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Uncomfortable truths as a physician who gives a damn about women’s health:
We spend way more time preparing women for pregnancy and birth.
We spend far less preparing them for postpartum. Postpartum without adequate support, rest, recovery, and medical care is wrecking mothers.
Too many women put themselves last. They skip their own appointments and ignore symptoms because they’re too busy caring for everyone else. Some don’t even make it to their 6-week postpartum visit.
If we truly care about maternal health, we need to stop treating postpartum like the side chick.
Everyone shows up for the baby.
Someone has to keep showing up for the mother.
Rob Base, one-half of Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, who was best known for the hit “It Takes Two,” has died at 59 from cancer.
“Rob’s music, energy, and legacy helped shape a generation and brought joy to millions around the world. Beyond the stage, he was a loving father, family man, friend, and creative force whose impact will never be forgotten,” reads a statement on his social media account. “Thank you for the music, the memories, and the moments that became the soundtrack to our lives.”
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We have spent years being told it is “just a period problem” while our skin, our weight, our mood, and our energy were all falling apart. Today, the medical world finally admitted you were right.
PCOS is now PMOS.
The fittest young people in America are dying by suicide. Male college cross-country runners have the highest suicide rate of any sport. Suicide deaths among NCAA athletes have doubled over 20 years, and suicide is now their second leading cause of death after accidents.
A major 2024 medical review pulled together 218 studies on 14,170 patients with depression. Walking, jogging, yoga, strength training, and dance all worked. For mild and moderate cases, the effect was about the same as standard antidepressants. Vigorous workouts helped more than light ones.
None of that science is about willpower. Roughly 40 to 50 percent of someone's depression risk is in their genes, based on decades of twin studies in Sweden and the U.S. If a parent or sibling has had depression, your lifetime risk is two to three times higher than average. That piece of the disease is biology you cannot run off.
For severe depression, doctors do not prescribe exercise on its own. The main treatment guidelines in the U.S. and the UK treat exercise as something added on top of medication and therapy. In a 2025 study, researchers added regular supervised workouts to standard treatment for people with severe depression. The result was no extra improvement, because only 22 percent of patients managed to do the workouts. Severe depression destroys the energy needed to exercise in the first place.
The framing that depression "loves a soft body and an idle mind" has the cause and effect backwards. Depression itself drains the energy that exercise requires. The inactivity that results gets blamed for the disease, and the people most affected get shamed for being too sick to fix themselves. Exercise belongs in every depression treatment plan. Moralizing about soft bodies and idle minds does not, and it pushes the people who most need help further away.