If You’re Going to Remove the Clinician, You Have to Think Like a Clinician (and Ride Your Bike)
The author recounts a personal health alert after a bike ride, where his KardiaMobile 6L’s AI flagged a wide QRS complex despite a normal sinus rhythm history. A cardiologist’s overread deemed the reading normal, underscoring the tension between AI‑driven wearables and clinical interpretation. The post uses this episode to argue that as diagnostics become transparent, clinicians must still think like clinicians to contextualize data. It highlights the broader shift toward AI‑mediated health monitoring and the need for human oversight.
Was the Roundup Vote Really About Roundup?
On April 30 the U.S. House voted 280‑142 to strip three pesticide‑liability provisions from the Farm Bill, signaling the first crack in a six‑decade regulatory contract. The broader Farm Bill passed later that day, and the Supreme Court is hearing...
Part III: How to Build a Competitive MAHA ELEVATE Application
The author warns that the May 15 MAHA ELEVATE deadline is only two weeks away and stresses that a competitive application must score well above the eligibility threshold. While a 65‑point draft meets the cut‑off, most winning submissions score 75‑plus...
Start Here: What Is System C?
The blog outlines a new “System C” framework that aims to align food and healthcare around human health outcomes, targeting the $9 trillion blind spot created by chronic disease. It argues that current food (System B) and healthcare systems are optimized...
The Prescription Most Doctors Won’t Write
Dr. Joseph Pizzorno argues that most physicians prescribe adding treatments rather than stopping harmful exposures, highlighting a hidden health crisis driven by environmental chemicals in food and packaging. He cites research suggesting roughly 90% of the diabetes epidemic stems from...
From The Field
The Food Is Health newsletter is consolidating its many emails into a single weekly update, aiming to cut through inbox overload. Recent highlights include a livestream with Dr. Brooks Leitner emphasizing VO2 max as a top longevity predictor and the launch...
The New Stack CMS Built While You Weren't Looking
CMS has unveiled a coordinated payment architecture that expands beyond traditional fee‑for‑service, launching the ACCESS model with over 150 approved participants slated to begin July 5. The model pays Medicare beneficiaries directly for outcome‑aligned chronic disease management, featuring consumer brands...
What Your Wearable Knows That Your Doctor Ignores: Weekly Livestream W/ Brooks Leitner
The Food is Health newsletter is hosting a live stream on April 17 at 2 p.m. ET with Dr. Brooks Leitner, a Yale‑trained physician‑scientist and co‑founder of VO Health. The discussion will focus on VO2 max, a fitness metric that research shows...
Weeks 5-7 of AI Agent Corner: From an Experiment to a Team
The AI Agent Corner series chronicles how Ellen Brown’s agent Uni and Carter Williams’s agent Wilson evolved from experimental tools to a multi‑room operational team. Over weeks 5‑7 the duo tackled five simultaneous channels, exposing pain points such as context...
Weekly FIH Livestream | Inside the CPG Machine - A 30-Year Veteran on Why the Outcomes Layer Doesn't Exist Yet
WiseCode is building the world’s most comprehensive, real‑time food attribute database, linking product scans to DNA, blood work and long‑term eating patterns. Its Scout app lets consumers add new items in seconds, creating a continuously expanding data set. The company’s...
MAHA ELEVATE Part II: Should You Apply? And If Yes, Where Do You Actually Start?
CMS has launched the MAHA ELEVATE $100 million cooperative agreement, inviting up to 30 organizations to run randomized, evidence‑generating lifestyle and functional‑medicine trials in the Original Medicare population. A non‑binding Letter of Intent is due by April 10 5 pm ET, with full applications required by...