Robert Lufkin MD
@robertlufkinmd
Jeanne Calment died at 122. No one has lived longer. That's not a record waiting to be broken -- it's the biological ceiling we've been hitting for a century. (1/4)
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"My toilet saved my life." That is the sentence Throne Sciences CEO Scott Hickle wants Americans to be able to say a decade from now. (1/7)
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Elders vs old people: When we stopped thinking of them as elders and instead just think of them as old people, the world lost a source of great wisdom and experience.
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He's 91 - Won't Wait 20 Years for an Ethics Board As a medical school professor, I've spent decades watching promising therapies stall in regulatory limbo. Then I sat down with J...
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The FDA just approved a longevity drug -- and almost nobody noticed. Anktiva (an IL-15 superagonist) was greenlit for bladder cancer. But the scientist behind it, Patrick Soon-Shi...
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Insulin Resistance Can Start Reversing in 48 Hours As a medical school professor, I teach that most people think insulin resistance takes months or years to fix. The data say otherwise. Within roughly 48 hours of removing ultra-processed food, the metabolic machinery starts to move: (1/6)
It's Never Too Late to Start As a medical school professor, I used to tell patients that the best time to start exercising was 20 years ago. The science says otherwise. (1/6)
On this Memorial Day weekend, remembering the fallen heroes of the 20th Maine Infantry who fought alongside my great-grandfather, Captain Augustus N. Lufkin, defending Little Round Top at Gettysburg in 1863.
As a medical school professor, I am watching a paradox play out in real time. We do not have a health information gap. We have an infobesity epidemic. 10,000 podcasts. 100 hot takes. Zero signal. (1/5)
The FDA just approved a longevity drug -- and almost nobody noticed. Anktiva (an IL-15 superagonist) was greenlit for bladder cancer. But the scientist behind it, Patrick Soon-Shiong, calls it the most important longevity drug of the decade. (1/5)
One number on your CBC may predict 10-year mortality. NHANES, 31,178 adults: severe lymphopenia + high RDW + high CRP → 62% 10-yr mortality in the worst tier. Under 4% in the healthiest. All three already on your CBC. youtube.com/shorts/ogmLU...
At 65, your mitochondrial DNA stops doubling every 12 years and starts doubling every 3-4. That's not aging. That's a cliff. 🎙 youtu.be/ObnVTTYdMdU Dr. Lufkin × John Cramer PhD on Health Longevity Secrets. #Longevity #Mitochondria
John Cramer, PhD, is 91 years old. He told me on Health Longevity Secrets: "In 30 years I'll be 121 — possibly the oldest person on the planet." He's not joking. He's the lab rat in his own mitochondrial experiment. (1/9)
What happens in 5 days without ultra-processed food? 2026 AJM study: top quartile UPF intake = 47% higher heart attack/stroke risk. The reset starts within hours. Full episode: youtu.be/lpTHNiMj18E
STREAM TIME! Day 18 of the Mental Health May Marathon! twitch.tv/naiadnae .°˖✧ #vtuber #vstreamer #vsky #envtuber ✧˖°.
This is what Marco Rubio decided to do with his life: "AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to HIV Assistance: A once-robust HIV treatment and prevention system, credited with saving hundreds of thousands of lives, has begun to crumble..." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...
No. Not for those reasons. More for shoes or sexy underwear. But you do have to know how to keep that chest flat and knees tucked. And how to put them knees on the bed frame. That oochie wally wally dont need nothing else to break a 🥷 down with hun. Ain’t no lack of gentlemen callers.
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The Trump administration wants to wash its hands of the "Sistine Chapel of the New Deal". It doesn't have to be this way. Our full convo with @socialsecurityworks.org's Alex Lawson on the Wilbur J. Cohen building, protecting Social Security data, and more: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKcK...
Bodo/Glimt are a Champions League miracle! 😲 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐠𝐮𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 - watch/listen 👇 🍎: tinyurl.com/2pydxyvx ✳️: tinyurl.com/jww73mtz 📺: tinyurl.com/yey5hmzu
My MVP: The Open Door in Gloucester. They serve 2 million meals to low-income residents here in the Sixth — 30% of which are children. Local pantries need our support now more than ever. We need fighters in Congress who will fund SNAP benefits and fight for working families.
😅 Keira & Sarah are here to say the quiet part out loud — and keep it funny (because otherwise we’d cry). @flareusa.bsky.social @fsfp.bsky.social @refusefascism.bsky.social @removalcoalition.bsky.social @saveamericamvmt.bsky.social @50501movement.bsky.social
Genuinely what was the thought process behind making it to where you have to stop shooting to recharge your shield
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Rev Sharpton was quite clear when I asked him about Mamdani's "100 years ago" comment last Sunday.
The Trump Administration wants an anything goes approach to AI. California isn’t having it. My latest for Civil Liberties in 60 Seconds.
.@AlexaBliss_WWE came ready with the HEAT 🔥 Thanks to @RealNickAldis, we got Alexa Bliss going one-on-one with @Jade_Cargill RIGHT NOW on SmackDown!!
"These times are chaotic and unprecedented." Chaotic = yes. Unprecedented = no. History suggests humanity has stood at this intersection before, many times. 1940s = New Deal 1860s = Civil War 1770s = Revolutionary War Times like these ALWAYS feel like the first time, because for US... they are.
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Trump’s budget makes it clear his priority is NOT American families. CAP's @bbkogan.bsky.social breaks it down:
Pam Bondi's fake briefing on Epstein was shameful. She's clearly trying to get out of her real hearing that will be transcribed and UNDER OATH. We won't participate in these games, and we look forward to her deposition—which is required by our bipartisan subpoena and the law.
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Who do you think should be leading the discussion on the regulation of AI chatbots - Parliament or the Pope? #StoptheBots
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Sen. Ossoff: He promised to bring prices down on day one. Instead, Prices are soaring. The price of gas 33%. Groceries, rent, healthcare, and the power bill hit new all-time highs last month. While you pay more, Trump wants your tax dollars for what many are calling the Epstein Memorial Ballroom.
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Donald Trump wants sweaty glistening near naked men wrestling in the hot June air at the White House for his birthday. Is this America 250 or the inaugural Pride Month USA Gay Games? 🏳️🌈 🌈 🤔
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