Health and Lifestyle

Sometime in your early forties, something shifts. The muscle you built in your twenties and thirties becomes harder to maintain. Recovery takes longer. The composition of your body changes, even when your weight stays the same. You are not imagining it. This is sarcopenia: the age-related, progressive loss of skeletal muscle mass and function that begins silently in your thirties and accelerates with each decade thereafter. For men and women over 40, building strength is no l

Most people know what it feels like to be mentally off. Not sick enough to call it a breakdown, but not well enough to feel like yourself. You are tired but cannot sleep properly. You are distracted even when nothing is wrong. You feel the weight of everything but cannot quite name what is heavy. This space, between "I'm fine" and "I need help," is where most people quietly struggle. For a long time there were not many options. You either pushed through it, or you waited unti

Landing at NAIA at three in the morning. A body that thinks it is still on Dubai time. A mind that has already begun rehearsing Monday. Dr. Jan Dipasupil, medical director of Jan Medical Group, on ExoMind, the technology that has quietly become part of how Manila’s most demanding minds reset. She landed at NAIA at three in the morning last Sunday, off a Dubai flight that followed a week in Sydney. Her body clock was somewhere over the Indian Ocean. Six meetings on Monday. A b

The face ages differently from the body, and it shows. Volume shifts downward, skin loses the structural scaffolding of collagen and elastin, and what once felt firm begins to yield. For decades, the primary solutions were either surgical (facelifts, blepharoplasty) or superficial (topical products that do little beyond the epidermal layer). Neither extreme felt right for most people. That gap has narrowed considerably. Non-invasive energy-based devices, particularly those us

There is a particular frustration familiar to anyone who has trained consistently, maintained a structured diet, and achieved meaningful weight loss, yet still finds pockets of fat and lax skin that will not respond. This is not a failure of effort. It is a failure of biology. The Renewed Body Programme at Jan Medical Group addresses exactly this gap. Using BTL-certified radiofrequency technology in a physician-directed 8-week protocol, the programme targets subcutaneous fat

The promise is familiar: a single product, a few clicks, discreet delivery to your door. No waiting room, no awkward consultation, no prescription required. For people struggling with weight, who may have already faced dismissal or judgement in medical settings, buying weight loss medicines online can feel like a solution that puts control back in their hands. But the transaction carries a set of risks that are rarely disclosed on the product page. These are not abstract regu

BGC has become one of the most health-conscious districts in Metro Manila. Its residents and workers are more likely than most to track their macros, attend functional fitness classes, and research treatment options before booking them. This same population is also increasingly sceptical of clinics that promise dramatic results from a single machine session, which has forced the local market to evolve. Body sculpting in BGC has evolved accordingly. The most credible providers

A Note Before You Begin Weight loss injections have become one of the most searched health topics of the past three years, and for good reason. GLP-1 receptor agonists such as semaglutide and tirzepatide have delivered clinical results that were once considered impossible without surgery: 15 to 22 percent total body weight loss in randomised controlled trials, with meaningful improvements in blood sugar, blood pressure, and cardiovascular risk markers. The surge in demand has

Pregnancy changes the body in profound ways. Among the most persistent, and least discussed, is what happens to the skin of the abdomen after delivery. For many women, particularly after significant weight gain during pregnancy or multiple pregnancies, the stomach skin does not simply spring back once the baby is born and the weight comes off. What remains is a softness, a looseness, a crepe-like quality to the skin that no amount of core exercise or clean eating seems to ful

Across obesity medicine clinics worldwide, a pattern keeps repeating itself. A patient starts tirzepatide or semaglutide, loses weight in the first few months, and then either plateaus earlier than expected, loses disproportionate amounts of muscle alongside fat, or regains weight rapidly once the medication is paused. They come back frustrated, wondering why the medication "worked for others but not for them." In almost every case, the medication is not the problem. The prog

There is a particular kind of Manila beauty conversation that has been ongoing, mostly in whispers, for the last decade. It is the conversation about the celebrity who appears on a magazine cover and looks twenty-eight when she is forty-two, and the polite agreement, in the absence of any honest disclosure, to attribute the result to good genes, good lighting, and good water. On Tuesday, Anne Curtis-Smith did something unusual. She told us what she actually does. At the BTL M

You were losing steadily. The appetite suppression was working, the scale was moving, and the results felt almost effortless compared to everything you had tried before. Then, somewhere around month four or five, it stopped. The number on the scale has not changed in three weeks. Maybe four. You are still injecting on schedule, you have not changed your diet dramatically, and you are starting to wonder: has tirzepatide stopped working for me? It is one of the most common ques

Every January, every summer, and every time a wedding or reunion appears on the calendar, the same question resurfaces: how fast can I lose this weight? It is a reasonable question, and it is one most physicians have heard hundreds of times. The problem is that it is the wrong question. The right question is not how fast you can lose weight. It is how fast you should, and what you stand to lose if you push beyond what your body is designed to handle. Weight loss that happens

You have been consistent. The medication is working. The scale is moving. And then, on a Tuesday night after a brutal workday, you find yourself in your room at 11 PM, not hungry, but eating. Again. This is one of the most frustrating experiences in medical weight management: making genuine metabolic progress while emotional eating quietly undoes it in moments of stress. If this sounds like you, there is something important to understand. You have not failed your programme. Y

You have tried the calorie counting. The elimination diets. The intermittent fasting windows. You did everything right, at least on paper, and yet the weight came back. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone, and you are not weak. What most popular diets will never tell you is that the body is not a passive calculator. It is a dynamic biological system shaped by millions of years of evolution to prevent starvation. When you reduce your food intake, your body fights back.

If you have booked, or are about to book, an Emsculpt NEO consultation at Jan Medical Group in BGC and want to know exactly what happens from the moment you walk in, this guide is written for you. It walks through the consultation, the preparation, the session itself, the recovery window, and the results timeline, so you can arrive prepared and leave with realistic expectations. Emsculpt NEO has become one of the most searched body contouring options in BGC and Taguig, and th

You are eating carefully. You are moving regularly. You have tried cutting carbohydrates, reducing portions, and following every reasonable dietary principle you know. And the scale has barely moved. The weight that has appeared, particularly around your abdomen, has not responded to genuine effort the way you expected it would. If this is your experience, you are not lazy, not undisciplined, and not failing to try hard enough. What you may be facing is insulin resistance, an

This week, The Lancet renamed the condition formerly known as Polycystic Ovary Syndrome. Dr. Jan Dipasupil, medical director of Jan Medical Group, on what changed, why one in eight women in the Philippines should care, and the multisystem treatment that has always been the actual answer. On Tuesday, the world’s most respected medical journal made one of the most consequential nomenclature changes in modern endocrinology. After a four-year global consensus process involving 14

An Introductory Note Starting a weight loss journey is one of the most health-positive decisions a person can make. In 2026, it is also a decision that carries real risk if approached without the right information. The Philippine market for weight loss solutions has expanded rapidly in the past two years, and the quality of what is on offer varies widely. Not every product on a shelf is what it claims to be. Not every clinic offering injectable medications is supervising thei

A Note for the Cautious Patient You have probably seen the stories. Hospitalisations overseas linked to compounded doses. Deaths reported in patients who self-injected without medical supervision. Friends and colleagues exchanging warnings in group chats. If you have been considering tirzepatide and the headlines have made you pause, that pause is the right instinct. It is also what separates patients who use this medication safely from those who get hurt by it. What the repo