Four separate clinical and population health studies have been published in peer reviewed journals. Chinese researchers published a longevity and diet study in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition analyzing 5203 people aged over 80.^[1] In September 2026, researchers published a study in The Annals of Family Medicine examining the early implementation of Medicare's new peer support reimbursement codes.^[2] Medicare introduced principal illness navigation peer support reimbursement codes in 2024. This created the first nationwide reimbursement mechanism specifically for peer-delivered support services under Medicare.^[3] A separate analysis used data from 4,315 adults in the 2015 to 2018 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. That study found that high-sensitivity C-reactive protein levels nearly doubled between stage 0 and stage 1 of cardiovascular-kidney-metabolic syndrome.^[4]