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Care Team Perspective

An exercise physiologist weighs the evidence on massage guns, cold plunges, compression and red light therapy, and explains what matters most for recovery.

Care Team Perspective

An exercise physiologist explains heart rate variability (HRV): what it measures, why yours changes, and how to use your own baseline to guide training.

Care Team Perspective

Your watch sets heart rate zones from age-based estimates. See how lab VO₂ max testing measures your own thresholds and makes your training zones personal.

Care Team Perspective

Electrolytes seem to be the current marketed “health and fitness” item to ingest.

Care Team Perspective

Heather Milton explores how exercise selection, intensity, recovery, and progression can be tailored to your goals, training history, and ability.

Care Team Perspective

RSV, COVID-19, and influenza—what the latest evidence shows, what I recommend, and how your PrimaryMD team can help determine what applies to you

Guide & Explainer

PrimaryMD explains the Judgment Gap in longevity medicine: why more health data is not enough, and why evidence-based longevity care requires physician judgment, clean incentives, and decision-linked testing.

Guide & Explainer

Learn how to start exercising safely with a family history of heart disease, including symptoms to watch, testing to discuss, and how to build gradually.

Guide & Explainer

Learn what a long-term primary care strategy should include, from continuity and diagnostics to specialist coordination and proactive follow-through.

Guide & Explainer

PrimaryMD explains how busy adults can protect energy, sleep, metabolic health, and cardiovascular risk while balancing work and family demands.

Guide & Explainer

Annual checkups can miss changing health risks. Learn why trends, follow-up, and ongoing physician access matter between yearly primary care visits.

Guide & Explainer

Some popular health habits can increase cardiovascular risk. Learn when endurance training, diets, hormones, cold exposure, and supplements need medical context.