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How Beliefs and Social Experience Shape Gene Expression brain health immune longevity Feb 09, 2026

Human health does not unfold in isolation. Across the lifespan, social experiences including connection, safety, rejection, meaning, and belonging shape how individuals respond to the world. While the...

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Understanding Inflammaging: How Inflammation Contributes to Aging cardiometabolic immune longevity Jan 22, 2026

Aging can be understood as a gradual imbalance between damage accumulation and the body’s ability to repair and maintain resilience. Early in life, repair systems are highly effective. Over time, howe...

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The Oral Health–Hypertension Connection: What Functional Medicine Practitioners Should Know cardiometabolic immune Sep 05, 2025

Hypertension, affecting over a billion people worldwide, is often viewed through a cardiovascular or renal lens. Yet mounting evidence suggests oral health, particularly periodontal disease, may influ...

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How to Stop Missing Chronic Kidney Disease: A Root-Cause Approach to Early Detection cardiometabolic chronic kidney disease immune Jun 06, 2025

When I first began practicing internal medicine, and later functional medicine, I was taught to focus heavily on cardiovascular and metabolic diseases. Kidney health, however, was often treated as an ...

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