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How Oil Is Processed
The 60 Quintillion Problem in One Tablespoon
The whole seed helps you live longer. Press the oil out and it’s suddenly blamed for cancer. The real difference is what the factory does to it. Dr. Aaron Hartman and Udo Erasmus on how oil is processed, and the damage in a single tablespoon.
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Concussions • Pt 3
The Fire That Won't Go Out
Why You're Still Not Recovering From a Concussion (and the Road Back)
You rested. You waited. And months, even years later, you’re still not yourself. The problem usually isn’t how hard you were hit; it’s that the inflammation never switched off. Here’s why the fire keeps burning, and the root-cause plan that puts it out.
Concussions • Pt 2
The Concussion Symptoms No One Connects to a Head Injury
Your Gut, Heart, Hormones, & Mood
You rested, the scan was clean, and everyone moved on. But your sleep, your gut, your heart, and your mood never came back. Those scattered symptoms may all trace back to one head injury, and to the single nerve that wires your brain to the rest of your body.
Concussions
Your Brain on Fire: What a Concussion Actually Is (and Why the MRI Says You're Fine)
A normal MRI doesn’t mean your brain is fine. A concussion is a secondary inflammatory cascade, a brain on fire, and an old hit you barely remember can be what set up the illness you’re fighting today. Dr. Aaron Hartman on what a concussion actually is.
Long COVID
Why Effective Long COVID Treatments Stay Off-Label for Years
The best tools for long COVID usually aren’t the newest ones. They’re old, repurposed, and stuck in a long gap between “we know this helps” and “you’re allowed to have it.” Here’s why that gap exists, and what to do inside it.
Long COVID
The Problem With Saying “There’s Nothing You Can Do” for Long COVID
Patients keep hearing there’s nothing left to try for long COVID. Meanwhile there’s a long list of repurposed therapies that have worked, sometimes dramatically, in real exam rooms. Here’s what’s actually on it.
Long COVID
Long COVID Isn’t One Disease. It’s Several Overlapping Problems.
Two people catch the same virus and end up with completely different illnesses. That’s the clue most of medicine misses about long COVID: it was never one disease. It’s more like a recipe.
Long COVID • Pt 1
Why Are Long COVID Clinics Closing (and What Happens to Patients Now)?
The funding dried up. The research centers folded. But the patients are still in my exam room. Long COVID clinics are closing across the country with zero approved therapies to show for a billion-dollar initiative… and 17 to 23 million Americans who are still sick. Dr. Aaron Hartman on why this pattern is older than the pandemic, and what it tells us about how medicine handles the patients it can’t explain.
Peptides & Biological Signaling • Pt 4
The Peptide Paradox: How Restricting Safe Clinical Access Made the Wild West Bigger
When the system narrows the legitimate path, demand doesn't disappear. It just moves somewhere nobody can track it.
The FDA restricted 19 peptides in September 2023. One month later, tirzepatide was approved for weight loss. Dr. Hartman explains what actually happened.
Peptides & Biological Signaling • Pt 3
When the Body Forgets How to Heal
What Peptides Are Actually For
Your body doesn’t forget how to heal all at once. It happens slowly: growth hormone pulses less, sleep gets shallower, injuries take longer, connective tissue stops holding.
Peptides & Biological Signaling • Pt 2
Your Body Has Been Making Peptides Since Before You Were Born
The Cultural Story Around Peptides Got the Science Backwards
Everyone’s heard about peptides. Almost nobody has a clear answer to the most basic question: what are they? Here’s the explanation you’ve been waiting for.
Peptides & Biological Signaling • Pt 1
Weight Loss is the Least Interesting Thing GLP-1s Can Do
You’ve Been Fed The Wrong Story About Semaglutide
For patients with MCAS, POTS, and chronic inflammatory illness (patients who have nothing to do with weight loss) something else is happening.
Hypermobility
The Pentad Supersyndrome: Five Conditions. One Root Cause.
Connective Tissue & Chronic Illness.
If you’ve been told nothing is wrong but you can’t get off the couch — or you have a folder full of specialist notes and no unifying diagnosis — this framework may finally explain why.
Perimenopause Is a Litmus Test.
Why Midlife Often Exposes the Physiological Load Women Have Been Carrying for Decades
What if perimenopause symptoms aren’t just about hormones? Dr. Hartman and Cynthia Thurlow on gut health, the estrobolome, and midlife resilience.
Medical Blindspots • Pt 3
Becoming a Medical Feminist
Why Women’s Health Requires a Different Lens
About 80% of the patients Dr. Hartman sees are women. And over the years, he noticed a pattern. This article names six specific ways the system fails them (and why it’s not random).
Medical Blind Spots • Pt 2
Medical Gaslighting
When Medicine Says It’s All in Your Head
If you’ve ever been told your symptoms are stress, anxiety, or “just in your head,” you’ve experienced what Dr. Hartman calls medical gaslighting. It’s not manipulation. It’s a structural problem in how medicine handles uncertainty. And it has a pattern.
Medical Blindspots • Pt 1
How Often Is Modern Medicine Wrong?
The Pattern No One Wants to Talk About
Some medical errors are just errors. Others become doctrine.
How Much Sun Exposure Do You Need for Vitamin D?
A Doctor’s Guide to Getting It Right
The sun has been vilified for decades, but emerging research shows that avoiding it altogether may be just as dangerous as overdoing it. Dr. Hartman breaks down exactly how much sun you need and how his family navigates this balance every summer.
The REAL Story on Fat
Why Everything You’ve Been Told About Healthy Fats & Seed Oils Misses the Point
Fat is one of the most misunderstood topics in health. Dr. Aaron Hartman explains why the “good fat vs. bad fat” debate misses what actually matters, and how the fats in your body shape every signal your cells send.
Mystery Illnesses • Pt 5
When the Mystery Won’t Resolve
Why You Can Check All the Right Boxes and Still Feel Stuck
You’ve done everything right—treated infections, addressed your environment, improved your labs—and you’re still not fully well. This is where many patients get stuck, and why recovery doesn’t always follow a straight line.
Mystery Illnesses • Pt 4
When Everything Feels Like a Trigger
Mast Cells, Chemical Sensitivity, and Why the Body Becomes Reactive
When everything becomes a trigger (foods, chemicals, even medications) it can feel random. It isn’t. Here’s the biology behind it.