Here’s a quick take on mood and cycles for women over 35, from Asian medicine, books, websites, and 20+ years of helping women with cycles and fertility. There’s not one website that would have it like this, but Lara Briden, Stacey Sims, and Aviva Romm are good. The last decade of a woman’s cycles are like her first few years of cycles during puberty - irregular because the hormones aren’t lining up ideally every month. Here’s a graph of the process: https://www.larabriden.com/what-estrogen-d...

After age 9, many kids describe being hungry “all the time” or “within an hour after every meal”.  Some of them connect this with bad mood and impulsiveness, but many do not. They describe the food at home as “fine, but always the same.” Maybe they love family dinners but not breakfast and lunch. Maybe they don’t enjoy eating at school and getting teased for whatever they packed - a cultural problem that isn’t going away soon. Here are the strategies I offer them, and offer moms who reach out...

You like vegetables, and you know what kind of exercise makes you feel great and look great. You fall asleep easily and know that you...