Overmatter
Natasha Loder, Anne PhilippiWhere medicine, politics and tech collide
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The obesity epidemic has peaked in rich countries. But not for the reasons you think.
Obesity is falling—in a few countries at least. And it is nothing to do with weight-loss drugs. What is going on? For decades governments have wrung their hands as obesity has risen relentlessly. All sorts of policies were tried: taxes, lab...
Ebola is back again. Here are the numbers.
Updated June 10th
This is an evolving Substack page and has been updated daily for a number of weeks.
Ebola numbers have been rising at an alarming rate since it was first discovered.
This outbreak has the hallmarks of a really problem...
Fear and doping in Las Vegas-inside the Enhanced Games
ABU DHABI, LAS VEGAS
When I first heard about the Enhanced Games back in 2024 my reaction was that it was a tremendously stupid idea. Over time, after listening to the arguments, it seemed less so. The idea of running a trial of performanc...
American boomers were drinking for two-and covering the signs of a generation that quietly stopped drinking.
Ai generated: Perplexity, Mountain made of bottles of alcohol
Spend any time at a work social or a school event and it is hard not to notice that people are not drinking as much. It may even be entirely alcohol free. Something has changed...
When doctors can’t help, the internet will. That’s a problem.
At around 2am, when you are awake for the third night running and the world around you is resting peacefully, a particular kind of fear and hopelessness can take hold. For yet others, it is the gym sessions that have stopped working, and th...
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