#menopause

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Hi Mastodon! I'm Sheri Goodman Graham, MS, a nutrition and lifestyle coach for women over 45. After nearly 30 years in nutrition, my focus is simple: lose body fat, not muscle. Whole plant foods, enough protein, strength training and sleep beat crash diets every time. Why weight loss after 45 feels different, and what helps: https://medium.com/@sherigoodmangrahamms/why-weight-loss-after-45-feels-different-and-what-helps-766299b7e022 #introduction #nutrition #plantbased #menopause #womenshealth
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Talk of human poop
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"You’re not seen as middle aged, you’re seen as old, whereas your comparable male counterpart is seen as in his prime... "Whenever you’re perceived to be middle aged, you’re perceived to have family issues, menopause-related issues, or you’re just difficult to manage.... "As they do grow older and more mature in their careers, [women] lose some of the fear of speaking their mind. And certain men don’t like that." https://www.huffpost.com/entry/age-discrimination-women-goog_l_6a6ba2e0e4b01948ae9a97fd #GenderDiscrimination #WomenOver40 #menopause #misogyny
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Here's that yearly thread for our collective tips for people with Dysautonomia, (peri)menopause, chronic illness in heatwaves.
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Across a woman’s life there are three major physiological transitions: puberty, pregnancy/childbirth, and menopause. Medicine tends to treat them as separate stories. Lived experience often doesn’t. This essay explores a single regulatory pattern that reappears across these stages — sometimes as overwhelm, sometimes as crisis, sometimes much later as muscle cramps or autonomic symptoms — not as pathology, but as boundary dynamics under changing conditions. It’s about recognition, not diagnosis. About regulation, not “coping better”. And about why many women sense continuity where systems see fragments. If this resonates — for you, your daughters, or your patients — you’re not imagining the pattern. https://open.substack.com/pub/hybridmind42/p/boundary-transitions-in-female-physiology?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=75c2ac #WomensHealth #Menopause #Perimenopause #Puberty #Pregnancy #BoundaryDynamics #RegulationNotPathology #ListenToWomen #HealthLiteracy
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