Why your hormones hate late nights
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 [...]
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06, 2025
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05, 2025
A quicker, easier alternative to adrenal vein sampling
If you had to get a test, would you prefer to spend all afternoon in a hospital, or be home in time for lunch? Elisabeth Ng, endocrinologist and PhD candidate in the Endocrine Hypertension [...]
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03, 2025
Are pituitary tumours genetic?
Apart from your long-lost evil twin, you’re the only person in the world who has your unique combination of genes. Genetic variation is a good thing – without it, we’d be the pugs of [...]
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02, 2025
Excess cortisol and its impact on long-term health
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, [...]
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01, 2025
Moving from pediatric to adult care: not as scary as it sounds
Remember when you turned 18 and you instantly knew how to juggle responsibilities, manage your time, and navigate bureaucracies without feeling overwhelmed or making any silly mistakes? I don’t either. But that’s how the [...]
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01, 2025
Cortisol, stress and chronic disease: what’s the connection?
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 [...]
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12, 2024
Don’t buy testosterone online from strangers on the internet
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, [...]
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10, 2024
The Penis Is A Pointer to Men’s Overall Health
If eyes are the window to the soul, then the penis is the measuring stick of men’s heath. While many men think a dodgy todger is a natural part of ageing, penis health is [...]
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10, 2024
How obesity affects your sperm and fertility
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 [...]
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08, 2024
Does PCOS cause heart disease? Dr Jillian Tay explains.
Like many health conditions affecting women and people with ovaries, PCOS had historically been misconstrued as a problem with the lady parts. Polycystic Ovary Syndrome remains under-diagnosed, its mechanisms under-researched and its impact under-estimated. [...]