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The racing heart and the weight loss might be your thyroid

Hyperthyroidism shows up as anxiety, a pounding pulse and a belt notch you didn't earn. One blood test starts the whole thing.

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What a glucose monitor tells you if you don't have diabetes

Two weeks with a sensor on your arm can teach you three useful things about your food and your sleep. It can also make you afraid of oatmeal.

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The type 2 diabetes routine that fits around work and kids

Complications don't come from one bad week. They come from ten quiet years. The good news is the routine that stops them is small.

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Bone tired after forty and what to check before you blame age

Fatigue that a full night of sleep doesn't touch usually has a name. The common causes, the tests that find them, and when to stop training and call.

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When did you last ask for a raise?

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The ABCDE mole check takes two minutes in the bathroom mirror

Five letters, one honest look, and the one spot on your back you'll never see without asking your wife to look.

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Why you're up at 2 a.m. again and it's probably not the prostate

Waking to use the bathroom has about six common causes, and most of them have nothing to do with your prostate. Start by measuring, not guessing.

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Diabetes goes after your eyes and kidneys quietly

Two appointments a year, one with dilating drops and one with a cup. Skip them and the first symptom shows up long after the damage starts.

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Is your money actually in order?

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

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Before you start testosterone, get two morning blood draws

It works for the men who genuinely need it. The hard part is knowing whether you're one of them, and keeping up with the bloodwork after you start.

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Prostatitis usually isn't an infection, and that changes everything

Three rounds of antibiotics and no improvement isn't bad luck. It's a sign the diagnosis was wrong from the start.

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Your thyroid probably isn't why you're tired, but test it anyway

What TSH and free T4 actually measure, how to get the draw right, and the far more common reasons a 40-year-old with kids feels flattened.

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Your thyroid, one daily pill and the six-week recheck

Cold hands, flat lifts and a tiredness sleep won't touch. What an underactive thyroid looks like, and how the dose actually gets set.

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How many days a week are you actually training?

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Prediabetes is a head start, not a number to sit on

An A1c of 5.9 is the most useful bad news you'll get all year, if you do something with it in the next 90 days.

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Leaking after prostate surgery and the training that helps

Pelvic floor work isn't a consolation prize after surgery. Done with the right cue and the right timing, it's the biggest lever you actually control.

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Test your testosterone before 10 a.m. and do it twice

A single afternoon blood draw tells you almost nothing. The timing, the assay and the second sample are what turn a number into information.

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Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

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

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Kidney stones hurt like nothing else, so stop the next one

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What a raised ALT on your blood test actually means

Your physical came back with an H next to one liver number. Before you panic or ignore it, know what ALT and AST are really measuring.

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When your prostate starts running your nights

Three bathroom trips before sunrise isn't aging gracefully. What's actually happening, which pills do what, and how long the procedures cost you.

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