Hormones & Perimenopause
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Why I Stopped Fighting My Body in Midlife (And What Changed When I Did)
There is a kind of education that only comes from your body demanding your full attention. It’s not one you go looking for, but the kind that finds you. Mine found me at 35 years old, on a CT scan ordered for something else entirely. An abdominal scan, looking for something unremarkable, happened to catch…
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What Nobody Tells You About Perimenopause (Including When It Starts)
The transition starts earlier than your doctor likely mentioned, looks different than the brochures suggest, and you are not imagining it. I was in my early-forties when my left shoulder seized up out of nowhere. No injury, not even from sleeping wrong. It just stopped working like it always had. Around this time, my cycles…