Section 02 of 09 1 essay · Spring 2026

Physical Health.

The body, its diseases, the medicine, and the institutions around them.

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Priya Shah

The body is, properly understood, mostly other people's problem. We report on disease, medicine, public policy, and the long argument about what the body owes the world.

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Diseases

The conditions themselves — what is known, what is being researched, and what remains uncertain.

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Medical Controversies

The arguments medicine keeps having with itself — cholesterol, biologics, and the system that resists correction.

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Path Toward Health

The practical interventions with actual evidence — diet, sleep, movement, and the slow reconstruction of function.

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Heart Disease — Diabetes 01 Weight — Liver Disease — Kidney Disease — Alzheimer's Disease —

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