Every so often, Dr. Laurence Levine fields a phone call from a circumcised man desperate to restore his penis to its original glory. Levine, a board-certified urologic surgeon in Chicago, said he does a “fair amount of penile cosmetic surgery,” but he doesn’t replace foreskin lost to circumcision. “A man should be happy … with … Read more
Talk about a bowel movement. From chia-studded puddings to lentil-loaded lunches, wellness influencers are flooding social media with high-fiber feasts they say improve digestion and ward off weight gain. But can too much fiber backfire? Maura Donovan, a registered dietician and medical education specialist of sports nutrition at Thorne, has the low-down on “fiber maxxing” … Read more
The specter of lawsuits like that one, which successfully halted distribution of the film, have helped fuel the now common practice in Hollywood of acquiring “life rights,” said Jorge L. Contreras, a transactional law scholar and one of the article’s authors. With such deals, Contreras said, there is no actual legal guarantee of exclusive access … Read more
Space agencies, huge corporations, and media-savvy billionaires — ahem, Elon Musk — have all promised that building colonies on the surface of Mars “will fix just about everything” and give humanity a chance “to try out something completely new and leave all the bad stuff behind,” Kelly and Zach Weinersmith write in their new book, … Read more