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The NIH Weighed Every Meal to a Tenth of a Gram. Four AI Calorie Apps Undercounted by up to 345.
In a locked NIH metabolic kitchen where every ingredient was weighed to 0.1 grams, MyFitnessPal, Lose It!, CalAI, and Appediet each read a plate and undercounted it by a quarter to a third, missing the fat most of all.
Metabolic & WeightThe GLP-1s That Barely Move the Scale Don't Cause Hair Loss, and That's the Clue Everyone Missed
Women on semaglutide shed hair at about twice the rate of men, and the weakest GLP-1s show almost no signal, which points the cause away from the follicle and straight at how fast the weight comes off.
Metabolic & WeightA Gut Microbe Was Feeding Ammonia to Sick Livers. A Michigan Peptide Cut Off the Supply in Monkeys.
The compound reversed severe fatty liver in monkeys by starving one ammonia-making gut bacterium. It also comes from a company its lead inventor founded, and no human has taken it for this.
Metabolic & WeightThe Mice Ate More and Got Leaner. The Switch Was One Amino Acid, Turned Down.
USC mice on a low-protein, methionine-tuned diet ate as many calories as the junk-food group and still lost fat, while their own bodies pumped out more GLP-1. The scientist behind it also owns the company selling longevity diets.
Metabolic & WeightBoth Groups Lost the Same Seven Kilos. Only the Calorie Counters Had to White-Knuckle It.
In an 18-month Adelaide trial, fasting and daily calorie-cutting stripped off the same seven kilos, but for the counters part of that loss ran on constant conscious restraint the fasters' scores never showed.
Metabolic & WeightSame Calories, Different Wiring: Why Fructose Leaves Your Hunger Neurons Running
Glucose flips off the brain cells that drive hunger. Fructose barely nudges them, and the corn-syrup blend in your soda quiets them even better, which is exactly why it's so easy to keep drinking.
Metabolic & WeightThe Belly Fat You Gain After 40 Comes From a Cell That Barely Existed in Your Twenties
Transplant old fat stem cells into a young mouse and they keep churning out fat; young ones in an old mouse stay quiet. In mice, the fat-making program travels with the cell, not the body around it.
Metabolic & WeightThe Obesity 'Revolution' Everyone's Promising Comes From People Who'd Cash In On It
A new commentary says the GLP-1 era is just the prelude to a bigger obesity "revolution." The authors have direct financial stakes in what comes next, and the celebrated new pill loses less weight than the shot.
Metabolic & WeightThe Oral GLP-1 Race Just Got a Third Serious Contender, and Its Curve Was Still Climbing
Structure Therapeutics' once-daily oral GLP-1 aleniglipron hit 11.3 percent placebo-adjusted weight loss at 36 weeks and kept climbing in the open label. The catch: oral semaglutide and orforglipron already cleared the FDA.
Drugs & FDAThe FDA Approved a Better Penile Implant. For Most Men, ED Is the Heart Warning Them First.
The FDA approved Coloplast's Titan Prime inflatable penile prosthesis on June 3, 2026. For the men whose vasculature is past saving, it is a meaningful device upgrade. For most men with new ED, the more useful conversation is what the small arteries are failing to do years before the coronaries noti