Jennifer Dillman

You've probably seen it scroll by: "The human body has an organ that was classified in 1953. They just declassified it. You have 79 organs. That's what medical school teaches. That's what every anatomy textbook prints. That's what every doctor believes. You have 80." It's a great hook. It's also mostly wrong — but the real story behind the viral organ claim is honestly more interesting than the myth. The Viral Organ Claim: What's Real, and What's the Mesentery In 2016, a surgeon named Dr. J....

If you’ve been following this series, you now understand something most people don’t: that GLP-1 medications affect far more than appetite, that dopamine is far more than a pleasure chemical, and that suppressing a system is not the same as healing one. So what does healing actually look like? Whether you’re currently on a GLP-1, transitioning off, or simply searching for a path that doesn’t require you to trade your spark for a smaller number on the scale—this post is for you. Principle One:...

We’ve spent three weeks building a picture of how GLP-1 medications affect not just appetite, but your brain’s entire reward and motivation system. We’ve talked about who’s most vulnerable. And if you’ve been reading along, you might be thinking: “Okay, but I’ll just deal with that when I stop.” This is the week we talk about the stopping part. Because that’s where the real reckoning happens. The Quiet Assumption Everyone Makes Most people who start GLP-1 medications assume—reasonably—that...