THE SH1971 BLOG

Fun fact: perimenopause has over 80 different symptoms and it seems like we discover new ones everyday. For me, this was certainly the case with my oral care: I've just turned 55 and inside of 2 months, I have had to have 2 r...

Let’s talk about something nobody talks about in midlife: slow gut motility. It’s funny until it isn’t — because declining gut motility leaves you feeling bloated, blocked, and puffy even when you’re doing all the right thing...

10 strategies that actually work — willpower not required

Let’s just get this out of the way right now: if you’ve tried to cut back on sugar and failed, it’s not because you are weak. It’s not because you lack discipline. It...

If you've ever felt like your body was taken over by a rouge alien in your 40s — like the front door locks were changed overnight and nobody gave you the new set of keys? — you're not imagining it. The workouts that used to w...

Something shifts in midlife. For me, it was a rather sort of a snap. You start to notice it — a growing awareness of you putting your energy out everywhere, and getting little in return except exhaustion, frustration and rese...

Ask most women over 40 how much protein they eat, and the answer is usually somewhere between "not enough" and "I have no idea." I'm Gen X, and probably like you, I grew up in the era of low-fat everything, calorie counting, ...