Insights

Six essays from the PCM Editorial Team.

Working perspectives on the medicine the practice actually practices — plant-based clinical care, concierge structure, GLP-1 program design, HRT, and the long arc of lifestyle medicine.

Mind-gut · Gastroenterology

The mind-gut connection — what your stomach knows.

Why the bidirectional communication between the GI tract and the central nervous system is not a wellness slogan, but a clinical lever — and how we use it in everyday gastroenterology.

10 min read · PCM Editorial Team
GLP-1 · Weight management

GLP-1 myths — what patients actually need to know.

The medications are real, the mechanisms are powerful, and the discourse is full of misinformation. A working physician's read on what is true, what is overstated, and what is dangerous.

9 min read · PCM Editorial Team
Practice model

Concierge medicine vs. traditional primary care.

The structural differences that explain why concierge visits last longer, follow-up actually happens, and chronic disease prevention can be a daily practice instead of a quarterly aspiration.

8 min read · PCM Editorial Team
Lifestyle medicine

The lifestyle medicine framework.

Diet, sleep, stress, and movement are not soft-touch advice. They are the highest-leverage clinical interventions in chronic disease — and they belong in the room, with the physician, not in a referral envelope.

9 min read · PCM Editorial Team
HRT · Women's health

HRT after 50 — separating evidence from fear.

The 2002 WHI study reshaped a generation of HRT decisions, often in directions the evidence no longer supports. A measured look at how the field has updated, and what it means for women considering replacement now.

11 min read · PCM Editorial Team
Nutrition

Plant-forward eating, without the dogma.

The clinical evidence for plant-predominant dietary patterns is among the strongest in modern nutritional medicine. The cultural conversation around it is dogmatic in both directions. Here is what we tell our patients.

8 min read · PCM Editorial Team
House voice

Written in the practice's voice.

Insights are authored by the PCM Editorial Team — a working group of the practice's physicians and a clinical editor. We frame the evidence, paraphrase the studies, and never name patients. Where the evidence is uncertain, we say so.

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