The Boring Longevity Playbook: Why I Stopped Trusting Supplement Stacks
An emergency physician's evidence-based playbook for longevity — the 5 Tier 1 pillars that actually work, plus a free 16-week roadmap.
The Biggest Sleep Mistake Shift Workers Make (And It's Not Caffeine)
An ER physician's evidence-based sleep playbook for night-shift workers. Four circadian behaviours plus three environmental levers you can apply tonight.
Abdominal Pain ER Visit: 4 Diagnoses We Cannot Miss
An ER doctor walks through what really happens when you come in with abdominal pain — the 4 diagnoses we cannot miss, and why most cases come back to food.
What Actually Happens When You Come to the ER with Chest Pain
When you arrive at the Emergency Department with chest pain, your doctor evaluates three main body systems: the heart, the lungs, and the gastrointestinal tract. The first tests are typically an ECG and bloodwork (including troponin), often followed by a chest X-ray. If a heart attack is suspected, you may be sent directly to the cath lab. Additional imaging — such as a CT angiogram — is reserved for higher-risk presentations like suspected pulmonary embolism or aortic dissection.
The Ultimate Supplement Guide: What the Evidence Actually Says About What's in Your Medicine Cabinet
An Emergency physician walks through the evidence for creatine, vitamin D, omega-3, peptides, and more. What to keep, what to throw out.
The War on Protein: How Much You Actually Need, Where to Get It, and Why None of It Matters Without the Weights
Evidence-based protein targets by goal and age, why source matters, and why resistance training is non-negotiable. Emergency physician breaks it down.
There Are No Healthy Humans on an Unhealthy Planet
An ER doctor breaks down how climate change is already affecting your patients — and a practical Educate, Mitigate, Advocate framework for healthcare workers and the public.
Your Cholesterol Is Not a TikTok. Here’s What the Evidence Actually Says About Blood Testing.
This episode of Overheard in the Emergency Room goes deeper — including a full walkthrough of the USPSTF and ADA prevention frameworks, a detailed breakdown of the 2026 AHA/ACC dyslipidemia guideline, and evidence-based mythbusting on the large-fluffy-LDL claim and supplement-linked lab panels.
Why the US Healthcare System Is So Expensive — And What We Can Actually Do About It
An ER doctor explains why US healthcare costs so much, delivers so little, and what Medicare for All, the Great Healthcare Plan, and EMBRACE propose to fix it.
Your Gut Is Lying to You (And Social Media Is Making It Worse)
An ER doctor breaks down the gut microbiome: what it does, how to improve it, and why the carnivore 'gut reset' trend sent a patient to hospital.
Why Weight Loss Is So Hard (And What Actually Works)
Dr. Adrian Cois breaks down one of the most misunderstood medical conditions in modern healthcare: obesity.
Fluoride causes low IQ?
Do we really need to be worried about fluoride in the water in Australia or the US causing reduced IQ?
Metabolic Disease - The Ultimate Guide
Here we discuss all the highlights of metabolic disease - how common is it, how much it costs, how it happens and what you can do about it.
Exercise: the most powerful longevity “pill” (Tier 1 vs Tier 2 blueprint)
If exercise were a pill, it would be the most powerful longevity drug we have. In Episode 3, Dr Cois breaks down exactly what the evidence says about exercise across the lifespan — and turns it into a simple, repeatable plan.
Hypertension – Don’t blow your top – get it under control!
Should we be starting antihypertensives from the Emergency Room?
Here I make a case for considering it and if you have high blood pressure - give you some great tips on how to manage it without blood pressure medicine.
ED Elevator Pitch for Diet
G’day team — welcome back to Overheard in the Emergency Room. In this episode, we tackle the first Tier 1 intervention in our longevity blueprint: diet. If I had 30 seconds in the ED to give nutrition advice, what would I actually say? Not keto vs vegan. Not carb fear. Not clickbait. A repeatable pattern. We’ll use two ED cases (incidental NAFLD and severe hypertension) to make the stakes real, then zoom out to the best available evidence: dietary guidelines, short-term trials, and the world’s largest nutrition cohort studies. What you’ll learn: • Why a healthy diet is a pattern, not a religion • What the U.S., Australian, and heart-health guidelines consistently recommend • How nutrition evidence is built (mechanisms, trials, cohort studies) and why FFQ criticism is often misused online • How ultra-processed foods and the modern food environment sabotage good intentions • A tour of major cohort studies (NHS/HPFS, NIH-AARP, EPIC, UK Biobank, Million Women, China Kadoorie, JPHC, Adventist, PURE) • The 80/20 plate ‘elevator pitch’ and a 3-step plan you can start today Practical takeaways (TL;DR): • Aim for an 80/20 plate: mostly whole foods (especially plants), with room for real life. • Prioritize fiber and minimally processed foods; minimize ultra-processed calories when you can. • Swap red/processed meat more often for beans/lentils/tofu/fish/poultry depending on preference. • Create a ‘friction plan’ for busy days so healthy choices become the default.
Why your ER Doc won’t shut up about Prevention
The Blueprint for Less Bad Days, More Good Decades