Dr. Pam Wilson

06/18/2026

When your tasks live in a dozen places — sticky notes, scraps of paper, your phone — you end up making the same decisions over and over. What to do now. What to put off. What you never finished. That re-deciding has a name: decision fatigue.
A system changes that. When your habits are stacked into routines, and those routines sit inside one framework, you are not deciding the same things again and again. You spend less time organizing and more time actually being productive.
Where do your tasks and reminders live right now?

Read this week's Insight: https://drpamwilson.substack.com/p/edd7ac67-941a-4ebd-b9e1-6144bfbbe269

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

06/15/2026

I have always liked to be organized and have a plan. Years ago, I had sticky notes everywhere and little lists for my projects, goals, and tasks. I'd read one, decide to do it later, and start something else first. By the afternoon I'd go back through the lists and realize I never finished the first thing I started. So I'd work through all of it again, sorting what was done from what still had to get done.
I was spending more time organizing than actually being organized and productive. For years, that was just how my days went.
Tomorrow I'm sharing what finally changed it for me — and the difference between habits, routines, and systems that made it stick.

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

06/11/2026

Most people picture weight loss as a simple calculation: eat less than your body burns, and the weight will come off. On paper, it works.
But your body is not a calculator. When you start eating less, your metabolism notices the drop. It does not know you are doing this on purpose. As far as it can tell, food has become scarce, and its job is to keep you alive. So it slows down and burns through your fat stores more carefully to make them last. That is why the same calorie cut that worked at first stops working a few weeks in.
Have you ever hit that wall, where the weight loss just stalls even though nothing changed?
Read this week's Insight:https://drpamwilson.substack.com/p/775fc385-c469-43a3-9809-bba0ffb674b8

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

06/08/2026

I see this all the time. A patient comes in frustrated, showing me the app on their phone where they have logged every calorie. They have calculated how much to eat, and they are eating less, but the weight still is not coming off.
They are relieved when I tell them that in my office, we do not count calories. Weight loss is not as simple as calories in and calories out.
What most people do not realize is that when you eat less, your body burns less too. The gap you were counting on to lose weight gets smaller, and the pounds stop coming off. That is what I will walk through in tomorrow’s newsletter

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

06/04/2026

Patients come to me all the time resigned to getting the heart disease or the cognitive decline they watched in a parent or grandparent.
The science of genetics tells a different story now.
Genes are not a predictor of health as we age. They are a list of possibilities. What decides whether those possibilities become disease is something else entirely.
This week’s newsletter walks you through what that something else is — and why what ran in your family does not need to run through you.

Read it here: https://drpamwilson.substack.com/p/fea15e8e-64b0-44aa-94bf-71696e39763a

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

06/01/2026

Patients come to me all the time and tell me they are simply resigned to getting the chronic illness that runs in their family. Heart disease. Diabetes. Alzheimer’s. High blood pressure.
Forty years ago, family history was treated as a forecast. The science of genetics tells a different story now.
Family history tells you what you inherited. It does not decide what happens next. Your daily life does.
This week’s newsletter walks you through exactly how that works — and why what ran in your family does not need to run through you. I'll share more tomorrow.

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

05/28/2026

Yesterday I shared why I stopped doing the old-fashioned sit-up. The pull lands on your lower back, not your abs.
Here is what I do instead.
Lie on your back with your knees bent. Tuck your chin and lift your head off the floor. Then continue to roll your shoulders off the floor, and feel the muscles in your abs doing the work.
That is the whole movement. Same target, without loading your lower spine.
What have you been doing for your abs?

Read this week's Insight: https://drpamwilson.substack.com/p/3fc94f42-34e9-4cd8-be1e-175da70f82a7

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

05/27/2026

The sit-up was never really an ab exercise.
When you sit up, the muscle doing most of the work is the psoas — a hip flexor that attaches directly to the bones of your lower back. So every time you pull your torso off the floor, you are pulling hard on your lower spine.
It does not matter whether your knees are straight, anchored, or bent. The pull on the spine is the same.
Over 20 years ago the literature was already clear that this repeated load and compression on the low back can cause damage and injury over time.
There is a better way to train those muscles. I will share it tomorrow.

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/

05/25/2026

05/21/2026

Most doctors check fasting glucose and hemoglobin A1C. Both are important. Neither one catches insulin resistance early.
Fasting insulin does. It’s the test that shows how hard your body is working behind the scenes to keep blood sugar in range — and it shifts years before glucose ever rises.
The lab reference range for fasting insulin is 2.6 to 24.9. The clinically healthy range is 2 to 5. That’s a wide gap, and most patients have never been told it exists.
What would change for you if you knew where you actually stood?

This week's Insight: https://drpamwilson.substack.com/p/94734b69-0eec-4725-8b31-243606a303af

PS: Are you tired of conflicting advice about health and longevity? These are the questions I consistently hear from patients and readers. You can find my answers to the TOP 15 FAQs here: https://drpamwilson.com/15-faqs-optin/