What if preparing for motherhood began long before we decided it was time to try for a baby, or possibly even long before we knew for sure if we wanted a baby? For many women such as myself, the idea of preparing for pregnancy doesn’t become real until there's a...

If you’re a woman between 35 and 45 and your health is bugging you, then you’ve likely been told that nearly every symptom you’re experiencing has a simple answer: “You’re in perimenopause.“ Cycles changing? Perimenopause. Energy crashing? Perimenopause. Anxiety worse...

If you’re a health-conscious woman in your thirties or forties, there’s a good chance you’ve spent years trying to eat well, especially if you care about maintaining a healthy weight, staying in shape, aging well, and reducing your risk of chronic disease. A lot of...

We’re living in an interesting time in which women have more freedom than ever to decide what we want our lives to look like, we’re living much longer lives, and many of us are reaching the end of our reproductive years without having children. For some women, being...

To be a modern woman in her thirties and forties with health or fertility challenges isn't an easy place to exist. On the one hand, we’re still relatively young by modern standards, but on the other, we’re facing a real biological clock and reproductive limitations...

For the better part of two decades, I thought I knew a lot about nutrition. And in some ways, I did. I knew which vegetables were high in certain vitamins and minerals, I knew how to read an ingredient label, I knew why I should buy organic when I could afford it, and...

We can spend years jumping from one general piece of advice we find online to another, from one doctor and supplement protocol to another, and from one restrictive diet to another, all while making minimal, if any, progress in our overall health. In today’s internet...

We live in a world with a long history of pathologizing women's bodies. And this culture offers us endless messages about what it means to be healthy and, more importantly, what our symptoms might mean about our health. In many ways, these messages are useful in...

If you're anything like past versions of myself, then you've likely spent years perfecting the art of controlled eating, perhaps while simultaneously navigating a myriad of symptoms that you're trying to resolve through said controlled eating. And for women like...

What if we all grew up recognizing that our bodies were different from boys' and men's in some fundamental ways -- ways that didn't make us less than, but did require that we learn about ourselves and care for ourselves differently, beginning in our menarche? What...