
Men don’t usually walk into a psychiatrist’s office and say they’re depressed. They walk in because their wife told them to, or because they’re drinking more than they…
Aug 20, 2025
PTSD is what happens when your brain encodes a memory wrong. Most memories get filed away, lose their sharp edges, and when you pull them back out a…
Jul 19, 2025
The public conversation about anxiety treatment and the clinical reality have drifted about as far apart as it’s possible for two conversations on the same topic to drift.…
Jul 7, 2025
Depression ≠ sadness. Sadness has a thing it’s about. Depression doesn’t, it just follows you around like a Dementor sucking the light out of the world. The texts…
Jun 19, 2025
Addiction is what happens when the brain’s reward wiring gets hijacked. There’s a circuit that’s supposed to push you toward food, sex, novelty, your kid’s face, the things…
May 31, 2025
Finasteride, dutasteride, minoxidil, PRP, microneedling, transplants. The math of male pattern hair loss, the meds that bend it, and the things sold to you that mostly do not.
May 29, 2025
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 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
High-dose ketamine done in a clinic is a different animal from the troches you take at home. Same molecule, different dose, different route, and a completely different experience.…
Apr 22, 2025
Men’s sexual health is one of those topics where the medicine is mostly straightforward and the conversation is mostly impossible. The biology is well-mapped, the drugs work, the…
Apr 4, 2025