Your periods are all over the place, you’ve struggled with weight, you’re intimidated by your own toe hair, but whenever you mention PCOS to anyone they assume you’re just worried about lumpy ovaries. Researchers [...]
It’s not hard to be a medical expert – just answer ‘we need more research’ to any question and you’ll be correct 90% of the time. This is especially true of conditions that affect [...]
Obesity isn’t about being a good or bad person. It’s about biology, and how your body metabolises energy. Endocrinologists have long known this, but medicines like Mounjaro, Ozempic, Wegovy, Saxenda and Trulicity have mainstreamed [...]
It’s important to be balanced in all areas of life, but most of all on a molecular level. Our hormones, vitamins, minerals, fluids and temperature are all constantly changing, but they also have to [...]
Despite what your cat, your boss, your baby or your algorithm might say, 1am is not a good time to be awake. People aren’t possums, and while sitting in a tree at midnight eating [...]
In medicine, too much or too little of something is usually a problem. Excess hormones, excess knees, hospital excess - all of these things can be a genuine pain in the butt. For ages, [...]
If you don’t already have enough to worry about, have you ever thought about how stress is really bad for you? We usually think of stress as a mental thing, but the feeling of [...]
It feels hypocritical to warn you about buying testosterone online when testosterone replacement therapy has made such a huge difference in my life. The benefit for me was instant – better energy, better mood, [...]
It turns out that when it comes to fertility, size does matter – but maybe not in the way we all assumed. Every day it feels like there’s some new advice for would-be dads [...]
While other journalists might be on the hunt for a cushy job, Ania Stepien is on a different mission—she’s searching for a Cushing's job. Cushing’s disease is a rare condition that can take years [...]
