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Your Muscle Has a Second Job (And It Might Be More Important Than the First) (opens the original)
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Muscle lifts heavy things. It’s what helps you carry your groceries in one trip, and get back up again if you fall or have to pick something up off the floor.But that’s job one.Job two is where it gets interesting, and it’s the one nobody’s really telling women about. Contracting muscle is one of your body’s primary glucose management systems. When your muscle works, it pulls sugar out of your bloodstream. It’s a huge part of your blood sugar picture that gets skipped over in the menopause conve
5 Ways to Calm Your Cortisol and 3 Ways to Make It Work for You After 45 (opens the original)
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I’ve been thinking about stress lately. How hormone levels affect stress, and then we stress ourselves out about being so stressed that we get even more stressed. Has this happened to you?It’s definitely happened to me. Then when I get the belly bloat, exhaustion, sleepless nights, and crazy-ass moods, I blame cortisol. I think cortisol is the most misunderstood hormone in menopause. It’s the wicked witch of the menopause story. But she really is a misunderstood heroine.We tend to think of corti
I Fixed My Sleep and Lost 5 Pounds (opens the original)
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The 60-Second Skin Routine Women Over 45 Are Doing Wrong. (opens the original)
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Mirror, mirror on the wall…You know what, something tells me that the wicked witch hit perimenopause.Because when it comes to hormones and skin, mirrors are big fat liars! In two ways.For most of our lives skin aging was slow, predictable, gradual. Mirrors didn’t tell you about the daily changes in your face. We watch our face day after day and don’t see the change. Our brains get used to these subtle changes and make them go unnoticed. And it’s only the day a memory from 10 years ago pops up on
Menopause Depression is Real (opens the original)
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If you’re reading this, you probably understand how it feels to stare at the ceiling at 2:22 am. The house quiet, but your mind spinning.Nothing terrible had happened, but I’d find my heart pounding. I’d be replaying everything that happened the day before in my mind, even though nothing especially noteworthy had even happened. I just wanted to sleep, but I would cry for no particular reason at all.I would eventually fall back asleep and in the morning pretend everything was fine.But then a rand
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