October 7, 2026: Your daily rundown of health and wellness news, in under 5 minutes.

Today's top stories:

TJ Parker's General Medicine raises $120M to build a consumer layer for healthcare, treating care like ecommerce in a $5T market only 4% digitally penetrated
Altro Health raises $7M to help fitness operators and medspas offer peptides, GLP-1s, and hormone therapy in-house, working with 500 businesses already
True Food Kitchen files Chapter 11 and closes 12 restaurants, putting the wellness chain up for sale while 34 locations keep operating

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General Medicine Raises $120M, Altro Health Adds $7M, True Food Files Bankruptcy

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General Medicine Raises $120M, Altro Health Adds $7M, True Food Files Bankruptcy