Why Your Pace of Aging Predicts Cancer Better Than Your Birthday Rising rate of early-onset cancer is connected to accelerated biological aging TL;DR: Why This Matters The 60-second version: A 2026 Nature Medicine study found that younger generations are biologically aging faster than their birth year predicts — and that gap tracks with real increases in early-onset cancer risk. The tool that captures this, DunedinPACE, doesn't just estimate how old your body looks; it measures how fast...

The Morning Window: A System to Understand, Not a Threat to Fear Every morning, in roughly the first two hours after you wake, your cardiovascular system performs several demanding tasks at once. Blood pressure climbs in anticipation of the day. Fibrinolysis — the system that dissolves small clots — drops to its lowest output of the 24-hour cycle. And your blood sits at its thickest, concentrated by a night of fluid loss you had no chance to replace. None of this is pathology. It is ordinary...

Normal Labs but still feel like your running at 60% By Barbara Johnson, MD — Founder & Medical Director, The Johnson Center. Functional Health & Longevity If your bloodwork came back “normal” but you still feel exhausted, foggy, and a decade older than your age, you are not imagining it. Here is the distinction almost no one explains: a normal lab range tells you that you do not have a diagnosable disease. An optimal range tells you where a number sits in the people who stay sharp, lean, and...