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Posts by Robert Lufkin MD

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In October 2023, the American Heart Association officially admitted something that changes everything: heart disease, kidney disease, and type 2 diabetes are not three separate conditions.

They're one syndrome, driven by the same root cause.

They called it CKM syn...
https://youtu.be/QZYnwQ4QJBc

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As a medical school professor, I have been saying this for years. Now S... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
finance.yahoo.com/sectors/healthcare/artic...

#HeartDisease #Inflammation #Colchicine #MetabolicHealth #HealthLongevitySecrets

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99-year-old Betty Brussel recently broke three world swimming records in her age group.
The longevity revolution is happening right now.
What do you plan to be doing when you celebrate your 100th birthday?

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As a medical school professor, this may be the most exciting Alzheimer's finding I have seen in years.

Rese... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/2603230...

#Alzheimers #BrainHealth #Neurodegeneration #MetabolicHealth #HealthLongevitySecrets

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As a medical school professor, I teach that "a calorie is a calorie."

A new report in Nature Metabolism proves that's wrong.

Resea... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1124437

#Fructose #MetabolicSyndrome #Nutrition #Longevity #HealthLongevitySecrets

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As a medical school professor, I want you to count your ultra-processed food servings today.

A major new s... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/2603190...

#UltraProcessedFood #HeartDisease #MetabolicHealth #Nutrition #HealthLongevitySecrets

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I never realized how much stress driving added to my life until I started letting Tesla FSD handle most of it.
Now it does over 90% of my driving, and I've never felt more relaxed behind the wheel.

My cortisol levels probably appreciate it too.
Anyone else noticing the same thing?

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As a medical school professor, this clinical trial changes how I think about Parkinso... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
prebioticassociation.org/whats-the-latest-in-preb...

#Parkinsons #GutHealth #MetabolicHealth #Microbiome #HealthLongevitySecrets

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As a medical school professor, this changes how I think about neurodegeneration.

Scientists discovered that ... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/2601270...

#BrainHealth #Neurodegeneration #MetabolicHealth #Longevity #HealthLongevitySecrets

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In Cluj-Napoca, Romania, riders could pay for a bus ticket by doing 20 squats.
A device counted the squats and then issued a ticket valid for one trip on the CTP Cluj-Napoca urban transit network.
Seniors and people with disabilities could still ride free.
What do you think of this idea?

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As a medical school professor, I teach that exercise prevents cancer. But we never fully understood WHY... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/2601072...

#ExerciseIsMedicine #CancerPrevention #MetabolicHealth #Longevity #HealthLongevitySecrets

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As a medical school professor, this is a paradigm shift I've been waiting for.

The American College o... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.yahoo.com/news/articles/biomarker-...

#HeartDisease #Inflammation #CRP #MetabolicHealth #Prevention

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As a medical school professor at USC, this one is personal.

My colleagues at Keck School of Medici... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
medicalxpress.com/news/2026-01/scientists-...

#Alzheimers #BrainHealth #Neuroinflammation #MetabolicHealth #USC

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Your labs are "normal."
But you haven't felt normal in years.

There are 5 numbers your doctor probably isn't checking — and they tell a very different story.

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As a medical school professor, this study published in Science changed how I think about aging.

UCLA researchers discovered that agi... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/02/2602220...

#Aging #MuscleHealth #StemCells #Longevity #MetabolicHealth

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CREATINE: Not Just For Bodybuilders

Creatine is the most studied supplement in the world — but most people only associate it with bodybuilding.

New research reveals creatine supports ATP energy production, brain function, metabolic health, and longevity far beyond ...
https://youtu.be/6dNtAc7DVaE

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As a medical school professor, I've told patients for years: lose weight or risk diabetes.

New research in Nature Medicine flipped... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/03/2603180...

#Diabetes #MetabolicHealth #Prediabetes #Nutrition #Longevity

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A ketogenic diet put his ulcerative colitis into complete remission — off all medications, confirmed on colonoscopy.

Dr. Nick Norwitz (PhD Oxford, MD Harvard) explains why "evidence-based" care isn't always optimal care, how keto rewires the gut and brain, and why G...
https://youtu.be/Kes5Ph6-SGU

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As a medical school professor, pay attention to your sleep patterns. They may be ... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2...

#Dementia #CircadianRhythm #BrainHealth #MetabolicHealth #Longevity

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What if you could turn off the taste of sugar?
Now you can.
Excess sugar consumption is a major driver of metabolic dysfunction, and sometimes willpower alone isn't enough to resist it.
https://robertlufkinmd.com/discounts/

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As a medical school professor, I teach that mitochondrial damage drives aging, neurodegeneration, cancer, and di... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
news.uq.edu.au/2026-01-new-potential-tr...

#Mitochondria #Aging #MetabolicHealth #Longevity #MicroRNA

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As a medical school professor,... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
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#CancerPrevention #UltraProcessedFood #MetabolicHealth #Nutrition #Longevity

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As a medical school professor, I love when medicine humbles us.

Metformin has been around for a century. We thought we u... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/2604150...

#Diabetes #Metformin #GutMicrobiome #MetabolicHealth #InsulinResistance

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A 99-year-old legend just announced his next movie project.
By the time it hits theaters in April 2027, he'll be over 100.
The longevity revolution is here!
"May the Schwartz be with you."
How will YOU celebrate your 100th birthday?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEpENwcZlcI

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As a medical school professor, I teach that certain proteins trigger cell death. Turns out one of them -- MLKL -- is doing someth... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/04/2604160...

#Aging #MitochondrialHealth #StemCells #ImmuneSystem #Longevity

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There is a phrase I have been repeating for years, most recently in my book Lies I Taught in Medical School: the system is not broken — it is working exactly as designed. But that design was never built around metabolic truth. My conversatio...
https://x.com/robertlufkinmd/status/2045112505496961307

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As a medical school professor, I rarely say a paper is "actually insane" -- but this one published in Cell might qualify.

A Korean rese... https://www.youtube.com/@RobertLufkinMD
https://x.com/zanehkoch/status/2044454878727311744

#Longevity #Epigenetics #GeneTherapy #AgingReversal #MetabolicHealth

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As a medical school professor, I can tell you: we have been teaching the wrong health priorities.

New OHSU research analyzing nationwide CDC data found that insuffic... www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/01/2601082...

#Sleep #Longevity #MetabolicHealth #HealthOptimization #Prevention

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CT scan before and after keto diet in the same patient.

What differences do you notice?

What happened to the visceral fat?

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I teach medical students that ketones are backup fuel for the brain. New research says they do something far more powerful.

Scientists found that beta-hydroxybutyrate (BHB) -- the pr... https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC12889508/

#Alzheimers #Ketones #BrainHealth #MetabolicHealth #Longevity

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