At 54, I'm newly inspired.
I'm riding high on a lot of good, personal health news today. My bone density scan said I have the bones of a healthy thirty-year-old. My cancer screenings have been clear for years. For those new to me, I had breast cancer twice in my 40s. My years of surgeries, radiation, and chemotherapy are why I make a strong distinction between medicine and wellbeing.
Wellbeing helped me endure and recover. Today, it helps me live fully without worries about getting older.
My cholesterol, blood pressure, and blood sugar are excellent. I sleep well, my skin is in good shape, and my thinking is clear. Even more, while there were a few issues to attend to in (peri and) menopause, it's mostly been quite easy. I have not been plagued with hot flashes or night sweats.
I feel great.
None of this is an accident. For close to seventeen years, I've become a careful student of what's causing chronic health and obesity problems that didn't exist in past generations, or really over the history of humankind, and creating simple measures to resist the lure of overprocessed foods.
My own care is daily work, although I hate the use of the word 'work.'
It feels almost disrespectful to a sacred process. Nourishment. Mobility. Sleep. Rest. Resistance. Repeat.
I'm proud of what I've accomplished for myself and feel renewed to share it with you.
What I teach works. It's health in practice.
More importantly, it quietly adds up until one day you get to marvel at all the things that have gone right. Your body and what it needs are no longer a mystery.
The Reads 🍎
- I've been talking for years about how menopause does NOT bring a decline in metabolism. Science backs me up. What it does bring is insulin resistance, which makes diet so crucial and explains so much about midlife weight gain.
What Menopause Does to the Body
A head-to-toe guide to the many unexpected symptoms of the midlife transition.
“there are more than two dozen known symptoms of menopause and perimenopause, the time leading up to and immediately following your last period."
