Medical
Clinically reviewed writing on metabolic health and what the evidence supports.
Your fat cells: why the number is set young, and why size is what changes
By your early twenties the number of fat cells you carry is largely fixed. Weight gain and loss after that mostly change how full they are. That one fact explains a lot, including why weight lost so often comes back.
Same scales, different bodies: what men and women don't know about how the other gains weight
At the same weight and height, a woman typically carries around 10 percentage points more body fat than a man, and stores it somewhere safer. Then, in midlife, both bodies change the rules.
More than 1 in 5 men and young Australians don't see a GP. What that changes about care.
More than one in five Australian men don't see a GP in any given year. With no established GP relationship (or any particular desire for one), a telehealth avenue is a frictionless one.
Popular but wrong: "just eat less and move more"
The most-repeated piece of weight advice in English is technically correct and practically misleading. The body actively defends its weight. Here's what the science says instead.
Top 5 things diet, exercise, sleep, and stress actually do for weight
The standard advice treats diet, exercise, sleep, and stress as roughly equal levers. The evidence says they aren't. Knowing what each lever actually delivers makes the conversation honest.
What the system gets wrong about weight
Two-thirds of Australian adults live with overweight or obesity. The standard advice has not worked. The failing isn't yours; it's structural. The science has moved on, the clinical conversation hasn't.