Health Curious
Why I Created Health Curious
Health Curious brings together what I have learned through years of reading and exploring health research. The website covers metabolic health, brain health, Alzheimer's risk reduction, cancer, healthy aging, and emerging research that sometimes challenges conventional thinking.
My interest is in helping people, particularly as they grow older, better understand their health and the choices available to them.
I explore established treatments, promising new approaches, and questions that remain unsettled. My goal is to share worthwhile research, encourage curiosity, and help readers make informed decisions in partnership with their healthcare team.
Who Might Benefit From Health Curious?
Health Curious is for people who want to become better-informed advocates for their own health, particularly as they grow older.
It may be especially useful for readers interested in healthy aging, understanding personal or family health risks, evaluating nutrition and wellness claims, and exploring emerging medical research.
The goal is to help readers ask better questions and make more informed decisions with their healthcare professionals.
Where to Start
New to Health Curious? These five topics offer a useful introduction to the website.
Explore the connections among nutrition, insulin resistance, and metabolic health, including the evidence for lower-carbohydrate diets.
Learn why maintaining muscle strength, balance, and physical activity becomes increasingly important as we grow older.
Understand how sleep affects metabolic health, cardiovascular health, brain function, and everyday well-being.
Explore my personal interest in Alzheimer's prevention and what research suggests about protecting brain health as we age.
Examine the potential benefits and limitations of fasting, including special considerations for older adults.
Explore the Topics
Nutrition & Metabolic Health
Everyday Habits & Healthy Aging
Tests & Supplements
Brain Health
Immune Health
Cancer
Other Health Conditions
Healthy Aging & Retirement
Perspectives & Resources
How I Approach the Research
I am not a scientist or medical researcher. Health Curious reflects my efforts as an interested layperson to understand important health issues.
Some of the ideas presented here reflect mainstream medicine, others involve emerging research, and some challenge conventional thinking.
Not all evidence is equally strong. Research differs in quality, design, and relevance to the question being asked. I try to distinguish findings from human studies from those based on animal experiments or preliminary theories, and to explain important limitations.
My goal is to remain open-minded without accepting every promising idea—or dismissing one simply because definitive clinical trials have not yet been completed.
Where possible, I distinguish evidence about symptoms or laboratory markers from evidence that a treatment improves quality of life, prevents illness, or helps people live longer.
I try to check important claims against original research and reputable medical sources, explain uncertainties, and provide links so readers can better understand the evidence and discuss its relevance with their healthcare professionals.
About Roger
I am 82 and live in a continuing care retirement community (CCRC). My professional background is in finance and business. I have an MBA in finance and have worked as a financial analyst, entrepreneur, and financial advisor.
For more than 25 years, I have been interested in functional and preventive medicine, particularly nutrition, metabolic health, cardiovascular disease, and brain health.
My interest is also personal. I had a mild heart attack in 2004, and Alzheimer's disease has affected both sides of my family. These experiences strengthened my interest in prevention and in healthy aging.
I follow a largely low-carbohydrate, low-grain diet and continue to explore established and emerging approaches to health.
I approach health research much as I approached problems during my professional career: stay curious, ask questions, consider different viewpoints, and carefully evaluate the evidence.
Medical Disclaimer
Health Curious is intended for educational purposes only and does not provide personal medical advice. Information on this website should not replace consultation with a qualified healthcare professional. Before making significant changes to medications, supplements, diet, or exercise, discuss them with your healthcare professional.