For a long time, I avoided talking openly about my metabolic plateau. Like many adults in their mid-forties who had tried seemingly everything, I had resigned myself to the idea that the stubborn weight around my midsection, the persistent afternoon…
I spent 24 years as an operating room nurse and developed the occupational hazard that affects a significant proportion of nursing professionals: type 2 diabetes. It arrived quietly at 51, managed well with metformin and lifestyle changes, and I had…
The mathematics of prostate health are not optimistic: approximately 50% of men develop benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) symptoms by middle age, rising to 80% by age 70. I turned 54 this year, and the statistics had been announcing their arrival…