The idea that in the age of Ozempic, "hotness" is a requirement for finding a job is something my colleague Amanda Hoover wrote about recently, and pointed to an unsettling data point: "The Society for Human Resource Management surveyed about 1,000 human resource professionals in 2023 and found that about a quarter said obese employees are more likely to be perceived as unmotivated and lazy than slimmer workers." The positive effects on men's jobs from starting GLP-1s were much smaller, and the data on unpartnered men were too small to analyze
They're turning to the flourishing gray market, where sales of imported bulk packs and alternative medications highlight the scale of pent-up demand and raise tricky questions about potential health risks.In her upmarket New Delhi cosmetology and metabolic treatment clinic, Instagram-famous Dr
Direct and indirect healthcare costs related to obesity are more than $1.7 trillion annually
Photoaging typically manifests as dryness, roughness, deepening wrinkles, skin laxity, vascular changes, and hyperpigmentation in sun-exposed areas (Zouboulis and Hoenig, 2019)
Untreated, BH4 deficiency with high phenylalanine can lead to developmental delays, muscle dysfunction, cognitive impairment, and sometimes epilepsy.[ref] Rare mutations in different genes in the BH4 pathway can cause different genetic conditions