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The years before menopause start earlier, last longer and feel stranger than most women are told. What is actually happening, and what helps
8 min readBloating after healthy meals is common and usually not dangerous. The usual causes, what the timing tells you, and when to see a doctor
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Perimenopause symptoms: the first signs most women miss
The years before menopause start earlier, last longer and feel stranger than most women are told. What is actually happening, and what helps
Microbiome & digestionWhy am I bloated after eating, even when I eat well?
Bloating after healthy meals is common and usually not dangerous. The usual causes, what the timing tells you, and when to see a doctor
Healthy agingHealthy aging is not anti-aging: train for life at 85
Not about looking younger, but about still carrying the shopping, hiking to the hut and getting up from the floor at 85. How to build that now
PerimenopauseWhy sleep falls apart in perimenopause, and what helps
Night sweats, 3 a.m. waking and a racing mind are common in the menopause transition. Why it happens, and the treatments with real evidence behind them
Microbiome & digestionGut microbiome: what it does and how to look after it
What the microbes in your gut really do, which claims hold up in people rather than mice, and the free habits with the best evidence
SkinWhat your skin says about your gut, and what it does not
Some skin problems do travel with gut problems. Face mapping is not one of them. What the research shows, and how to find your own triggers
Energy & feeling unwellTired all the time, but your blood tests are normal
Normal results are reassuring, but they do not explain all tiredness. What routine tests can miss, what to ask about, and when pushing through backfires
SleepWhat your sleep tracker can tell you, and what to act on
One night’s score says little. Two weeks of nights set against what you did and ate shows the patterns worth changing, and when to trust a doctor over the app
Healthy agingMuscle after 40: why it matters more than the scale
Muscle and strength fade quietly from midlife. Why that matters more than your weight, and how to start strength training safely at any age
PerimenopausePerimenopause or burnout? How to tell them apart
Exhaustion, poor sleep, a short fuse and brain fog fit both. What points towards each, why no test separates them, and why many women have both
EnvironmentMycotoxins and mould: what the evidence actually says
Mould at home can affect your airways. What mycotoxins are, what is proven, what is not, and what to do about a damp home in Switzerland
FoundationsWhat functional health actually means
Systems, causes and habits that are measured and adjusted. What the idea is, where the evidence is strong, and where the field deserves its critics
Energy & feeling unwellEnergy, and why it crashes when it does
The single domain that touches every other one, and the earliest place where the body tells you something is drifting
SleepSleep, the operating system of everything else
When sleep slips, every other system has to work twice as hard to compensate, and most of the time you feel that compensation as something else