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Introduction In April 2026, Jelly Roll uploaded a YouTube video that looked nothing like a typical celebrity weight-loss update. No triumphant before-and-after. Instead, he admitted he’d been avoiding the scale out of fear, then turned the camera around to reveal he weighed 276.2 pounds, twelve pounds heavier than where he’d stood just months earlier on … Read more
Introduction When I first tried to run as an adult, I got to about 90 seconds and stopped—hands on my knees, panting, deeply regretting every decision that led me to this path. He wasn’t particularly out of shape. I used to walk regularly. I considered myself quite active. And I couldn’t run for 90 seconds … Read more
What Changed for Me After Last Season’s Unusual Strain In most years, I treat the flu in the same way: a few days feeling unwell, paracetamol, fluids, and a week back to normal. They didn’t follow that script last winter. The fever lasted longer than expected, the cough deepened in my chest, and when I … Read more
Introduction Itchy throat, slight stiffness, slight fatigue. Those were all symptoms I had a few months ago, and my first reaction was to think it was a common cold. I hadn’t even thought about getting tested for Covid until a colleague mentioned that last week I had tested positive with almost identical symptoms. That night … Read more
Why Men (and Women) Are Being Misdiagnosed — And What the Science Actually Shows My friend is one of the people I know the most about health. He runs three times a week, watches his diet, barely drinks and has done everything a man was told in his forties to stay healthy. So when she … Read more
Introduction When my aunt was diagnosed, the first question I asked her oncologist, before doing anything about treatment plans or next steps, was the one everyone secretly wants the answer: Will she be okay? The doctor’s answer lingered in my mind, in a careful and specific way that I didn’t fully understand at the time. … Read more
Introduction There was a time, about two years ago, when depression really affected me, when I wasn’t getting a good night’s sleep. Most nights, I would stay up for an hour, wake up at 4 a.m. for no reason, and consider it stressful, busy, and nothing more important than that. I remember occasionally talking to … Read more
What the Research Actually Shows The honest, evidence-based answer to whether depression can cause miscarriage is reassuring — the large majority of miscarriages are caused by chromosomal factors that have nothing to do with a mother’s mental state, and the research linking depression itself to miscarriage risk is weak and heavily confounded. If you’re asking … Read more
A New Study Says It’s Not Depression Itself — It’s These 6 Symptoms When my father’s memory began to decline, I researched modifiable risk factors for dementia and wrote about what I found at the time. Depression was on the list, which is commonly cited as one of several lifestyle risks. I didn’t think much … Read more
Introduction I’ve seen someone close to me go through depression before, the kind I understand, the name I recognize, and the kind I can figure out. What happened in one particular episode was different. There came a time when he stopped trusting what he could see and hear clearly, when his sense of what was … Read more