Blooming Wellness

12/01/2025

I told someone I'd be back in a jiffy. That was not a jiffy ago. I can feel them googling how long a jiffy is.

11/29/2025

Longevity hack discovered: apparently it’s not coffee or tea… it’s coffee + tea + water.
So basically we’re living longer through pure beverage chaos!

Anyone else doing this combo without even realizing it?

Link to the full breakdown in the comments.

11/27/2025

I love this place & its unicorn vibe.
Also, Barnaby getting the VIP* treatment.

*very important pup

11/23/2025

I went for a long run this AM.
The sky was pretty.
How's your day??

11/22/2025

Single women are much happier than single men. Why?

Researcher Elaine Hoan joined the Causes or Cures podcast to put to rest some cliches & explain what's going on.
(link in comments)

11/21/2025

This piece reminds me of one of my favorite Emily Dickinson quotes:

"That it will never come again is what makes life so sweet."

Life is long enough, and a sufficiently generous amount has been given to us for the highest achievements if it were all well invested,” Seneca writes. The problem is that time is often not well invested. Too many people come to grips with mortality only when death is bearing down on them. And at ...

11/21/2025

This is an evolving situation that I know a lot of people in public health are talking about.

The World Health Organization and regional bodies like PAHO define “measles elimination” as having no endemic measles virus transmission for at least 12 months, with good surveillance in place. That does NOT mean zero cases or zero outbreaks. It means no continuous domestic transmission for a full year.
If the same measles strain keeps spreading inside a country for 12 months or more, that country can lose its elimination status.

In the US, measles was declared eliminated in 2000, and that status is still in place. A large outbreak in West Texas started in January 2025 and was declared over in August. Now there is an ongoing outbreak along the Utah–Arizona border.

There's been recent reports in the media saying that the Texas outbreak and the Arizona–Utah outbreak are likely linked as part of the same transmission chain. If that linkage holds and transmission is judged to have continued for 12 months or more, the US could lose its measles elimination status as early as January 2026.

But AT THIS TIME, this remains an evolving situation. Nothing is confirmed. We have to wait on more data and on how the verification bodies interpret it.

11/20/2025

Would it be good for society or absolute chaos?

I went down a very weird rabbit hole with scopolamine, the drug people thought was a truth serum...and honestly, the public health history is wild.
Would YOU want a real truth serum to exist?🧪
Tell me below.

And podcast links are in the comments! 🔥

11/20/2025

Food for thought.
Medicine focuses on the individual. Public health focuses on the population.
Precision medicine is taking off because that is where the research momentum and technology are exploding. Treatments tailored to the person, not the statistical average.
And if our data systems ever stop behaving like a game of telephone after last call, the next frontier might be precision public health.
Not one size fits everyone messaging, but guidance that actually fits different subgroups.
The right advice to the right groups at the right time.
Public health with a more attentive pulse.

11/19/2025

Sometimes my mind throws a parade.
Old fears riding cheap high school floats.
Ghostly dreams in sequins.
Platformed crushes waving like it’s mutual.
And the truths dropping their batons on my big toe.
And then it ends. The way it always does.

11/12/2025

Have you ever been a fool for headlines? 🙋
Have you ever read a headline that a drug cuts a risk by 50% or 60%??
It reads super impressive...however, there is ALWAYS a story behind every number in a headline, especially a health headline. I think it's important to know what that story is, so you understand the actual tangible benefits or risk to your health.
In this video and as an example, I decode one of those classic, amazing-sounding headlines with bouncy balls and kitchen props. Essentially, Absolute Risk Reduction vs Relative Risk Reduction..., the basic takeaways. What's key to know is this: Relative Risk grabs attention and makes for very clickable and shareable headlines...but Absolute Risk keeps the hype honest.
As Vanilla Ice once said, "Don't Believe the Hype!" (Or at least put it in context.)

11/11/2025

Glove weather has arrived.
For everyone...