Um…. Wow. I don’t know that I’ve ever read a health book by a medical doctor (or anyone) with this combination of advice. Some highlights…. Diseases related to high blood pressure, high blood sugar, cholesterol and cancer are now the biggest killers. Lifestyle changes won’t do much to help any of it. Take statins, blood pressure medication, drugs like Ozempic, Metformin (a blood sugar and diabetes medication) and other medication. He says that even people who aren’t diabetic should take Metformin. Patients are ignorant if they don’t want to take medication. Take antidepressants too (he calls them miracle pills). Have a glass of wine or two every night. Drink a lot of coffee. Get a doctor you like and ask for lots of screenings and medications. Aim to be at “normal” weight at the lowest, better to be overweight or class one obese because you live longer if you’re overweight. Just take all the drugs and you’ll be golden.

About the only advice he gives that is remotely like most healthy living advice is at the very end he says to eat more vegetables and to do some exercise and walking. Otherwise it’s all about taking lots and lots of prescriptions, getting vaccinated and doing aggressive cancer screening.

This may be welcome advice for many people. It was not a good fit for me.

I read an advance copy of this book via netgalley.