Everyone gets shown the same picture. A crowd of sperm, tails going, all pointed the same way. Ahead of them one round thing, pale and enormous and entirely still. The story attached to it never varies either: millions set off, one arrives, he breaks through, and she is fertilised. It is a good story. It has a hero and an obstacle and a prize. It is also, in almost every particular, not what happens.

There's something particular about the moment you find out the condition you've been living with was named after a feature it doesn't even reliably have. This week, after 14 years of global collaboration and the voices of more than 22,000 patients and clinicians, that got corrected. PCOS is now PMOS — and the name change is a window into something much bigger than terminology.

Ozempic isn’t “just appetite suppression.” It’s week-long, high-level GLP-1 receptor activation that alters digestion, blood sugar signaling, brain reward pathways—and in women, potentially cycles, fertility, muscle, and mood.
Here’s the biological reality, the trade-offs, and what happens when you stop.

Human fertility isn’t random—it follows seasonal rhythms. Spring, especially March, is when hormones, ovulation, and libido naturally ramp up. Here’s why your body feels different this time of year, and how to work with—or around—it.