Why muscle might be the most important thing you're ignoring after 50

Most people think about their heart, their weight, or their blood pressure — but muscle may be the real key to staying strong, independent, and injury-free as you age. In this episode, our primary care and sports medicine team breaks down why muscle matters at every age, and what actually works to protect it.

We get into:
💪 Why muscle mass drives your strength, balance, and longevity — not just your looks
🚶 Why walking is great… but not nearly enough on its own
⚡ "Fast-twitch" muscles, falls, and the hidden link to fractures as we age
🤝 The surprising reason grip strength can predict heart disease
🏋️ How much resistance training you really need (and how to avoid overdoing it)
🍳 Protein: how much you need, what to watch out for, and where cheap powders go wrong
📊 How we actually measure and track muscle in real patients

Whether you're 40, 50, or 70, you'll walk away knowing exactly where to start — and why it's never too late.

🎧 Press play and start building the strength that keeps you moving for decades.

This episode is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice.

Is the Mediterranean diet actually the healthiest way to eat — or just hype?

In this episode, we cut through the noise on one of the most talked-about eating styles in the world. It's not about a rigid "diet" or giving up the foods you love — it's about small, realistic changes that actually stick.

We get into:
🌈 Why "eating from the rainbow" matters more than counting calories
🛒 The simple grocery-store trick that quietly upgrades your cart
💪 Why protein deserves way more of your attention than it used to
🏃 How your activity level should change what's on your plate
✅ The easy swaps that make healthy eating doable for real life

Whether you're an athlete, stuck at a desk all day, or just trying to feel better, you'll walk away with practical steps you can start today.

🎧 Hit play and rethink what's on your plate.

This episode is for general informational and educational purposes only and is not medical advice.

Real or Fake Good? How to Tell What's True When Everything Sounds True

Everyone sounds like an expert now — so how do you tell real from fake? In the age of AI, fluent confidence is cheap and fabricated sources are everywhere. This episode gives you a practical, doctor-tested framework for judging health claims, spotting misinformation, and knowing when to trust your gut.

We break down Malcolm Gladwell's "thin-slicing" (when snap judgments work and when they fail), what AI actually changed about spotting fakes, and the influencer playbook of real mechanism → unsupported leap → product. Then we ask a surprisingly useful question — are the Detroit Tigers real or fake good? — to explain small sample sizes, regression to the mean, and why the same logic applies to small medical studies.

You'll also get the anatomy of a con (urgency, authority, plausibility), Gladwell's "default to truth," healthcare-specific scams to watch for, and a 5-question checklist you can use on anything:

1. Who benefits if I believe this?
2. Does the source exist and say what's claimed?
3. Mechanism or outcome?
4. What would change this person's mind?
5. Am I judging inside my own expertise?

Plus a Michigan Minute on the latest AI scam alerts. Whether you're a patient, a skeptic, or just tired of being fooled online, you'll leave able to think more clearly about what's true.

Your cholesterol panel says you're fine. So why do people with "normal" numbers still have heart attacks?

In our first episode, the physicians of PrimeCare of Michigan go past the standard cholesterol test to the numbers that actually matter. We break down the apolipoproteins — ApoB, ApoA-1, and ApoE — and explain why they give a sharper picture of your heart risk than the panel most people get. We cover the newest medications changing how cholesterol is treated, and we take on the statin question head-on: the myths worth putting to rest, and the handful of things that are legitimately true and worth knowing.

Then we take the long way around — from reading the body at higher resolution to reading the universe that way, and what the James Webb telescope has to do with your arteries. It's never unrelated.

Whether you're statin-curious, statin-skeptical, or just tired of conflicting health advice, this one's for you.

Have a question you want answered on the show? Reach out through PrimeCareofMI.com.We offer both traditional and concierge medicine in the great city of Novi.