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Honest, first-person companions to the conditions, treatments, and choices explored across our library.

GLP-1s changed who chooses bariatric surgery — and how. Patients describe picking the operation anyway, using medications as pr...

Tirzepatide is the first medication approved for obstructive sleep apnea. What patients report about the months on CPAP in betw...

Adolescent GLP-1 treatment is new territory for families. What parents and teens report about the decision, the first months, a...

A guide to our Weight Loss & Obesity shelf — fifteen anthologies of first-person testimony, from GLP-1 medications and bari...

June 27, 2026 Obesity Rates by the Numbers

Obesity in numbers: how prevalence has tripled since 1975, where it stands worldwide and in the US, and why it is tracked so cl...

June 27, 2026 GLP-1 Medications by the Numbers

How fast GLP-1 medications went mainstream, in data: how many people use them, what for, the awareness gap, and the scale of th...

The GLP-1 story is shifting from weekly injections to a daily pill. What that change really means — the appeal, the same side e...

Beyond the before-and-after photos: the nausea, the quiet food noise, the muscle-loss worry, the cost, the plateau, and what ha...