Chin Hairs, Breakouts And A Thicker Middle
Coarse hairs on your chin, spots along your jaw, and a waist that has thickened. In your forties these often share one cause. Here is how insulin nudges your hormones, and what helps.
Read morePerimenopause
The experiences women report through their forties, what is happening underneath each one, and why so many of them arrive together.
Seven Signs Your Progesterone Is Dropping
Lying awake at eleven, awake again at four, on edge the week before your period. These can all trace back to one hormone. Here are the signs, and what is yours to work with.
Read moreTen Foods For A Stressful Week
Cortisol is useful in small doses and hard on you when it stays high. Food cannot take the stress away, but it can support how you handle it. Here are ten that help.
Read moreWhy The Middle Changes After Forty
Same food, same walks, and the waistband still got tighter. It is not effort. Here is what changes in the middle after forty, and what helps it.
Read moreWhy Your Joints Ache In Your Forties
Stiff first steps out of bed, sore knees on the stairs, and nothing to show for it on an X-ray. Falling estrogen can be part of the reason. Here is what helps.
Read moreEating Cholesterol Is Not The Same Thing
One word covers two different things, and the mix-up cost a generation of women their breakfast. Here is what your body actually builds out of it.
Read moreIt Can Start In Your Thirties
Your periods are regular, you are nowhere near fifty, and something has changed anyway. That combination is more common than almost anyone tells you.
Read moreWhy You Are Still Tired
You sleep eight hours and wake up flat. Five things sit underneath that, and only one of them is about how long you were in bed. Here is what to look at first.
Read moreThe Symptoms No One Warned You About
Itching ears. A burning tongue. Words that go missing mid-sentence. The odd list of things women report in their forties, and why so many of them turn out to be connected.
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