"Diet Truth for Middle-Aged Men: What Actually Works After 40"
I am fifty-nine years old. I run a small supplement shop in Seoul. Most of the men who walk into my store are somewhere between forty-five and seventy, and most of them are carrying ten to thirty pounds they did not have at forty. Most middle-aged men do not need a new diet. They need to stop lying to themselves about the old one. Some of them are on Wegovy. Some are thinking about it. Most are not, and never will be. Here is what I have learned watching them, talking to them, and watching my own body change over twenty years: the diet question for middle-aged men is not really about Wegovy. It is about four things that decide almost everything, and that almost nobody talks about honestly. If you are on a GLP-1 medication, these four things decide whether the weight you lose stays off, and whether the body underneath the smaller number is healthy or hollow. If you are not on medication, these same four things decide whether you slowly gain two pounds a year for the next dec...