NSAIDs like ibuprofen and naproxen are the go-to for pain, but they carry real risks: 100,000 hospitalizations and 17,000 deaths yearly in the US from stomach, kidney, and heart complications. Dr. O'Keefe shares how omega-3 and curcumin work together as a gentler, natural anti-inflammatory, easing joint pain without the dangerous downsides, backed by research and his own daily routine. Read when NSAIDs still make sense, and when this duo is the smarter choice.

Many Americans are sick. Increasingly, people have diseases like diabetes, cancer, heart disease, and Alzheimer’s; many more struggle with elevated blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides, too much belly fat, low testosterone, menstrual irregularities, infertility, fatty liver, sleep disorders, and depression and anxiety.

For 300,000 years our survival depended on daily face-to-face contact. Today, screens have quietly replaced the hangouts, the shared meals, and the hugs — and the Surgeon General calls loneliness as dangerous as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Dr. O'Keefe on Ubuntu, the Swedish paradox of living alone without being lonely, the 86-year Harvard study on warm relationships, and the prescription he writes: One Dog, walked once or twice daily.