Craft MD

Stop optimizing. Start stacking. 🧬
A new study followed 60,000 adults for 8 years and asked the question we should be asking more often: what is the LEAST we can do to meaningfully shift life expectancy?
The answer is almost embarrassingly small:
➕ 5 more minutes of sleep per day
➕ 2 more minutes of moderate movement per day
➕ ½ more serving of vegetables per day
= about one additional year of life
That's it. Seven minutes a day plus half a handful of vegetables. For a full year.
The hidden upgrade is the math underneath the formula. For people with poor baseline habits, getting the same year of life through sleep alone would require 25 extra minutes — five times the work — for the same result. The behaviors are synergistic. They compound on each other in a way that any single heroic intervention doesn't.
This is the message we give patients constantly. They walk in convinced they need to overhaul their life. Pick the perfect diet. Train for an Ironman. Sleep nine hours. The honest reality is that you don't need a heroic intervention. You need three modest ones, running in parallel, every day.
How I'd actually do it:
🛏️ SLEEP — bed 5 minutes earlier tonight. Or 5 fewer minutes of doom-scrolling tomorrow morning. Phone out of the bedroom buys you the 5 immediately.
🚶 MOVE — take the stairs twice today instead of the elevator. Two minutes of marching in place while your coffee brews. A brisk walk to the mailbox instead of a casual one.
🥦 EAT — half a serving more vegetables. About 40g — a small handful. Spinach into the eggs. Carrots on the side at lunch. Pre-cut peppers in the fridge for the late-afternoon snack.
Repeat. Tomorrow. And the day after.
Compound interest works on bodies too.
Citation: Koemel, Stamatakis et al., eClinicalMedicine (The Lancet), 2026. n=60,000. 8-year follow-up.
— Dr. Randy Craft, MD, MBA · double board-certified, Harvard-trained · .randy.craft
This is general medical education from Dr. Randy Craft, MD, MBA — not medical advice for your specific situation, and not a substitute for an in-person consultation with a board-certified physician.

The wax appointment is the new midlife crisis.
After fifteen years of mandatory laser, body hair is back. Beards. Chest hair. The rug. Even back hair. Scruff bios. Growlr profiles. Hinge. The signal changed.
And we're starting to see patients ask if regrowth is possible.
It usually isn't.
Laser is mostly permanent. The aesthetic you chase at 28 is the body you live in at 48. The trend will move. Your decision won't.
When laser still wins.

01 · Ingrowns. Functional, not aesthetic.

02 · Folliculitis-prone areas.

03 · Spots no cultural trend will ever bring back. (You know which.)
Before you book the next session, three questions.

Have you tried grooming first.

Why are you removing it. (Honestly.)

Would you defend this in five years.
A surgeon's job is sometimes to talk you out of permanent changes you'll regret. We'd rather have you in the chair for the right reason than the trending one.
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— Dr. Craft

CraftMD Aesthetics · Wellness · Phoenix · Scottsdale

Everyone said Ozempic kills your s*x life. The 2026 data says the opposite.
This month, the Endocrine Society published findings most of social media missed.
Semaglutide and liraglutide didn't tank testosterone in men with metabolic dysfunction. They raised it. S***m quality improved. Sexual function matched testosterone replacement therapy on its own.
Why. Excess fat tissue converts testosterone to estrogen. Visceral fat suppresses the signal between brain and te**es. The medication didn't hurt the system. The weight was the problem.
Who benefits.

01 · Best fit. Metabolic dysfunction. Obesity. Low-T tied to weight.

02 · Be careful. Already lean. Normal T. Chasing a vanity dose.

03 · Not for. Anyone using GLP-1 to mask an eating disorder.
This isn't a s*x drug. It's a metabolic medication that, in the right patient, removes a brake on a system that was already trying to work.
The new question isn't whether Ozempic will ruin your s*x life. It's whether your weight already has.
FLOW by Dr. Craft is our physician-directed men's wellness lane. We screen. We baseline. We monitor.