“‘I was throwing up and retching a lot and couldn’t keep anything down,’ one man reported. ‘I was constantly hungry all the time and had an unstoppable craving for chicken kormas and poppadams. Even in the early hours of the morning, I would get up and prepare myself one,’ another subject said. In this paper and in subsequent research, the symptom list has seemed to include almost everything: diarrhea, constipation, leg cramps, a sore throat, depression, insomnia, weight gain, weight loss, tiredness, toothaches, sore gums.” The Atlantic: She Got Pregnant. His Body Changed Too. (This happened to me before my wife got pregnant. In fact, it was even before we started dating.)

+ A day in the life of a flavor inventor.