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10/20/2026

🧬 Fatty liver and the abnormal blood vessels it builds is one of the most reversible conditions in all of medicine.

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You do not need a drug. You have something better. The ability to remove the trigger and let the liver heal itself.

🔬 The single most powerful lever is weight loss. And the amount matters in specific steps:

📉 3 to 5% body weight lost measurably reduces fat in the liver
🔥 7 to 10% resolves the inflammation of steatohepatitis in most people
🌿 10% or more is where scarring and fibrosis actually starts to regress

A 2026 network meta-analysis found this relationship is essentially linear. For every 1% of body weight lost the odds of resolving steatohepatitis and improving fibrosis go up in lockstep.

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🔬 Cancer stem cells are the cells that give rise to new cancer cells, and they are responsible for cancer coming back. (...
10/19/2026

🔬 Cancer stem cells are the cells that give rise to new cancer cells, and they are responsible for cancer coming back. (More in our newsletter. Comment NEWSLETTER for your first copy.)

Researchers have found that bioactive compounds in certain foods can kill cancer stem cells, in cancers such as colon, breast, and prostate.

Your body also has healthy stem cells, which repair and replace worn out cells and tissues. Foods that kill cancer stem cells often help activate these healthy stem cells at the same time.

This does not replace cancer treatment.

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🍅 Higher lycopene intake was linked to a 54% lower prostate cancer risk in a study of nearly 3,000 men. (Full breakdown ...
10/18/2026

🍅 Higher lycopene intake was linked to a 54% lower prostate cancer risk in a study of nearly 3,000 men. (Full breakdown in our newsletter, comment NEWSLETTER for your first copy.)

In an analysis of nearly 3,000 men in the PREDIMED trial, lycopene intake above about 4.9 mg per day, roughly 175 grams of tomato, was associated with a 54% lower prostate cancer risk, comparing the highest to the lowest quartiles.

The finding is promising, but it is not the whole story. A Cochrane review found insufficient evidence to support or refute lycopene for prostate cancer prevention, highlighting the need for more clinical research.

Cooking makes lycopene dramatically more bioavailable: lycopene from tomato paste has been reported to be roughly 2.5 times more bioavailable than from fresh tomatoes.

🛡️ A study across 204 countries tied 44% of cancer deaths in 2019 to 34 risk factors, led by smoking, alcohol, and high ...
10/17/2026

🛡️ A study across 204 countries tied 44% of cancer deaths in 2019 to 34 risk factors, led by smoking, alcohol, and high body mass. (More science like this in our newsletter. Comment NEWSLETTER to get your first downloadable.)

Body fat and blood sugar matter too. Chronically high insulin raises IGF-1, a protein that can spark cancer cell growth and, at high levels, prompts cancer cells to make VEGF, the signal that drives the new blood vessels tumors need to grow.

Excess body fat, lack of sleep, inactivity, UV radiation, ultraprocessed food, and grilled meats all create free radicals that can damage DNA, and unrepaired damage can lead to cancer-causing mutations.

This checklist covers more than one habit. Save it and see how many you already do.

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10/16/2026

🧬 You have two ages. The number on your birthday cake. And the age of your arteries. The first one you cannot change. The second one you can.

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🔬 Inside an aging artery:

📉 Nitric oxide production falls
🩺 Elastin is replaced by stiff collagen
🧟 Zombie cells accumulate and spread toxic signals to neighboring healthy cells
🩸 The ability to build new blood vessels declines

The consequences show up as high blood pressure, heart disease, stroke, dementia, kidney failure, and catastrophic vascular events.

🌿 But every single one of those steps is influenced by the choices you make every day.

💪 Exercise rebuilds nitric oxide production and lowers arterial stiffness
🫒 The Mediterranean diet improves endothelial function and reduces cardiovascular events
🥬 Nitrate rich vegetables directly restore the vascular signaling that aging depletes

Your arteries do not have to age as fast as your birthday says they should.

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🍠 A purple sweet potato drink lowered liver enzymes in an 8-week trial. (Full breakdown in our newsletter, comment NEWSL...
10/15/2026

🍠 A purple sweet potato drink lowered liver enzymes in an 8-week trial. (Full breakdown in our newsletter, comment NEWSLETTER for your first copy.)

In a randomized trial, adults with borderline-elevated liver enzymes drank an anthocyanin-rich purple sweet potato beverage for 8 weeks. Their levels of GGT, AST, and ALT, three enzymes checked in liver blood tests, went down.

Anthocyanins are the plant pigments that give purple sweet potatoes their color. Purple sweet potatoes are especially rich in a stable form that holds up better to heat, light, and storage.

Researchers are now studying these same pigments for their effects on blood vessel health.

10/14/2026

🏃 Exercise is the heavyweight champion of vascular health. And the research is unambiguous.

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🔬 Aerobic exercise is the single best documented way to slow vascular aging. It:

💪 Lowers arterial stiffness
🩸 Boosts nitric oxide production
🔥 Cuts inflammation
🌱 Improves the endothelium's ability to build new vessels

Formerly sedentary middle aged and older adults who start regular exercise measurably reduce the stiffness of their arteries.

🫒 And food amplifies the effect. An 18 month randomized study found that a Mediterranean diet enriched with plant polyphenols, green tea, and a mankai plant shake with no red or processed meat reversed proximal aortic stiffness with nearly double the benefit of the standard Mediterranean diet and triple that of general healthy eating guidance.

🌿 The spring came back to the arteries.

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10/13/2026

🧬 Some of the most powerful foods for your blood vessels are ones you probably already have in your kitchen.

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🔬 Here is what the research shows:

🫒 Extra virgin olive oil, cocoa flavanols, and berry anthocyanins all improve endothelial function and lower blood pressure

🐟 Long chain omega 3s from salmon, mackerel, and sardines build directly into endothelial cell membranes, boost nitric oxide release, and calm vascular inflammation

🌱 Flaxseed ranked among the single most effective interventions for improving flow mediated dilation in a head to head network meta-analysis

🧄 Garlic raised nitric oxide production and produced the biggest flow mediated dilation improvement of any food in older adults, specifically the group whose nitric oxide machinery has declined the most

🌿 These are not supplements. These are whole foods doing extraordinary things inside your blood vessels.

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🔬 Liver cancer depends on new blood vessels to grow.Every tumor needs a blood supply to bring it oxygen and nutrients, a...
10/12/2026

🔬 Liver cancer depends on new blood vessels to grow.

Every tumor needs a blood supply to bring it oxygen and nutrients, and liver cancer is no exception. Without those new vessels, a tumor cannot keep growing. (Full breakdown in our newsletter, comment NEWSLETTER for your first copy.)

Cutting off that blood supply is called antiangiogenesis, an approach oncologists already use, and certain foods carry bioactives shown to inhibit angiogenesis.

🌰 Walnuts
🥦 Cauliflower
🍅 Tomatoes
🍵 Green Tea
🫒 Olive Oil
🥦 Broccoli
🐟 Salmon
🐟 Sardines
🥬 Kale

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🌰 Did you know walnuts may affect how cancer builds blood vessels? (Get the research in our newsletter, comment NEWSLETT...
10/11/2026

🌰 Did you know walnuts may affect how cancer builds blood vessels? (Get the research in our newsletter, comment NEWSLETTER for your first copy.)

Tumors can't grow without a blood supply, so they send out a signal called VEGF that pulls new blood vessels toward them. Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center wanted to know whether a common food could turn that signal down.

They gave mice human colon cancer cells, then fed some of them whole walnuts and others corn oil. The walnut-fed mice had less VEGF in their blood. Their tumors had fewer blood vessels feeding them and grew more slowly.

Walnuts contain omega-3 fats and plant compounds called polyphenols. Scientists suspect these work together to slow tumor growth, rather than any single ingredient doing it alone.

These findings come from animal and lab studies, so whether the same happens in people is still unknown.

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