Yang Sheng ⁽²²⁾

On April 4, 2021, during the Qingming Festival, Dr. Wang Zhuorong, a 27-year-old physician at Tsinghua University Affiliated Changgung Hospital, died of a sudden cerebral accident. Wang was an eight-year-program MD graduate of Peking University Health Science Center who had just started work and was…

In my spare time over the past few days, I finally finished reading Years Gone Like Water, the oral autobiography of the centenarian Zhou Youguang. A hundred-year-old man calmly recounts events he lived through: the series of historical upheavals from the late Qing Dynasty through…

Cancer patients or their families often consult me about whether they should avoid certain foods while taking Chinese medicine and in daily life, and whether they need to take some nutritional supplements. This question is hard to answer in general; today I will write an…

Personally, I do a few things quite well when it comes to anti-aging. I am forty-one this year, but most people who meet me for the first time mistake me for being under thirty; a few years ago I was still often treated as a…

Overweight people are more prone to heart disease, cancer, and diabetes; about 2.3 billion people worldwide are now overweight. The main reason humans are getting fatter is that the structure of the human diet has undergone an irreversible change. In the food chain, the higher…

Nearly every patient or patient's relative who comes to see me says, on meeting me: "So young!" On one hand it is a fact: at the age of freedom from perplexity, though life is half over, for our people who believe doctors grow more experienced…

He was born on May 6, 1900, and died on July 29, 2010, at the age of 110. Yet it is incredible to recall that he had once suffered from tuberculosis; after turning sixty, he underwent three laparotomies and was hospitalized for nearly a year…

Probably for genetic reasons (my mother had gastric ulcer that developed into gastric cancer), my gastrointestinal system has always been poor; peptic ulcers often occur in the mouth, esophagus, stomach and duodenum. This year, due to fatigue, staying up late and careless summer eating—overindulgence in…

People often ask me, since you studied TCM, tell me what I should eat for health preservation. This question annoys me greatly. As far as I know, many people in history who tried to preserve health through herbs died off while taking them; many emperors…

As a chronic-disease patient and a student of medicine, I am aware of my own various potential risks of cancerous transformation. In the future I may die of one of many cancers—liver, lung, gastric, intestinal, prostate—because for years I have been tormented by related chronic…