Roughly 11% of American women suffer from endometriosis.

Teddi Mellencamp is getting real about her health. The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum shared that her doctor refused to prescribe her GLP-1s for weight loss amid her ongoing stage 4 cancer...

There's a name for the blah some GLP-1 users are feeling. A loss of interest in foods they once enjoyed or diminished motivation to take part in activities they used to love, like sports or gardening. It's called “Ozempic personality” or anhedonia. As with “Ozempic face” and “Ozempic butt” before it, “Ozempic personality” started not as an official diagnosis but as an encapsulation of the experiences people have shared online. According to anecdotes but not the scientific literature, some users have experienced a kind of emotional flattening. Read More

What if there were a “natural Ozempic”? A substance with all the proven benefits of GLP-1-based drugs, but without their contraindications. It would be a panacea — one that some brands and social media influencers are trying to attribute to a supplement called berberine. They’re capitalizing on the fact that this supplement has shown some metabolic benefits, but it’s not Ozempic, it doesn’t work like Ozempic, and it doesn’t serve the same purpose.

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Emilie Blichfeldt’s debut 2025 body horror film The Ugly Stepsister features a scene that is particularly perturbing, due to its historical veracity. In it, the film’s main character Elvira eats a tapeworm egg in order to lose weight. The parasite, which inhabits certain animals and can infect a person who eats raw or under-cooked meat, adheres to the intestine and grows by feeding on its host’s meals. We’re talking about a flat, whitish worm that can measure six and a half to 39 feet, depending on whether it comes from a pig or a cow. Of course, what happens next is right out of a horror movie script.

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