The Difference Between Depression and Just Being Sad
Not every bad day is depression and not every hard week means you need medication. Sometimes life is just difficult, you feel like shit about it, and that’s…
May 21, 2025
Sleep, Stress, and Your Brain
You can’t think your way out of being sleep-deprived, you can’t positive-mindset your way through chronic stress, and you can’t meditate away what happens to a brain that’s…
May 18, 2025
Why You so Mad, Bro?
Men’s ability to be analytical is a superpower in a lot of ways. It’s what makes you good at solving problems at work, breaking down situations, making decisions…
May 11, 2025
Weight Management
The weight management conversation got rewritten in the last three years and most people still haven’t caught up. The drugs that did the rewriting are GLP-1 agonists. Semaglutide,…
May 9, 2025
Mood Disorders Treatment
“Mood disorder” is a category, not a diagnosis. Under that umbrella sit a half dozen actually-different illnesses: regular old depression, bipolar I, bipolar II, cyclothymia, premenstrual dysphoric disorder,…
May 7, 2025
Why “Rock Bottom” Is Bullshit
Rock bottom is bullshit. The idea that addicts and depressed people have to lose the marriage, lose the job, lose the house, get the DUI, wake up in…
May 6, 2025
Ketamine
Ketamine has been around since 1962, doing its boring day job as an anesthetic in operating rooms and battlefield medic kits, and the depression piece is the much…
May 1, 2025
The Real Reason You Keep Self-Sabotaging
People sabotage themselves constantly and they can’t tell you why. Get within sight of something working out and they blow it up. Six months sober, the marriage is…
Apr 30, 2025
IV Immune Support
The IV drip clinic is the chiropractor of the 2020s. Strip-mall storefront, soft lighting, a recliner, a nurse in scrubs, and a thousand-dollar-a-month subscription to feel like you’re…
Apr 29, 2025
Melatonin
Melatonin is one of the most misunderstood things sold in a drugstore, and the misunderstanding got there with help from the supplement industry, the pediatrician’s office, and your…
Apr 26, 2025