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A 24% higher cholesterol risk in kids who had COVID-19. No symptoms, no warning signs, just a metabolic shift quietly building toward long-term cardiovascular damage. Most families have no idea this is happening.
By Kai Brighton · 3 min read
People who stop Ozempic regain weight four times faster than those who lost through diet alone, with two-thirds of lost pounds returning within a year. The drug is not the problem. The missing exit strategy is. Here is what the data actually says, and what to do about it.
By Kai Brighton · 4 min read
Wearable sleep trackers are a $16 billion industry built on a technology that can reliably count how long you slept but routinely fails to tell you what kind of sleep you got. Researchers now have a clinical term for what happens when you trust the score too much: orthosomnia. The fix is free.
By Maya Okafor · 4 min read
Over 41 million Americans have no commercial insurance coverage for Wegovy, even as obesity costs the US healthcare system $173 billion annually. Insurers will pay for the heart attack but deny the drug shown to reduce cardiovascular events by 20%. This is not a cost-control strategy; it is a deferral of a bill that keeps compounding.
By Kai Brighton · 5 min read
The OTC glucose monitor market hit $370 million in 2024, and healthy people are now strapping biosensors to their arms in the name of wellness. But the research on behavior change in non-diabetics is thin, short-term, and full of caveats. Here is what the evidence actually says, and what to do instead.
By Maya Okafor · 4 min read