Jen Ator

5 days ago | portugues.medscape.com | Jen Ator

O envelhecimento acelerado da população, a pandemia e a popularização dos agonistas de peptídeo semelhante ao glucagon-1 (GLP-1) formam uma tríade que vem colocando os músculos, e as sérias implicações de sua perda, no centro das discussões sobre saúde. No entanto, quando recentemente perguntei à minha mãe de 65 anos se o seu médico já havia conversado com ela sobre treinamento de resistência ou ingestão de proteínas, fiquei surpreso ao ouvir que o assunto nunca surgiu.

1 week ago | webmd.com | Jen Ator

June 19, 2025 — For most of my life, if you asked me if I was fit, I would say yes without hesitation. I spent my childhood playing year-round sports, was on a D1 lacrosse team in college, became a certified trainer, and spent more than a decade as a fitness director for a major women’s magazine. By pretty much any objective measure, my fitness hovered somewhere above average.

1 week ago | menshealth.com | Jen Ator

THERE'S NO “RIGHT” way to react when a doctor tells you that something in your body has fundamentally shifted—and that life, from this point forward, is going to look different. For men newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes (T1D)—an autoimmune condition that affects your body’s ability to make insulin—the physical adjustments are only half the battle.

1 week ago | womenshealthmag.com | Jen Ator

If ovarian cancer is the “silent killer,” endometriosis, which affects roughly 10 percent of women, would be its very loud and torturous cousin. The gynecological inflammatory disease occurs when tissue similar to the uterine lining grows outside the uterus, forming lesions (a.k.a. tissue growths) on anything from the reproductive organs and colon to the inside of the abdomen and the diaphragm.

2 weeks ago | medscape.com | Jen Ator

The exponential rise of our aging population. The pandemic. The explosion of GLP-1s. It’s a trifecta that’s making muscle — and the serious implications of not having enough of it — part of a larger health conversation. Yet when I recently asked my 65-year-old mom whether her doctor had ever talked to her about resistance training or protein intake, I was surprised to hear that the topic wasn’t coming up.