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Essays, lab interpretations, and field notes — written by the physician, never ghostwritten. On why clean labs can sit beside lives that have quietly come apart.

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Selected essays

Read the argument.

A running body of work on functional medicine, longevity, and the life a lab panel can’t measure.

San Antonio Express-News2026

AI didn’t invent loneliness. It capitalized on it.

An op-ed in the San Antonio Express-News on technology, social isolation, and the case for human-centered medicine.

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KevinMDMay 2026

Normal labs miss what most patients are living through

The panel comes back clean. The life hasn’t. Where the real work of medicine begins.

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Doximity Op-Med2026

She came in for Botox — but what she wanted was something deeper

What patients are really asking for when they ask for a procedure.

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San Antonio MedicineJul 2026

A column in San Antonio Medicine — July 2026

My writing for the Bexar County Medical Society journal (p.12).

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KevinMDJun 2026

How relationships affect health, seen from the exam room

The biology quietly follows the biography. What twenty-five years of charts kept showing.

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Doximity Op-Med2026

The word “wellness” shouldn’t be radioactive

Reclaiming a good word from the people who cheapened it.

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Out MagazineMay 2026

Featured: the risks and rewards of the P-Shot

Quoted as the physician expert on regenerative men’s health.

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KevinMDJun 2026

Why your leaky gut tests aren’t fixing your symptoms

The test is not the treatment. A functional look at what the gut is actually telling you.

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Doximity Op-Med2026

The day the weight-loss pill arrived, the hard part began

Oral GLP-1s changed the prescription. They didn’t change the work.

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San Antonio MedicineMay 2026

A column in San Antonio Medicine — May 2026

My writing for the Bexar County Medical Society journal (p.32).

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Medium · ILLUMINATIONJul 2026

The fifteen minutes we lost on the way to curing everything

What medicine traded away when the visit got shorter than the story.

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Doximity Op-Med2026

When a $40,000 wellness journey delays the real diagnosis

The cost of chasing wellness without a physician. A cautionary case from the clinic.

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San Antonio MedicineApr 2026

A column in San Antonio Medicine — April 2026

My writing for the Bexar County Medical Society journal (p.24).

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KevinMDApr 2026

The clinical evidence and reality of peptide therapy

Past the hype and the fear — what the data actually supports, from someone who prescribes it.

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Medium · Essay2026

The soul I was searching for was the one I had divided

The personal thread behind Healing the Split. Biology, biography, and the seam between them.

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San Antonio MedicineFeb 2026

A column in San Antonio Medicine — February 2026

My writing for the Bexar County Medical Society journal (p.18).

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KevinMDApr 2026

Make America Healthy Again fails true functional medicine

Slogans don’t treat root cause. What real functional medicine asks that policy doesn’t.

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In Fitness & In HealthApr 2026

I built my best body at 45 — what middle-aged athletes get wrong about metabolism

An IFBB pro and physician on training, muscle, and the metabolism myths that stall people.

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San Antonio Express-NewsFeb 2026

Featured in the San Antonio Express-News

Physician commentary in the city’s daily paper (Feb 28, 2026).

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KevinMDDec 2025

Mind-body connection in chronic disease: why traditional medicine falls short

The essay that became a podcast. Why chronic illness needs the mind treated alongside the body.

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In Fitness & In HealthJun 2026

I’m a longevity physician — 3 overlooked things I do every morning to slow aging

Not biohacks — the unglamorous basics that actually move the needle on healthspan.

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Elephant JournalJun 2026

What our bodies remember about our fathers

Inheritance written in the nervous system. A meditation on what we carry and can heal.

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KevinMDJun 2026

The hidden costs of anabolic steroid side effects

The side effects of anabolic steroids that rarely make the pitch.

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KevinMDMay 2026

What AI in medicine can and cannot do

Where AI earns its place in medicine, and where it does not.

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KevinMDMay 2026

Symptoms with normal labs deserve a better question

Normal labs, real symptoms. The better question to ask.

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KevinMDApr 2026

Is HPA axis dysregulation causing your chronic insomnia?

When chronic insomnia traces back to a dysregulated stress axis.

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KevinMDApr 2026

Why leaving hospital medicine for private practice was worth the risk

Leaving hospital medicine for private practice, and why it was worth it.

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KevinMDFeb 2026

Oral Wegovy: the miracle and the mess of the new GLP-1 pill

The promise and the mess of the first GLP-1 pill.

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KevinMDJan 2026

Agentic AI in medicine: the danger of automating the doctor

The danger of automating the doctor out of the room.

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KevinMDJan 2026

Methamphetamine-induced lung injury: the hidden diagnosis in South Texas

A hidden diagnosis behind unexplained lung injury in South Texas.

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KevinMDJan 2026

Why lifestyle matters more than BPC-157 and semaglutide

Why lifestyle still outperforms the peptides everyone is chasing.

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KevinMDJan 2026

Claude for Healthcare vs. administrative burden: a physician’s review

A physician review of AI against the paperwork that burns doctors out.

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KevinMDJan 2026

The hidden link between circadian rhythm and physician burnout

The hidden link between a broken circadian rhythm and burnout.

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An ongoing series on what “normal” results miss — and how to read the story the numbers leave out.

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Conversations on functional medicine, longevity, and technology — in studio and on the mic.

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Multiple on-air segments translating functional and longevity medicine for a general audience — the same clear, root-cause message, in ninety seconds.

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Healing chronic illness by treating the mind alongside the body

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The AI revolution in holistic health

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A functional medicine doctor is breaking with RFK Jr.

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Why lifestyle beats semaglutide and peptides for metabolic healing

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Oral Wegovy is here, and doctors aren’t ready

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AI could end the administrative nightmare for doctors

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AI agents in healthcare and the risk of automating doctors

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