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.
GLP-1 · Weight managementGLP-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.
Practice modelConcierge 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.
Lifestyle medicineThe 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.
HRT · Women's healthHRT 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.
NutritionPlant-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.
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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