Nutrigenomics
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal I’ve always been able to drink coffee at almost any hour of the day. Morning coffee. Afternoon coffee. Dinner coffee. Sometimes even an espresso after dinner. To the horror of many of my friends, I can still go to bed and sleep just fine. For […]
The Story We’ve Been Told About Aging May Be Wrong
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal For years, many of us have been handed the same narrative about aging.After a certain birthday, the goal becomes maintenance. Hold on to your muscle. Hold on to your memory. Hold on to your independence. Slow the decline if you can.The message is subtle but […]
The Body Is Smarter Than We Think
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFP Sublime Life | The Journal For years, the story seemed simple. Free radicals cause damage. Damage causes aging. Therefore, antioxidants must slow aging. It sounded logical. In fact, an entire generation of supplements was built around that idea. The stronger the antioxidant, the better. The more antioxidants, the healthier […]
We’ve Started Treating Basic Health Like a Biohack
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal Something interesting has happened in wellness culture. We’ve become so obsessed with optimization that we’ve started treating basic human health like it’s a secret discovery. Sunlight became a protocol.Walking became a trend.Protein became revolutionary.Sleep became “sleep hacking.”Breathing became a masterclass.Going outside became “grounding.” And listen […]
Let It Flow
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFP Sublime Life | The Journal There’s a reason stress changes digestion. You can feel it almost immediately. You eat quickly.Your stomach tightens.You feel bloated after meals that normally wouldn’t bother you.Your cravings change.Your energy drops.Your body feels inflamed, puffy, reactive. And yet most people still think digestion begins in […]
The Signals Are Not the Problem
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal For years, medicine was built to look for disease once it became measurable. A diagnosis.An abnormal scan.A lab value outside range.A crisis that could no longer be ignored. But many people know something feels off long before that moment arrives. They feel it as: Historically, […]
Peptides: Promise, Hype & Buyer Beware
By Dr. Kathryn Dundas, MD, CCFPSublime Life | The Journal Peptides are having a moment. They are discussed in longevity circles, hormone medicine, injury recovery, metabolic health, aesthetics, and performance optimization. Depending on who you ask, they are either the future of medicine or the latest wellness craze. The truth, as usual, lives somewhere in […]
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 […]