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What to Know About Postpartum Exercise
During the “fourth trimester,” it’s important to respect your body’s recovery time and ease back into a fitness routine.
How to Reverse Female Hair Loss
Here are 11 reasons you might be losing hair — and what you can do about it.
What Your Period Is Trying to Tell You
Here are nine things to know about your monthly cycle.
What No One Tells You About Becoming a Mother: A Q&A With Alexandra Sacks, MD
The reproductive psychiatrist who is popularizing the term “matrescence” shares how we can have a more honest conversation about the emotional challenges of motherhood.
How to Exercise When You’re Pregnant
These guidelines and training tips for prenatal and postpartum fitness can help keep you strong and safe through pregnancy and beyond.
How Your Hormones Affect Weight Loss
In his new book, The Setpoint Diet, New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Bailor talks about how to balance your hormones and lose weight naturally.
Why One Woman Rejected Breast Reconstruction After a Double Mastectomy
In her new memoir, FLAT: Reclaiming My Body from Breast Cancer, Catherine Guthrie talks about why “going flat” was the only way for her to feel whole.
COMING CLEAN: How to Heal Your Birth Story
Our managing editor discovers how the birth of a child can bring up complex feelings and vulnerabilities.
Easing PCOS Naturally
Here are six tips to balancing your hormones and treating polycystic ovary syndrome.
How to Balance Your Hormones
A guide to understanding the chemical messengers that determine our well-being.
All About Menopause: Q&A With Marcelle Pick, OB/GYN NP
An integrative-health practitioner discusses the symptoms of menopause, and how women can make this time in their lives positive and meaningful.
How to Exercise Before, During, and After Pregnancy
Brooke Cates, founder of the Bloom Method, explains why innovative core exercises can help expecting and postnatal women.
3 Exercises to Keep Your Core Strong During Pregnancy
While pregnancy isn’t the time to focus on training your abs, you can still take steps to maintain your fitness and keep your midsection strong which can alleviate back pain and strengthen your pelvic floor.
5 Causes of Unexplained Infertility
Here are five possible causes of infertility — and lifestyle modifications that can help women address them.
How Strength Training Balances Your Hormones
Looking to regulate your sex hormones and increase insulin sensitivity? Try weight training.
Why Do Thyroid Disorders Affect Women More Often Than Men?
Here’s what to know about thyroid dysfunction — and how to get tested.
Fish Smarts for Pregnant Women
Which fish should pregnant women eat? For optimal health, the key is looking at both mercury content and omega-3 fatty-acid levels.
Nourishing Care for the Postpartum Mom: An Interview With Heng Ou
Heng Ou, the author of The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother, talks to us about ways to honor the postpartum season.
Do C-Sections Alter A Baby’s Microbiome?
Babies born via C-section may be missing out on beneficial bacteria, studies show.
The Problem With Hormonal Birth Control: An Interview with Aviva Romm, MD
Integrative-medicine doc and hormone expert Aviva Romm, MD, talks to us about the health effects of hormonal contraception — and what to do about it.
Nutritional Supplements May Decrease Postpartum Blues
A trio of supplements supports brain changes in women during postpartum.