If you’ve driven through the Village or spent a morning at La Jolla Shores, you already know: San Diego living is built around the active, outdoor lifestyle. However, even in the land of eternal sunshine, your body needs a specific kind of light to recover.

This is what researchers call “orthosomnia”—a growing phenomenon where wearable sleep tracking causes clinical-grade anxiety,

We see it every day: a patient walks into our La Jolla or Mission Hills office with a list of peptides they saw on a podcast or a hormone protocol their friend is on, ready to start immediately. Sometimes, my professional recommendation is that we hold off.

If you’re a woman in your 40s (or even late 30s) experiencing perimenopause weight gain and brain fog, you aren’t losing your mind—and you’re not alone.

When you lose weight rapidly, your body often raids its muscle stores for energy. You might look smaller in your clothes, but your metabolism is actually slowing down, leading to that “skinny-fat” look and the inevitable weight-loss plateau.

Whether you’re training for the Rock ‘n’ Roll Half Marathon, surfing at Windansea, or just trying to stay “beach-ready” year-round, there is one health metric that matters more than the number on your scale: Your Lean Muscle Mass.