Medicine
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 weeks agoIs a new weight-loss drug making people fall out of love?
Retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug, may cause emotional flattening and affect relationships by dampening the brain's reward system.
Heather, a 40-year-old woman from the US, describes this tension as leaving her feeling "empty, sad, and temporarily empowered, but always craving more." When engaging in casual sex, she regularly tried to turn off her emotions, which felt like "cutting off a part" of herself. Her description of the negative side of hookup culture is consistent with a little-researched condition called postcoital dysphoria (PCD), where people report negative emotions like tearfulness, sadness, or irritability after sex.