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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

I Did Everything Right

What thirty-six years in the clinic taught me about the cost of self-sufficiency

Jul 16, 2026 · 3 min read · 417 claps paywalled #mental-health #health #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Luckiest Patients I Ever Met Had One Thing in Common

It wasn’t genetics. It wasn’t optimism. It was someone who noticed.

Jul 15, 2026 · 4 min read · 436 claps paywalled #psychology #health #medicine

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Best Decision I Ever Made Was Completely Irrational

On following what pulls, and trusting it later

Jul 14, 2026 · 4 min read · 126 claps paywalled #mental-health #self-improvement #life-lessons

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Score I Kept on My Own Patients (And What It Revealed)

The Score I Kept on My Own Patients (And What It Revealed)

Jul 13, 2026 · 2 min read · 266 claps paywalled #mental-health #health #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

What We Store Without Knowing It

Why the memories that last are rarely the ones we tried to save

Jul 12, 2026 · 1 min read · 201 claps paywalled #mental-health #self-improvement #psychology

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Quiet Ones

What thirty-six years in radiation oncology taught me about the patients I worry about most

Jul 11, 2026 · 3 min read · 454 claps paywalled #health #self-improvement #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Wait Is the Hardest Part. Medicine Has a Name for It.

Why waiting depletes you in ways that neither the test nor the result ever will

Jul 10, 2026 · 5 min read · 355 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

You’re Not Tired. You’re Fragmented.

What rest cannot fix

Jul 09, 2026 · 2 min read · 198 claps paywalled #productivity #psychology #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Your Doctor Isn’t Looking at You

The hidden cost of a doctor who never looks up from the screen

Jul 08, 2026 · 3 min read · 463 claps paywalled #health #medicine #art

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Before We Knew How to Stop the Pain

What three men and a single discovery reveal about the cost of needing to be remembered

Jul 07, 2026 · 4 min read · 346 claps paywalled #health #cancer #psychology

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Thought I Never Had at 30

Something shifts before the body does.

Jul 06, 2026 · 4 min read · 316 claps paywalled #psychology #life-lessons #self

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Everyone Saw a Cancer Patient. I Saw Something Else.

“The horse told me twenty feet earlier.”

Jul 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 497 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Men I Worry About Most Look Fine

A radiation oncologist on why reliability and resilience are not the same thing.

Jul 04, 2026 · 5 min read · 316 claps paywalled #mental-health #psychology #health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

What a 400-Year-Old Japanese Garden Understands About Human Life

Kenroku-en holds six qualities that should cancel each other out. It has held them for four centuries.

Jul 03, 2026 · 4 min read · 347 claps paywalled #mental-health #mindfulness #personal-growth

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Nothing Was Wrong. That Was The Problem.

Exhaustion is rarely the diagnosis. It is usually the invoice.

Jul 02, 2026 · 5 min read · 384 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Why Smart People Ignore Advice They Agree With

What happens to the habits that protect your brain when your capacity is already gone?

Jul 01, 2026 · 5 min read · 556 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Wellness Industry Would Have Ruined My Mother-in-Law

She is 92, lives alone in Japan, and has never been to a gym. A physician’s observation.

Jun 30, 2026 · 4 min read · 839 claps paywalled #self-improvement #mental-health #psychology

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

I Have Been Playing the Same Piece for Fifty Years

What Bach taught me about the things we return to

Jun 29, 2026 · 3 min read · 500 claps paywalled #self-improvement #mindfulness #life

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Most Dangerous Changes Feel Like Nothing At All

Italo Calvino once observed that a city reveals itself not in its monuments but in its accumulations — the layers of decision and habit and…

Jun 28, 2026 · 4 min read · 393 claps paywalled #mental-health #self-improvement #health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Hardest Conversation in Medicine Has Nothing to Do With Death

What does an illness do to a person’s sense of time?

Jun 27, 2026 · 4 min read · 663 claps paywalled #health #psychology #life-lessons

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The People Who Disappear

What the happiest, sharpest people in their eighties figured out that the rest of us haven’t

Jun 23, 2026 · 4 min read · 570 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Last Remaining Witness to Your Childhood

Why do the people who remember your beginning become more precious with time?

Jun 22, 2026 · 6 min read · 492 claps paywalled #psychology #mental-health #relationships

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Floor That Officially Did Not Exist

What a hidden KGB room in Tallinn taught me about what we actually carry home

Jun 21, 2026 · 5 min read · 449 claps paywalled #travel #psychology #history

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Three-Day Weekend Observation I Can’t Stop Thinking About

When recovery stops being rest and becomes the structure of life itself.

Jun 20, 2026 · 4 min read · 250 claps paywalled #health #psychology #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The First Sign Your Life Is Costing More Than It Should

When ordinary life requires more recovery than it used to.

Jun 19, 2026 · 4 min read · 164 claps paywalled #health #mental-health #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Recovery Change I Notice Before Strength Starts to Decline

Many people notice declining strength. Recovery often changes first.

Jun 18, 2026 · 4 min read · 338 claps paywalled #health #psychology #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The One Trait I Notice in Patients Who Stay Mentally Flexible Into Their 80s

The patients who age best are often the ones who never stop updating their understanding of the world.

Jun 17, 2026 · 7 min read · 393 claps paywalled #psychology #self-improvement #personal-development

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Why Some Healthy Adults Start Remembering Airports

It may be the moment ordinary places stop fading into the background.

Jun 16, 2026 · 8 min read · 274 claps paywalled #psychology #self-improvement #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Unexpected Advantage I Keep Seeing in Older Adults

A photograph from Japan refuses to stay finished

Jun 15, 2026 · 5 min read · 703 claps paywalled #psychology #aging #life

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Social Habit I Notice in People Who Stay Sharp Longer

The earliest signs of cognitive aging may not involve memory at all

Jun 14, 2026 · 5 min read · 714 claps paywalled #psychology #self-improvement #personal-development

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Sleep Change I Take More Seriously Than Snoring

The subtle shift that often appears before fatigue becomes obvious.

Jun 13, 2026 · 6 min read · 560 claps paywalled #health #aging #sleep

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The First Sign Your Capacity Is Starting to Shrink

Why does everyday life often feel harder long before anything falls apart?

Jun 12, 2026 · 10 min read · 248 claps paywalled #mental-health #stress #brain-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Blood Sugar Habit I Watch Most Closely in Healthy Adults

Most people don’t recognize the pattern until fatigue becomes normal.

Jun 11, 2026 · 6 min read · 394 claps paywalled #health #nutrition #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Conversation Pattern I Notice Before Cognitive Decline

The earliest changes are often quieter, stranger, and far more emotionally recognizable than most families expect.

Jun 10, 2026 · 7 min read · 204 claps paywalled #psychology #mental-health #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The First Conversation Change I Notice Before Cognitive Decline

Your Brain May Reveal Early Cognitive Strain During Ordinary Conversation

Jun 09, 2026 · 9 min read · 553 claps paywalled #psychology #mental-health #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Why We Trust Information We Know We Should Question

Michael Crichton described it years ago. I think modern life runs on it now.

Jun 08, 2026 · 7 min read · 564 claps paywalled #mental-health #psychology #artificial-intelligence

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Older Michelangelo Became, the Less He Believed in Perfection

His final decades were less about genius and more about exhaustion, meaning, and unfinished lives.

Jun 07, 2026 · 8 min read · 825 claps paywalled #health #mental-health #aging

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The First Sign of Brain Aging Is Often Not Memory Loss

In the clinic, I often notice subtler cognitive changes years before dementia ever appears

Jun 06, 2026 · 9 min read · 800 claps paywalled #health #mental-health #aging

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The KGB Floor Above the Hotel Lobby Changed How I See Modern Life

What Estonia, Finland, and Sweden taught me about memory, surveillance, and survival.

Jun 05, 2026 · 5 min read · 364 claps paywalled #travel #history #psychology

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Why Sleeping Too Much May Be a Warning Sign, Not Recovery

A major new Nature study found that both short sleep and long sleep may accelerate biological aging across the body.

Jun 04, 2026 · 7 min read · 530 claps paywalled #health #sleep #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Why Many Healthy Adults Begin Moving More Carefully Years Before Decline

Most physical decline begins quietly, through small adaptations people barely notice at first.

Jun 03, 2026 · 5 min read · 715 claps paywalled #health #psychology #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Healthy Eating Debate I’m Starting to Care Less About

Many healthy people now eat as though one imperfect meal might quietly disqualify them from aging well.

Jun 02, 2026 · 8 min read · 477 claps paywalled #mental-health #nutrition #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Your Brain Was Never Meant to Stay Inside Itself All Day

A rainy morning in Seattle made me realize how mentally crowded modern life has become

May 31, 2026 · 6 min read · 651 claps paywalled #mental-health #psychology #self-improvement

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

5 Cancer Myths That Still Annoy Me as an Oncologist

The beliefs we inherited about cancer are often older than the science itself.

May 28, 2026 · 6 min read · 591 claps paywalled #cancer #health #wellness

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

Your Brain Was Never Designed for This Many Choices

Why endless optimization quietly exhausts the modern mind

May 27, 2026 · 8 min read · 198 claps paywalled #mental-health #psychology #productivity

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Walking Pattern I Notice Years Before Health Starts to Slip

The body often reveals hidden strain long before disease becomes obvious.

May 26, 2026 · 5 min read · 164 claps paywalled #health #aging #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Older I Get, the Less Impressed I Am by Optimization

What years of illness quietly taught me about success, attention, and being alive

May 20, 2026 · 7 min read · 0 claps paywalled #self-improvement #psychology #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

The Longevity Myth I’m Beginning to Question

After years in medicine, I’m starting to wonder whether modern wellness culture has quietly confused health with control.

May 18, 2026 · 6 min read · 1,163 claps paywalled #health #longevity #mental-health

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MI Michael Hunter, MD · Live Stronger, Live Longer

5 Medical Myths That Refuse to Die and What Science Says Instead

From hydration hype to detox scams, these common health beliefs sound harmless — until you see what science really says.

Aug 11, 2025 · 6 min read · 778 claps paywalled #medical-myths #health-myths-debunked #evidence-based-health

MI Michael Hunter, MD · BeingWell

What Ananda Lewis Taught Us About Cancer, Choice, and Compassion

The former MTV host’s passing invites a deeper reflection on trust, fear, and what it means to make the best decision we can — in a world…

Jun 13, 2025 · 5 min read · 345 claps paywalled #breast-cancer #cancer-prevention #health-stories