Drinking From the Fire Hose: How Do You Keep Up When Health Advice Won't Sit Still?
Medical knowledge is said to double every 73 days. How do you keep up? You don’t have to. Here’s how to cut through health noise, fake turmeric and all.
Private Clinic, Big-Box, or Online? What Actually Changes Depending on Where You Buy
Where you buy your hearing aids matters as much as which device you choose. Here's the real tradeoff between private clinics, big-box stores, and online options.
You're Not Broken. You're Just Getting an Upgrade.
Hearing aids aren't just medical devices — they're freedom devices. Here's how they actually change day-to-day life, once the adjustment period passes.
Background Noise: Why Restaurants Are the Final Boss of Hearing Aids
Restaurants are the hardest listening environment for hearing aid users — and the most common source of frustration. Here's why, and what actually helps.
Seed Oils Alone Might Not Be the Villain. That's Not the Point.
The seed oil debate keeps getting fought as an up-or-down vote on one ingredient. That misses the actual problem: what happens when seed oil, sugar, and salt are engineered together.
From Ear Trumpets to Smartphones: Why Today's Hearing Aids Aren't Your Grandfather's
If your image of hearing aids is a bulky, obvious device, you're picturing something decades out of date. Here's how far the technology has actually come.
Everything the Government Told You About Eating That They Later Reversed
Breakfast, fasting, the food pyramid, cholesterol — official dietary advice has quietly reversed itself again and again. Here's the pattern, in one place.
Your Hearing Aids Are in a Drawer. Here's Why It's Worth Trying Again.
If your first attempt with hearing aids didn't stick, you're not alone — and you're not stuck with that outcome. Here's why round two goes differently.
Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About This?
Insulin resistance, saturated fat, food dyes — the exact topics this book was built on are suddenly everywhere. Here's an honest look at why, and why it probably has nothing to do with book sales.
That Hearing Aid Whistle, Explained (And 4 Things to Try First)
The high-pitched whistle hearing aids make isn't a sign they're broken — it's called feedback, and it's usually a quick fix. Here's what's actually happening and where to start.
"Food Is Medicine" Is Right. It's Also Becoming a Trap.
The food-as-medicine movement got a lot right about nutrition and chronic disease. But there's a line between eating with intention and turning every meal into a diagnosis — and it's worth knowing where that line is.
"It's Not About You, It's About Me Learning": How to Actually Support Someone Wearing Hearing Aids
Your partner or parent just started wearing hearing aids. Here's what actually helps during the adjustment — and what quietly makes it harder.
Ozempic Didn't Cause the Problem My Book Talks About. It's Proof of It.
GLP-1 drugs are reshaping how America eats faster than any diet trend in decades. That shift says less about willpower and more about the industry incentives at the heart of We're Not Sick, We're Being Sold.
You Were Just Diagnosed With Hearing Loss. Here's What Actually Happens Next.
A hearing loss diagnosis can feel bigger than it needs to. Here's where to start — and why the next few decisions matter more than people realize.
"Processed" Isn't the Problem. "Ultra-Processed" Is.
Not all processed food is bad — but the NOVA classification system reveals why "ultra-processed" is the real category to watch, and why the food industry hopes you never learn the difference.
You Don’t Need a Medical Degree to Question Medical Dogma
Do you need a medical degree to question nutrition and health claims? This article explores why evidence—not credentials—should determine truth, and why questioning medical dogma matters.
The Poisons In Your Food That Other Countries Ban
Walk into a grocery store in France, and you won't find half the ingredients common in American processed foods. Not because Europeans are more health-conscious—because their governments banned dozens of additives that the U.S. still allows. Artificial dyes linked to hyperactivity in children. Preservatives classified as possible carcinogens. Chemicals banned for causing organ damage in animal studies. Why does the rest of the developed world consider these ingredients too dangerous to allow, while America puts them in children's cereal? The answer reveals everything wrong with how we regulate food safety.
The Cholesterol Myth: Why The Government Quietly Removed Warnings About Dietary Cholesterol
For four decades, the U.S. Dietary Guidelines warned Americans to limit dietary cholesterol to 300mg per day. This meant restricting eggs, shrimp, and other cholesterol-containing foods. Then, in 2015, the guidelines quietly removed cholesterol restrictions. No press conference. No apology. Just... silence. What changed? Not the science—research questioning the dietary cholesterol-heart disease link existed for decades. What changed was that they could no longer ignore it. But they're still not explaining how millions of people avoided healthy foods unnecessarily for 40 years.
The Intermittent Fasting Panic: Why Experts Fear What Humans Did For Millennia
If you don't eat every few hours, your body will think it's starving and start storing fat." I watched a nutritionist tell my fiancée this with complete confidence. It's one of the most widely-believed myths in nutrition—and it's completely false. Humans evolved experiencing regular periods without food. Our ancestors didn't have constant access to meals. Yet somehow we're told that going 16 hours without eating will trigger metabolic disaster. The actual research tells a very different story.
The Low-Fat Lie: How "Heart-Healthy" Foods Made Us Sick
The new 2025 dietary guidelines flipped conventional wisdom by ending "the war on saturated fat." After 40+ years of telling Americans to choose low-fat products, the government quietly admitted they got it wrong. But here's what they're not saying: the low-fat processed foods that replaced real butter, whole milk, and fatty meat didn't just fail to make us healthier—they made us catastrophically worse. When you remove fat from food, you have to replace it with something. That something is usually sugar. And that's where the real story begins.