What My Grandmothers Taught Me About Aging Well
My great-grandmother lived to 105. One of my grandmothers made it to 106. The other was 97 when she died.
While the numbers on their own don’t tell you much, I can tell you what it actually looked like. All three lived independently. All three had their faculties—sharp, opinionated, entirely themselves right to the end. You’d walk into my great-grandmother’s house and before your coat was off...
How to Think Like an Athlete
I was giving a keynote earlier this year to a room full of active women, and asked them to raise their hand if they considered themselves an athlete. I’d say maybe less than a quarter of hands went up. The rest looked around, unsure.
The scientist in me had been curious about this for a while, so it wasn’t entirely surprising, but it still told me something. I know for a fact there were badas...
Coffee, Decoded: What the Research Actually Says About Caffeine and Women
I'll say it upfront: I love my coffee. My mornings typically start with a strong cup, and many of the active women I know have a similar habit. So it's worth asking a question that doesn't get asked enough: how do we actually know caffeine affects us the way we think it does when most of the research behind these assumptions was done on men?
This gap matters more than you'd think. Caffeine is...
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