I dwell on every single little interaction (Picture: Sybilla Hart) Driving around the winding roads near my home in East Anglia recently, I was startled when I was beeped by a fellow driver. Presumably I’d annoyed them in some way. While this is the kind of routine occurrence that most people can shrug off, as […]
10 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
People are getting ‘HoleTox’ injections to loosen up in the bedroom
The treatment involves Botox being injected to relax the sphincter muscle (Picture: Getty/Metro) Botox has a whole host of uses beyond smoothing out wrinkles, helping with everything from excessive sweating to jaw clenching. Now, it’s also being employed in more innovate (and intimate) ways, with so-called ‘HoleTox’ serving to improve people’s sex lives and combat […]
Both are unpleasant, but they’re not the same (Picture: Getty Images/Maskot) Migraines and headaches are both unpleasant — but while symptoms of the two can overlap, they’re not interchangeable terms. In a LloydsPharmacy Online Doctor survey, 65% of people said they can’t tell the difference between a headache and a migraine, potentially meaning they get […]
Jamie was diagnosed with a hereditary eye condition (Picture: Jamie Ward) As Jamie Ward admired the blues and oranges of Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, he felt overcome with emotion. But the 61-year-old wasn’t just moved by seeing this world-famous painting in real-life. Just six months earlier, he’d been diagnosed with a hereditary eye condition, and he […]
8 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Woman who ‘died’ says she ‘had to share’ what she saw in the afterlife
In 2006, Anita Moorjani had been living with terminal lymphoma for four years. She described those years as being ‘riddled with the fear of the disease, fear of dying’, and fear of cancer treatments. In short, life was looking pretty bleak. One day, her condition rapidly deteriorated, and she was admitted to the hospital in […]
Mere hours after giving birth, Danika started chemotherapy (Picture: Kennedy News & Media) When Danika Hilmer arrived at the hospital to give birth, she thought she knew what to expect. With two other children, she knew the drill: have a baby, spend a few hours in hospital, then head home with her newborn son swaddled […]
7 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
Common habit is literally rotting your brain — here’s what you can do
We all know that sleep is good for you. It’s recommended that we get around 7-9 hours a night, but this does differ from person to person. However, it turns out bad sleep does not just leave you feeling groggy but it could also be causing you to rapidly age. A new study from the […]
Andrew (right) was fit and healthy, so I was sure he could survive (Picture: Milica Davies) ‘I am really sorry because you are a young man and this is a life limiting condition.’ After months of waiting for answers, the neurologist delivered them with crushing clarity. It was October 2024, and my husband Andrew had […]
7 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
I gained weight because I was comfortable in my relationship — or so I thought
Hannah didn’t feel like herself after her weight gain (Picture: Kennedy News and Media) When Hannah Richards noticed she’d put on weight in 2023, she put it down to her comfortable lifestyle with her boyfriend, Nathan Baker. The ‘happy and content’ pair had been enjoying date nights and cheeky takeaways together since meeting the year […]
6 Oct, 2025 | Admin | No Comments
‘I can walk 10,000 steps’ – but do you really need to? Simple debunks the step count myth
The Simple Life app is helping customers loose weight – and easily too! (Picture: Metro/Simple App) Metro journalists select and curate the products that feature on our site. If you make a purchase via links on this page we will earn commission – learn more For years we have been advised to walk a minimum […]