Wei Xuan Tan

Good friends tell you when you’re nuts. AI so often just tells you, “You’re so right. Wow. That sounds so hard.”

The benefits of exercise seem too broad for any one therapy to mimic

GLP-1 hormone may one day be regarded as the peptide that accidentally decoded the body, the mind, and basis of human health

Anything that treats obesity ought to automatically reduce that cancer risk

What AI is not so good at telling us is when we’re asking the wrong questions in the first place.

That I was born in the capital of the world’s richest country is one of the greatest strokes of luck in my life—a pure accident of timing and gametes. There is no way to pay back this good fortune, and wallowing in guilt over it would do nothing, either. The quiet miracle of charity and global aid is that the uneven distribution of global wealth cr... See more

A majority of people prescribed GLP-1 drugs stop using it within the first year. Maybe it’s the side effects. Maybe they miss drinking and don’t appreciate the nausea. Maybe they can’t afford the drugs. Maybe they stop after they hit their target weight. Maybe people just don’t like injectables.