“People treat it like it’s a normal part of being busy, but it quietly wrecks your mood, focus, health, driving, and decision-making.”

I'm a Southern California-based writer on the Lifestyle team who likes to try and rank viral foods and read and recommend awesome books.

"'Do not believe everything you see on the Internet' was good advice back then, and it's good advice now."

"There’s always something we can do about it, but they make us just comfortable enough that we don’t choose to do anything about it."

"Had a patient in his mid-30s that was expecting a kid within days. He was in the hospital because he had chronically high blood pressure that jacked up his heart. It's not something to be ignored."

"Antibiotic resistance sounds like one of those problems humanity keeps procrastinating until it becomes catastrophic."

"This is the one. Immediately thought of that. Medical science is closing in on this very fundamental fact that wasn't quite mainstream for a long time: All chronic disease is caused by inflammation and oxidation. And sugar does a LOT of the second, and some of the first as well."

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