It’s 3:17am and a patient I’ll see tomorrow has texted me — not urgently, just a message she’ll expect me to read in the morning. But the reason I know it’s 3:17am is because I’m awake. Not from the notification. From the thing that woke me before it arrived. I know this pattern well. I’ve lived it. I’ve studied it. And the number of women over 40 who are experiencing […]

Why some women in Singapore seem to have refined, expensive-looking skin without relying on heavy makeup — and what skin quality really means.

I ordered my first quarterly blood panel because I was writing my book and wanted to understand my own baseline before recommending anything to patients that I hadn’t applied to myself. That was straightforward enough. What I didn’t anticipate was how interesting the longitudinal data would become — not the absolute values, which were mostly within range, but the patterns. What moved, and when. What correlated with what. I ran […]