Michael S. Fenster, MD

“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” – J.R.R. Tolkien (The Hobbit) Understanding Food As Information (FAI) requires …

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates One aspect of understanding Food as Information (FAI) that fundamentally moves it beyond …

“It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.”— William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V The new guidelines often, if not precisely, speak about “highly …

Over the past year, initiatives like MAHA and renewed discussions around the Dietary Guidelines for Americans have signaled something important: a growing recognition that our dominant approach to food and …

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”— Leo Tolstoy After a year of much ballyhoo, we kick off the 2026 Study Spotlight with a …

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”  —  Marcus Aurelius. Over the last several decades, chronic diseases like Type II …

“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”  — Yogi Berra Almost everyone these days has heard about intermittent fasting and fasting …

“One of the useful things about age is realizing conventional wisdom is often simply inertia with a candy coating of conformity.”  — Anna Quindlen No doubt you have heard that …

“Small disconnected facts, if you take note of them, have a way of becoming connected.” — Walker Percy Multiple sclerosis is a “chronic autoimmune disease of the central nervous system, …

“Laughter is brightest in the place where the food is.” – Irish Proverb Or to phrase it more simply: “Good food, good mood.” But is it really just about the …