares you more than bacon butter bombs, maybe your real problem isn’t fructose—it’s who you’re listening to
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