Hormones, Truth, and the Signal the Body Keeps
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal This week, a number of my patients told me they were going to hear Gabor Maté speak while he was in Calgary.Almost all of them asked me the same question:“What do you think of his work?”My answer was simple. He’s paying attention to something medicine ignored for […]
The Gap Between Stimulus and Response
When something hits you — an email, a conversation, a moment of stress — your system doesn’t think first. It reacts.The fast pathway (your survival response) Why this matters more than we thinkThis is also why I’m intentional about something that seems simple: I don’t live in my email.Because every “ping,” every notification, every glance […]
The Energy You’re Trying to Fix Isn’t the Problem
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal Mitochondria are having a moment right now. They’re being discussed across longevity medicine, metabolic health, and even mainstream wellness — and for good reason. Mitochondrial dysfunction is now recognized as one of the central features of aging, sitting at the intersection of insulin resistance, cardiovascular […]
The Cholesterol Conversation Is Changing
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFP Sublime Life | The JournalFor decades, cholesterol advice sounded fairly simple. Lower LDL.Raise HDL.Take a statin if needed. But the science of cardiovascular health — and longevity — has become much more nuanced.Today we understand that what matters most isn’t just cholesterol levels. It’s the number of damaging particles […]
The Missing Mineral in the Aging Brain
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal I’ve been watching the science over the past year as it evolves around the mineral lithium and brain health. It caught my attention for a few reasons. First, lithium is not just a medication — it’s actually a naturally occurring trace mineral that exists in […]
Sleep Is a Safety Signal
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal Why the nervous system must feel safe before the body can truly sleep.I hear it every week. “I’m exhausted. But I can’t shut off.”They fall asleep. Then they wake at 3:17 a.m.Their heart isn’t racing wildly.But it’s alert.Their brain is online. They’re tired.But not safe […]
Is It Anxiety… or Insulin Resistance?
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal Most people think insulin resistance is about weight. It’s not.It’s about signal distortion. Insulin is a communication hormone.It tells your cells: energy is here. When that signal becomes blunted, the body compensates.And compensation is where symptoms begin. How Insulin Resistance Shows Up in the Mind […]
Your Liver Doesn’t Need a Detox
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal This week, a patient asked me how to detox their liver.And I realized we’ve been taught to cleanse the body instead of understand it.So my real question was: what signals is their system sending them?Because the liver rarely needs a detox. It needs support. SUBLIME […]
Why Longevity Is a Systems Problem (Not a Supplement Problem)
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal Most people come to longevity looking for a lever.A supplement.A protocol.A single test that will tell them what to fix. But longevity doesn’t work that way. Healthspan isn’t determined by one system in isolation — it emerges from how multiple systems talk to each other […]
The Art of Not Pushing – How Cortisol Quietly Shapes Everything
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal There’s a moment I see again and again — in clinic, in conversation, and honestly, in myself. It’s the moment when everything is technically fine…but your body is quietly asking for less.Less output.Less optimization.Less pushing through. And yet, we keep going. What’s often happening beneath […]