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Cancer in the family and when genetic testing is worth it

Build the family tree first, test the relative who's sick if you can, and know what a "variant of uncertain significance" actually means.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Forgetting Names at Fifty and When to Get It Checked

Most name-blanking at fifty is retrieval, not loss. But a few patterns are worth an appointment, and a few fixable things look exactly like memory trouble.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your legs won't sit still at night and ferritin is the test

The evening urge to move your legs has a name, a common cause, and a cheap blood test most people never get ordered.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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Chemo runs on a cycle and your week should too

Fatigue, food that tastes like a penny, and the kind of help worth asking for by name, from someone planning around infusion day.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Men get breast cancer, and they almost always find it late

It's usually a hard, painless lump under one nipple, it's easy to write off as a gym knot, and the men who do well are the ones who got it checked fast.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The colonoscopy nobody warns you about is the night before

The scope takes about half an hour and you sleep through it. The prep is the part you have to plan around your job and your kids.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Autoimmune disease in plain language and how to keep training

What it means when your immune system misreads your own tissue, which tests actually tell you something, and how to lift and sleep around a flare.

Quiz

Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Surveillance, surgery or radiation and how men actually choose

Your pathology report has three numbers that drive the whole decision. Learn to read them, then take the weeks you're allowed to take.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The Parkinson's signs that show up years before the tremor

Smell, sleep, handwriting and one arm that stopped swinging. The tremor is the late arrival, and the early stuff is easy to miss.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Working nights without wrecking your sleep, heart and waistline

Rotating shifts are hard on the body, but most of the damage comes from four or five fixable habits. Start with the drive home.

Dude.com — 16 advisers who listen, talk and pray with you

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

The lung scan takes ten seconds and most who qualify skip it

A low-dose CT is a 20-second breath hold, no needle, no fasting. If you smoked a pack a day for 20 years, it's probably free. Here's who it's for.

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Where does your best time with your kids happen?

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Bunions, flat feet and when an insole is worth the money

Pull the insole out of your boot, stand on it, and look down. That five-second test settles most foot arguments before you spend a dime.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Snoring is noise until it stops, then it's a warning

The volume doesn't tell you much. The silences do. How to tell ordinary snoring from the kind that's wrecking your recovery.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Concussion in adults and the symptoms that linger

The dark room for a week is outdated advice. What actually helps, what the red flags are, and how to stage your way back to work without relapsing twice.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.