I’ve been running consistently for five years. An easy 5K most days, 10K on weekends. I’m not chasing pace or distance — I just genuinely like how it feels to run. For most of that time, my knees and joints never really bothered me. But recently, I started noticing a subtle ache in my ankles … Read more
It Started Right After I Turned 47 Not long after my 47th birthday, I started waking up at almost exactly 3 a.m. every night. At first I brushed it off. But the next-day fatigue kept piling up, and I couldn’t ignore it anymore. When something’s off with my body, I tend to go down a … Read more
Somewhere after forty, my body started feeling different. At first I just chalked it up to being tired. But then the sleepless nights piled up, I found myself snapping over nothing, hot flashes came out of nowhere, and my joints ached in a way they never had after a workout. On their own, none of … Read more