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What We Learned from Tracking Symptoms

We’ve written elsewhere about why we are fans of tracking your cycles and what you can learn from it. For those of us that are on the pill, have an IUD, have had an ablation or have had a hysterectomy, cycle tracking isn’t an option. However, tracking symptoms is an…

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What You Learn From Tracking Your Menstrual Cycle​

Or why we wish we’d known about tracking your menstrual cycle sooner! We started this project out of frustration that our healthcare providers didn’t acknowledge our new symptoms in our early 40s as possibly tied to hormonal changes. However, we now know that we shouldered some of the blame. When…

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Exercise Helps Mood Changes and Much More

Exercise can lessen mood changes and many of the other things women experience in the years leading up to menopause. Things like disrupted sleep, cognition challenges (aka brain fog), and weight gain. Dr. Richardson underscores that exercise is important during all phases of life, but particularly when women are faced…

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Modest Midlife Changes Make a Difference for Heart Health

Two quotes from an article about making changes in midlife: “So, does prevention work? Women who don’t smoke, walk a half-hour a day, aren’t overweight, and eat a prudent diet—defined in the study as greater than average fruit, vegetable, nut, whole grain, and bean consumption—had a 92% lower risk of…

Almonds to prevent osteoporosis

Almonds — Good for Bone Health

In this article, Dr. Michael Greger from nutritionfacts.org talks about almonds and the benefit they provide for improved bone health. He explains that bone is living and it is constantly in a state of growth and at the same time being depleted. The rate of depletion increases beginning when hormones…

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Awake at night? Trouble sleeping? Try tracking.