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The world’s population is ageing fast. In 2023, 1.1 billion people in the world were aged 60 years or over. That figure is projected to nearly double to 2.1 billion by 2050, representing around one in five people globally. By the late 2060s, the number of persons aged 60 years and over will reach 2.5 billion and surpass…

In my last post, Diet Soda and the Brain, I described how artificial sweeteners like sucralose may affect hunger, memory, and gut-brain signaling. That raised an obvious question: If diet soda isn’t the safe choice we thought, what about regular soda?

Awareness of perinatal and postpartum mental health issues is growing dramatically. Yet there remains no formal reproductive psychiatry certification for medical school residents. The lack of training means that only about 500 reproductive psychiatrists nationwide care for the roughly 800,000 women in the U.S. who experience maternal mental health complications each year.