When it comes to maintaining health, it can be helpful to understand an optimal baseline for some matters. Learning a healthy weight range for your height, age, and gender, for instance, can be useful ...

Your doctor says everything looks fine, but you still feel terrible. The problem might not be your health but how labs define “normal.” Understanding the difference between normal and optimal could ...

The way we shop, do our banking, watch TV and listen to music is unrecognisable from 30 years ago – yet as a doctor, the way I do tests, treat patients and predict their outcomes is stuck in the 1990s ...

A patient recently showed me his annual health check-up, blood sugar normal, HbA1c 5.8%, cholesterol "borderline." His doctor ...