Healthy Aging + General Wellness

Whooping cough is back, and it’s hitting Australia harder than anyone expected. Case numbers are breaking records that stood for decades. Behind those numbers, a family lost their baby to the illness last year. The same concerning trends are appearing in communities around the world. This isn’t another outbreak statistic. The disease has returned in...

Catherine Vercuiel

Catherine Vercuiel

Wellness Journalist

Your liver isn’t lounging around doing nothing all day. This powerhouse organ performs over 500 functions daily. It’s your personal detox center, energy storage facility, and chemical processing plant rolled into one biological machine. Your liver filters toxins, breaks down fats, and produces clotting factors that help your blood thicken and stop bleeding when you’re injured. When you...

Catherine Vercuiel

Catherine Vercuiel

Wellness Journalist

You’ve probably seen those incredible Ozempic (semaglutide) before-and-after photos flooding your social media feeds. People are losing weight fast with serious transformations. But there’s something nobody’s talking about in those posts. While the pounds are melting off their bodies, something else is happening to their faces. And it’s not what you’d expect. Doctors are calling it “Ozempic mouth,” and it’s aging people’s...

Catherine Vercuiel

Catherine Vercuiel

Wellness Journalist