Henry VIII, the Brain, and the Obesity
Henry VIII’s weight gain wasn’t just excess—it may have been brain injury. What history and GLP-1 drugs reveal about obesity today.
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Minnesota Starvation Experiment: Food Noise, Science
The Minnesota Starvation Experiment: What Hunger Does to the Human Mind Every few years, someone announces the solution to weight loss. Eat less.Fast longer.Cut carbs.Cut fat.Cut something. Naturally, the advice usually comes with a tone of moral certainty. If you are hungry, the implication goes, you simply lack discipline. However, long before social media, diet influencers,…
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From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution
From Gila Monster to GLP-1 Revolution In 1991, I left Seattle and moved to Phoenix to begin my career as a surgeon. In Seattle, hiking meant pine trees, damp trails, and reliable rain. In Phoenix, hiking meant bottled water and survival. The temperature could sit at 113 degrees at six in the evening. Sometimes the…
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Food Noise Isn’t Hunger — and Why Broccoli Never Fixed the Brain Food noise does not announce itself politely. Instead, it hums in the background, persistent and exhausting. For years, patients tried to describe it. Meanwhile, medicine largely ignored it. Recently, however, GLP-1 receptor agonists forced the conversation into the open. I did not understand…
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Willpower Is B.S.: A Surgeon on Zepbound
Willpower Is B.S.: Food Noise, Healthspan, and What Actually Changed My Life For decades, I started every New Year the same way. In January, I promised myself this would be the year.By February, I tried harder.Every spring, I adjusted the plan.And by summer or fall, the weight crept back. That cycle repeated not because I…
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