Nutrition, Fitness & Lifestyle
Iron, Heavy Periods and the Tiredness Nobody Explains
Heavy periods are the most common cause of iron deficiency in women, and the exhaustion it causes is often attributed to everything else first.
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Hormonal & Metabolic Health
Understanding PCOS: Diagnosis, Metabolism and What Actually Helps
A longer look at how PCOS is diagnosed, why it affects metabolism as well as periods, and which interventions have evidence behind them.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
You Can Get Pregnant While Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding can delay the return of ovulation, but it is not reliable contraception once feeding patterns change.
Menstrual Health
Painful Periods Are Not Something You Simply Live With
Some cramping is usual. Pain that stops you working, studying or sleeping is not, and it is worth investigating.
Menstrual Health
Irregular Periods Do Not Always Mean PCOS
A cycle that varies is common, especially in the first years after periods begin. PCOS is one possible explanation among several.
Menopause & Midlife Health
Perimenopause: What Changes, and When to Expect It
The years before periods stop bring shifting cycles, sleep changes and mood swings. Here is what is typical and what is worth raising.
Menopause & Midlife Health
Bones in Midlife: Why Oestrogen Matters
Bone loss accelerates around menopause. What drives it, and which habits genuinely protect against it.
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
"Mood Swings Before Your Period Are Just Hormones"
Cyclical mood changes are real and hormonal. But when they are severe enough to disrupt work or relationships, that has a name and a treatment.
Mental & Emotional Wellbeing
Sleep, Stress and Your Cycle: The Loop
Poor sleep raises stress hormones, which disrupt the cycle, which disrupts sleep further. Where the loop can be broken.
Pregnancy & Postpartum
Early Pregnancy: The First Twelve Weeks
What is happening, what is normal, and which symptoms mean calling someone rather than waiting.
Menopause & Midlife Health
After Menopause: What Still Needs Attention
Menopause ends periods, not health management. Heart, bone and vaginal health all change, and all respond to attention.
Hormonal & Metabolic Health
Thyroid and Your Cycle: What TSH Actually Tells You
An under- or overactive thyroid changes periods, weight, mood and fertility. What the common test measures, and what it does not.
Menstrual Health
Heavy Periods: How Much Is Too Much
There is a practical threshold for heavy bleeding, and it is more useful than trying to measure millilitres.
Fertility & Reproductive Health
Tracking Ovulation: What Works and What Does Not
Apps, temperature, kits and cervical mucus all claim to find your fertile window. They differ in what they can actually tell you, and when.
Sexual & Intimate Health
Recurrent UTIs: Why They Come Back
Repeat urinary infections are common and rarely a hygiene failure. What raises the risk and what genuinely reduces it.
Nutrition, Fitness & Lifestyle
Eating Across Your Cycle: Signal and Noise
"Cycle syncing" diets promise a lot. Some of the underlying physiology is real; most of the prescriptions are not.