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Lifestyle Medicine

My Daily Routine for Staying Healthy, Focused, and Purpose-Driven

People often ask me what I actually do every day to stay healthy at this stage of my life and career. After more than four…

Gerald J Joseph • July 21, 2026 • 10 min read

When I began my career in health education, public health and lifestyle medicine over 40 years ago, the…

August 24, 2026 • 21 min read

Lifestyle Medicine

When Maria first came to my office three years ago, she was exhausted. Not just tired, exhausted in…

August 13, 2026 • 14 min read

Lifestyle Medicine

When I look back on more than forty years of work in health coaching, lifestyle medicine, and preventive…

July 23, 2026 • 8 min read

Metabolic Health

Human sleep didn’t evolve around an 8-hour schedule. Our early ancestors likely slept differently than we do today.…

June 23, 2026 • 2 min read

Metabolic Health

For decades, we have framed obesity and weight loss as a calorie problem. Eat less. Move more. Yet…

June 16, 2026 • 2 min read

Longevity

The future of healthcare is not AI versus physicians. It is AI, physicians, and health coaches working together.…

June 9, 2026 • 2 min read

Metabolic Health

But It Doesn’t Affect Men and Women the Same Way. Most people think of sleep as recovery. In…

June 2, 2026 • 2 min read

Longevity

Long before modern agriculture, processed food, calorie-counting apps, and GLP-1 drugs, humans lived as hunter-gatherer-foragers deeply connected to…

May 26, 2026 • 2 min read

Metabolic Health

For most of human history, survival was physical. Humans walked for miles daily. Climbed. Carried. Dug. Hunted. Lifted.…

May 19, 2026 • 2 min read