Women are being confronted by lotions and serums and light masks that promise to rejuvenate their faces and necks, dietary supplements claiming to do everything from boost moods to ease hot flashes and gadgets promising to help with symptoms.
With a gut-wrenching wail that rippled from her body, Amber Walcker joined about a dozen screaming people in West Seattle who let their frustrations float away over the Puget Sound.
With male sexual medicine patients, there is a huge amount of DIY medicine going on. Self-guided TRT and abuse of all sorts of pharmaceuticals has moved out of the body-building world into the general population.
During her first year of college, Elisabeth Bradley was inspired to try weightlifting after she followed a woman tracking her fitness transformation on social media, one barbell at a time.
What I’ve come to realize is that anyone or anything can write the stories, especially AI. But not everyone can live the stories, and it is in the living that metrics and algorithms and data banks fail the test.
A study found an average 3.5% increase every year in self-injuries over 24 years documented in hospital and doctor’s visits, with higher rates among girls than boys.
