"Is creatine actually safe for my kidneys?"
Short answer: yes, in the people who've been studied. Long answer: who hasn't been studied, what the studies actually measured, and the one population for whom the question is honestly still open.
The other two formats
A weekly second opinion. A monthly honest review.
The Cases are the keystone — but they're long, and they come at the cadence of real human follow-up. Between them, two shorter formats do work the Cases can't. Both are open, both are rigorous, both are written for the viewer who would rather understand than be told.
Format 02
The Questions
Short episodes that take a single real question — the kind people post on Reddit at 1 a.m. — and give it the answer a great doctor would give, if they had three hours instead of seven minutes.
The format is simple. A clinician picks one question from what people are actually asking online. They restate it cleanly. They tell you what is actually known, what is suspected, and what is still a guess — labeled, in plain language, so you can tell the difference. They walk through the reasoning, including the parts that contradict the popular answer. And they finish with the question they would ask back, if it were you sitting across from them.
No takes. No theatre. No "this one trick." If the honest answer is we don't know yet, that is the episode.
What you can expect
- 10 to 20 minutes, weekly.
- One question per episode, picked from real public threads.
- Every claim labeled: well-established, emerging, or reasoned guess.
- The reasoning chain shown, not just the conclusion.
- A printable one-page summary in the notes.
Submit a question — really. The team reads them.
"If you can't tell the audience how confident you are, you haven't actually answered the question. You've just performed an answer."
— from the editorial guide
— from the editorial guide
A few questions we've taken seriously
"Are my cholesterol numbers a real problem?"
How to read a lipid panel like a doctor — including the values your standard report doesn't even show, and the ones it shows that aren't really telling you what you think.
"Does fasted cardio do anything?"
For fat loss, almost nothing the marketing claims. For other things — yes, but the other things are smaller and more interesting than the marketing.
Format 03
The Stacks
High performers bring the supplements, peptides, and prescriptions they're actually on — and a senior clinician tells them, on the record, what's working, what's theater, what may be harmful, and what they're missing.
"The Stacks" exists because almost no one in this part of the internet is being told the truth about their own regimen. The most ambitious people we know are running ten- to thirty-item stacks based on a podcast, a friend, a study they read the abstract of. Half of it is fine. Some of it is excellent. A surprising amount is either pointless or quietly working against them.
The guest brings the real bottles. They bring labs from before, and labs from now. The doctor goes through it line by line, with dosages and timing. They are honest about what the evidence supports — and what the evidence cannot support, no matter how attractive the molecule sounds.
No one is sponsored. The doctors have no equity in the products discussed.
What the format covers
- Every item the guest is taking — including the ones they didn't think to mention.
- Interactions: what's competing for absorption, what's stacking with what.
- Markers: how we'd know each item is doing what it's claimed to be doing.
- The honest "stop taking this" list, where it applies.
- The "you should probably be on this and aren't" list, where it applies.
"The most useful conversation a smart person can have about their stack is the one no one is selling them."
The Stacks · Archetype
A founder's 22-item morning stack — and the four items doing 90% of the work.
An operator running a 22-supplement-plus-two-peptide regimen, with a pre-Stack RHR of 62, a Vo2 max in the 92nd percentile for his age, and a fasting insulin he was unaware was inching up. The doctor's read: four items earning their place, eleven that won't hurt and aren't measurably helping, three that should come off this month, two that need labs before they continue, and one missing item that, at his risk profile, is genuinely indicated.
A flavor of the rubric
Creatine, 5 g daily
Keep
Strong evidence, on-target use
Magnesium glycinate, 400 mg pm
Keep
Labs support need; timing correct
NMN, 1 g am
Re-evaluate
Insufficient human evidence at dose
"Adrenal support" blend
Discontinue
Undisclosed glucocorticoid risk
Omega-3, low-dose
Increase
Index below evidence-based target
Illustrative line items. The full rubric is published as part of each Stacks episode.
All three formats together
A long-form practice, a short-form practice, and an accountability practice. One universe.
The Cases teach you how to think about a complicated patient. The Questions teach you how to read evidence the way a clinician does. The Stacks teach you how to call your own behavior honestly. Each one makes the others sharper.