Author: Neil Gulino
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Omega-3 Index Testing: How to Measure Your EPA+DHA Status and What Therapeutic Levels Look Like
Most men don’t have an omega-3 problem because they forgot salmon exists. They have one because they assume a decent diet plus a generic fish-oil capsule must be close enough. Usually it isn’t. An omega-3 index test gives you a cleaner answer by measuring EPA and DHA levels directly in red blood cell membranes, which…
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Omega-3 Index Testing: How to Know If Your Fish Oil Dose Is Actually Reaching Therapeutic Levels
Fish oil has a weird status in men’s health. It’s common enough to live next to the coffee maker, but vague enough that most people treat the dose like a lucky guess. An omega-3 index test is the fastest way to answer the only question that matters: is your fish oil effectiveness showing up in…
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Vitamin D Upper Limit for Adults (2025): NIH Office of Dietary Supplements Fact Sheet
The NIH vitamin D upper limit for adults is 4,000 IU a day from all sources combined. That’s the number the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements uses, and it traces back to the National Academies’ Food and Nutrition Board. If you’re taking a 5,000 IU capsule because the bottle looked reassuring and the internet sounded…
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Uric Acid and Metabolic Health: Why Men Over 45 Should Include This Marker in Their Annual Panel
Most men over 45 can recite the usual bloodwork lineup from memory: CBC, CMP, lipids, HbA1c, maybe testosterone if something already feels off. A uric acid test usually doesn’t make the cut. That’s a blind spot. Uric acid has been typecast as the gout number, which is a little like calling blood pressure the headache…
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The Complete Vitamin D Testing Guide for Men Over 45: 25(OH)D, Optimal Ranges, and When to Retest
Most men don’t need another vague wellness lecture. They need a vitamin D testing guide men over 45 can actually use when the lab portal shows a number, the doctor says “normal,” and the body is still sending less encouraging feedback. This is where the conversation usually goes sideways. One camp acts like vitamin D…
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TRT and Bone Density: What Men Over 50 Should Know About Skeletal Health on Testosterone Therapy
If you’re looking at TRT because energy, recovery, or libido stopped behaving like they did at 42, bone is probably not the first thing on your mind. Fair enough. Most men over 50 think about hormone therapy in terms of strength, body composition, and whether they still feel like themselves. But bone is part of…
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Direct LDL vs. Calculated LDL: Why the Testing Method Matters for Men Over 50
Most men over 50 don’t have a cholesterol problem. They have a measurement problem. The lab report says LDL is “fine,” the doctor glances at the line item, and everyone moves on. Meanwhile triglycerides are creeping up, fasting status is inconsistent, and the number being treated as hard fact is often just math from 1972…
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Food First vs. Supplement First: A Decision Framework for Men Over 45 Filling Nutritional Gaps
Most men over 45 do not have a supplement problem. They have a decision problem. The pantry says one thing, the lab panel says another, and the supplement aisle is a small monument to marketing inflation. So the useful question is not whether food or pills are morally superior. The useful question is which nutritional…
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Advanced Longevity Supplements: Beyond NMN, NR, and Urolithin A
If you’ve spent any time around the longevity internet, you’ve seen the first-wave pitch already. NMN. NR. Urolithin A. A tidy theory about cellular energy, a few interesting mechanisms, and then a supplement aisle full of labels asking for trust they haven’t earned. That’s the problem. In longevity supplements, mechanism is cheap. Quality control and…
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Advanced Longevity Supplements: Beyond NMN and NR
Most men who start digging into advanced longevity supplements run into the same two names first: NMN and NR. That made sense for a while. They were the easy shorthand for “NAD support,” the supplement industry built a small religion around them, and every second podcast guest seemed ready to explain cellular energy with the…