Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM Diets are a fairy tale. Remember: diets don’t work. What counts are calories, physical activity, stress control and sleep. The problem with yo-yo diets The dangerous thing is yo-yo dieting: you gain weight, you lose weight, you gain weight, you…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM Most patients think of cognitive decline as something that happens in the late 60s or 70s — a gradual fogging that arrives decades after the body starts ageing. The data tells a different story. Processing speed, working memory, and the…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM Testosterone is the hormone most people associate exclusively with men. That’s the first misunderstanding I try to correct in the clinic. Women produce testosterone too — in the ovaries and adrenal glands — and its decline in both sexes is…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM The gut microbiome is one of the most clinically underused diagnostic tools in preventive medicine. Most of my patients over 40 have never had a microbiome analysis. Yet when we measure it — looking at specific markers like butyrate producers,…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM Patients ask me what to eat for longevity more than almost any other question. My honest answer: the research is messier than most people want it to be. But I’ve found a short list of foods with specific mechanistic evidence…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM One pattern I keep seeing in clinic: patients in their 50s or 60s who feel a decade older than they should — persistent fatigue, brain fog, joints that ache without explanation, an immune system that seems sluggish. Their standard labs…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM These five supplements keep coming up in longevity research and clinical discussions. None are magic pills, but each has a reason people are paying attention. NMN (Nicotinamide Mononucleotide) NMN converts to NAD+ in your cells. NAD+ is needed for energy…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM If you’ve taken probiotics before — from the pharmacy or just yogurt with billions of live cultures — they probably helped temporarily. But what most people don’t understand: generic probiotics can’t rebuild your gut lining. There’s one microbe that works…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM People who take the most saunas have the lowest risk of Alzheimer’s disease. There’s a study from Finland. People who took zero to one a week, two to three a week, and five to seven a week. The two to…
Dr. Jean Garant MendozaMD, Longevity Medicine Specialist · Nº 6522 · Member SEMAL & ACAM What to do to lose a bit more weight? Walk 10 minutes. 10 minutes after meals. That will avoid especially the insulin spikes. Insulin, we know it’s related with obesity, with chronic diseases like cancer, Alzheimer’s. It’s also related when…