For years, the tirzepatide-versus-semaglutide debate has been fought with one hand tied behind everyone’s back. Both drugs had impressive trial results, but no study had ever put them head-to-head in … Continue readingTirzepatide vs. Semaglutide: We Finally Have Head-to-Head Data
We tend to think of aging as something that occurs on a linear, set timeline. Birthdays pass, gray hair shows up, joints get creakier, and there’s not much to do … Continue readingIs Obesity Secretly Aging You Faster?
The list of benefits tied to GLP-1 medications that go beyond weight loss keeps growing, and the latest addition might be the most reassuring one yet for anyone who’s worried … Continue readingMore Weight Loss, Fewer Broken Bones
Semaglutide is one of the most effective obesity medications ever developed, and it’s still teaching scientists new things about how the brain works. A recent Yale study just uncovered a … Continue readingThe Hunger Cells That Switched Sides
If you’re on the GLP-1 medication tirzepatide and someone in your life is still side-eyeing it as “just a weight loss drug,” here’s a study to send them. Researchers just … Continue readingTirzepatide Was Never Just About Weight (A Third Fewer Heart Attacks!)
Starbucks just told its employees that GLP-1s are off the list. It’s part of a disturbing and growing trend of employers dropping GLP coverage. Drugs like Wegovy, Zepbound, and Saxenda … Continue readingWhen Your Treatment Becomes a Line Item
Twenty-seven percentage points. That’s how much more likely an unemployed woman was to land a job within a year and a half of starting a GLP-1, compared to a woman … Continue readingLosing Weight Didn’t Make Them Better Employees… It Made Them Hireable
I’m a poor historian. This should be made perfectly clear up front. But I dabble in Ancestry.com anyway, making a mess of my Family Tree. It’s an error-ridden Gordian knot … Continue readingTaking a peek back at the ancestors
Although I have little to say about it I felt like I should mark this occasion somehow. This week I headed out to Walgreens wearing my COVID-19 vaccine “outfit”… a … Continue readingFauci Ouchie Officially Received
Bats, and orange colored hair, both picked up an undeserved bad reputation in 2020. It remains to be seen if bats had anything at all to do with the coronavirus … Continue readingBATS! Orange you glad I didn’t say Trump?
It’s comforting somehow to know that despite all of our human drama and mess Nature is still out there doing her thing. And her latest thing? Are you ready for … Continue readingNature, girl… you so crazy