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This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you purchase through them, at no extra cost to you. My sleep had been unsteady, so I tried melatonin. I grabbed 10 mg, because that was the dose the shelves seemed to be full of. The nightmares got more frequent and I woke … Read more
This article contains affiliate links. We may earn a small commission if you purchase through them, at no extra cost to you. I lined up three collagen products on the counter and read the labels. One said 10 g per stick pack. Another said 20 g per scoop. The third was a gummy listing a … Read more
Mention HRT to a group of women and the room splits into two camps. One says absolutely not, because of breast cancer. The other says that’s old news, everyone’s on it now. I didn’t know which side to believe, so I started digging into the HRT for perimenopause question myself. Turns out they’re both a … Read more
For months, I didn’t think what I was going through had anything to do with perimenopause. My periods were still regular. There’d been no single dramatic moment to point to and say, this is it. So I told myself I still had time. Looking back, that logic was too simple. None of the changes I’d … Read more
Every morning while my coffee brews, I sit for five minutes and do nothing. It started as a way to drink it before it went cold. At some point, that stretch became the clearest five minutes of my whole day. Every time I see advice like “meditate for 30 minutes” or “start a yoga routine,” … Read more
The other week I caught myself leaning on the horn at a car that hadn’t done anything wrong. Two days later my teenage son said something completely ordinary and I heard it as a challenge. Things I would have let slide a few years ago were landing differently. My first explanation was the easy one: … Read more
Fiber and fermented foods both show up on almost every “fix your gut” list out there. What nobody really explains is that once they’re actually in your body, they’re doing completely different jobs. Last time, I wrote about Gut Health After 40: When Old Habits Stop Working. Ever since, one question has been sitting in … Read more
My gut health after 40 didn’t fall apart overnight. It just started feeling different, little by little. In my 20s and 30s, my digestion was never great, but it never bothered me much either. I ate what I wanted and didn’t think twice about it. Somewhere in my 40s, that changed. More days ended with … Read more