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2026 Can Cracking Your Neck Cause a Stroke? The Sore Neck May Be the Warning Most people with a torn neck artery have neck pain or a headache, so the sore neck someone gets adjusted may already be the tear. 01What actually tears? 02So did the crack cause it? 03What should you do with a sore neck? 1220 October
2026 Fibermaxxing for Your Brain? The Best Evidence Is in Your Blood Vessels The strongest evidence linking fiber to a healthier brain is that people who eat the most of it have fewer strokes. 01So what’s all the fiber hype about? 02Then what does fiber do for your brain? 03Are you getting enough? 1118 October
2026 A Slipped Disc Can Shrink on Its Own On follow-up MRI scans, the slipped discs with the scariest-sounding names are the ones that most often shrink back on their own. 01What actually slipped? 02Then why would it shrink? 03So should you wait? 1013 October
2026 Dopamine Reset? Look at Your Sleep Before Your Phone When scientists scanned healthy men after one night without sleep, fewer of their dopamine receptors were free to work. 01So what does one bad night do? 02Wait, isn’t that just more dopamine? 03What about my phone? 0911 October
2026 Anesthesia and Memory: What Families Can Actually Do Many older patients fear the anesthetic will take their memory. The clearer link to later decline is delirium, which families can help prevent. 01Spinal or general, in a broken hip 02Delirium, and what lowers the odds 03Where this gets ahead of the evidence 086 October
2026 Your Pain Has a Volume Knob, and It Can Be Turned Down How much pain bothers you is weighed next door to the part of your brain that keeps you going. 01Strength and bother come apart 02The neighbour, and the dial you can turn 03Where this gets ahead of the evidence 074 October
2026 Your Antidepressant Is Also Working on Your Blood The effect on clotting is small but real. It is a reason to tell your surgeon, never a reason to stop the drug. 01Your platelets borrow their serotonin 02What happens when you close the door 03Where this gets ahead of the evidence 0629 September
2026 The Drug After Ozempic Loses More Weight. Not for the Reason You’ve Been Told. The newest weight-loss drug adds a hormone meant to make you burn more. The evidence so far points somewhere plainer. 01Three hormones, and the brake they fight 02The hormone added to push back 03Where this gets ahead of the evidence 0527 September
2026 The Drugs Nobody Counts Brain fog is a symptom, not a diagnosis. The most reversible cause of it is usually sitting in a bathroom cabinet, bought without a prescription. 01What the pill in the cabinet actually does 02The headline everybody has heard 03Where this gets ahead of the evidence 0422 September
2026 Caffeine Makes You Faster, Not Smarter I agreed on camera that more stimulation is not better. Then I read the trials, and what they actually show is stranger than that. 01The trial that put both kinds of drinker in the same room 02What wears off, and what never does 03Where this gets ahead of the evidence 0321 September
2026 Estrogen Was Never Only a Reproductive Hormone A patient told me she was losing her mind. She was not. The reason has sat in the wrong drawer for fifty years, and the answer is now being oversold. 01Estrogen is not just a sex hormone 02What the fog actually is 03Where this gets ahead of the science 0215 September
2026 Why Your Antidepressant Makes You Wait The chemistry is corrected on the very first day, yet nothing happens for weeks. That gap is the most interesting thing about these drugs, and it is why the explanation we were all given turned out to be wrong. 01The detail that never fitted 02So somebody went looking 03Rehab, not a painkiller 04What follows, and what does not 0111 September
2026 Ozempic and the Brain’s Reward System The first surprise with semaglutide may not be what happens to the waistline. It may be what happens to the brain's response to reward. Two randomized trials, one real-world study, and what the internet gets wrong. 01A gut hormone with keys to the brain 02What the studies actually show 03Where the internet gets ahead of the science

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Dr. Rod J. Oskouian
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Rod Oskouian

I started AXON because the questions patients actually ask me are the ones nobody answers properly. Not on social media, not in a journal. Each issue takes one claim, puts the real studies beside it, and says plainly what holds up and what does not. I write it myself. No ghostwriter, no content team.

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