Archive - Thinking About Your Own Health

March 2025

Pop Tops and the Personal Health Record

I blew out my flip-flop. Stepped on a pop top. Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home. “Margaritaville” - Jimmy Buffett, 1977

Mar 31 •

Alan Heldman MD

I Want To Exercise (quick-read short version)

Do I Need A Cardiac Calcium Score CAT Scan First?

Mar 18 •

Alan Heldman MD

I Want To Exercise

Do I Need A Cardiac Calcium Score CAT Scan First?

Mar 18 •

Alan Heldman MD

Self-Experimentation and the Four-Minute Mile

How medical students studying their own physiology did the impossible

Mar 2 •

Alan Heldman MD

February 2025

Please Don't Eat the Nano Soccer Balls

What level of evidence should we expect before we take a supplement? How I start to learn about health claims.

Feb 17 •

Alan Heldman MD

Running Under Your Age: Years for Seconds

Special data-heavy edition for masters track fans and dedicated sports/fitness quants!

Feb 10 •

Alan Heldman MD

Vitamin C is really really important. Does that mean that you should take extra? And if I'm not sure, then what? Things I learned from my breakfast with…

Feb 3 •

Alan Heldman MD

December 2024

Change is Difficult

How I think about supplements that make health claims.

Dec 27, 2024 •

Alan Heldman MD

November 2024

Sniffing Out Bullsh*t

It's about to get wild out there in the world of health. Having a good nose for unsubstantiated health claims is gonna get even more important.

Nov 18, 2024 •

Alan Heldman MD

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