All articles
Everything published so far, newest first. Every clinical claim links to the guideline, review or trial it came from.
Every article here is sourced. The two references used most often are the US Preventive Services Task Force and the Cochrane Library.
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Strength Training and How Long You Live: The Dose Is Smaller Than You Think
A meta-analysis found any resistance training cut all-cause mortality 15%, with the maximum benefit at about 60 minutes a week. More was not better. Combined with cardio, the reduction reached 40%.
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Antidepressants and Sexual Side Effects: The Numbers Nobody Quotes
Asked systematically, 84.5% of men on antidepressants report sexual dysfunction. Left to volunteer it, 42.5% do. Three management strategies have randomised evidence.
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Tirzepatide vs Semaglutide: What the Head-to-Head Trial Found
751 adults, 72 weeks, randomised directly against each other. Tirzepatide produced 20.2% weight loss against semaglutide’s 13.7%, and men lost about 6% less than women on both.
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GLP-1 Side Effects: The Real Rates, and Which Ones Actually Matter
Nausea affects 44% of people on semaglutide, not the handful the advertising implies. Here are the label rates, which effects are merely unpleasant, and the two that mean stop and call someone.
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Compounded Semaglutide: What You Are Actually Buying
The shortage ended and the legal basis for compounding copies expired in 2025. The FDA has logged 990 adverse event reports for compounded semaglutide, and says they are underreported.
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Colorectal Screening Starts at 45 Now, Not 50
The start age moved in 2021 because incidence in adults aged 40 to 49 rose almost 15%. There are six approved ways to screen, and the best one is the one you will actually…
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Blood Pressure: The Highest-Value Number in Men’s Health
It is the only Grade A screen that applies to every adult from 18, it causes no symptoms until it causes a stroke, and the trial that tested treating it harder was stopped early…
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Do GLP-1s Cost You Muscle? What the Body Composition Data Show
A quarter to a third of the weight lost is lean tissue, proportionate to any large weight loss, not selective muscle wasting. But 5.6 kg is still 5.6 kg, and it does not come…
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Hair Transplants: What to Understand Before You Book
A transplant moves hair. It does not create it, and it does not stop the loss continuing around it, which is why the men with the worst results are usually the ones who stopped…
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The Shedding Phase: Why Hair Treatment Makes Things Worse First
Men start minoxidil, shed heavily around month two or three, conclude it is destroying their hair, and quit, right before it starts working. Here is what is actually happening.