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What Labs to Ask Your Doctor For After 40

"Your labs are normal." Few sentences frustrate women more, especially when they feel anything but normal. Often the problem isn't that nothing is wrong. It's that the right things weren't tested. A standard annual panel usually covers the basics. If you're dealing...

Unable to Release Weight After 40? The Hormone Shift Explained.

There was a time when cutting out bread for two weeks or adding a few extra workouts would drop five pounds. Now you do the same things and nothing happens. Or worse, the scale goes up. It's tempting to blame yourself. Please don't. Your body is working under a...

Perimenopause or Something Else? How to Tell.

The night sweats, the mood swings, the fatigue, the weight that won't budge. You've read enough to wonder if this is perimenopause. Maybe your doctor even said so. It might be. But perimenopause is a bit of a great pretender. Several other conditions cause nearly...

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What Labs to Ask Your Doctor For After 40

What Labs to Ask Your Doctor For After 40

"Your labs are normal." Few sentences frustrate women more, especially when they feel anything but normal. Often the problem isn't that nothing is wrong. It's that the right things weren't tested. A standard annual panel usually covers the basics. If you're dealing...

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Perimenopause or Something Else? How to Tell.

Perimenopause or Something Else? How to Tell.

The night sweats, the mood swings, the fatigue, the weight that won't budge. You've read enough to wonder if this is perimenopause. Maybe your doctor even said so. It might be. But perimenopause is a bit of a great pretender. Several other conditions cause nearly...

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Why Am I So Tired All the Time? 7 Causes After 40

Why Am I So Tired All the Time? 7 Causes After 40

You slept. Maybe not well, but you slept. And still, by 2 p.m. you're bargaining with yourself to make it to dinner. If that sounds familiar, hear this first: you are not lazy, and you are not imagining it. Fatigue is one of the most common things women bring to me,...

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How to Become a Faith-Based Health Coach

How to Become a Faith-Based Health Coach

There is a growing hunger among women for health guidance that does not separate the body from the soul. Women who want to be told the truth about their hormones and their faith in the same breath. Coaches who have been through the fire and come out changed. If you...

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Perimenopause Symptoms: What No One Tells You

Perimenopause Symptoms: What No One Tells You

You are not depressed. You are not going crazy. You are not falling apart. You might be in perimenopause — and no one prepared you for this. What Is Perimenopause? Perimenopause is the transition phase leading up to menopause (defined as 12 consecutive months without...

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Christian Women and Emotional Eating

Christian Women and Emotional Eating

You know what you should eat. You have read the books and downloaded the apps and started over more Mondays than you can count. And still — when the stress hits, when the loneliness creeps in, when the day goes sideways — you reach for food. Not because you're hungry....

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Blood Sugar Balance for Women | The Foundation

Blood Sugar Balance for Women | The Foundation

There is one thing that underlies almost every chronic health struggle women face: blood sugar dysregulation. The mood swings, the energy crashes, the cravings, the weight that clings to your midsection, the anxiety that spikes in the afternoon — these are not random....

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Why Diets Don’t Work for Women Over 40 | What Does

Why Diets Don’t Work for Women Over 40 | What Does

If you have spent years doing all the right things — eating less, moving more, cutting carbs, counting calories — and your body is simply not responding the way it used to, you are not failing. The system you've been given is failing you. The Diet Industry Was Built...

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