Menopause hormone therapy (MHT) is one of the topics I’m asked about most, and the conversation around it has changed dramatically over the years. For two decades after the 2002 Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study, women were told hormones were dangerous (which was largely a fault of media mi...
I’ll be honest: more than once this week I’ve woken up and it’s taken me a moment to work out which city I’m in.
Highlights of the last few weeks include speaking at The Epicenter in Portland, Oregon, for the Women’s Global Sports Summit; a quick trip across the Pond for the Wellness Oasis in L...
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 th...
In my previous newsletter, I examined three terms that reshape how active women should think about aging: longevity, healthspan, and peakspan. The takeaway was this: most of us spend the majority of our adult lives in a “healthy but declined” state, and neither living longer nor avoiding illnes...
If there's one question I hear more than any other right now from active women, it's this: where do I even begin?
There’s no doubt you're motivated and you’re asking all the right questions: you know that training, nutrition, sleep, and stress all matter, but the sheer volume of information out...
I left New Zealand on April 12 with a carry-on bag, a full schedule, and the kind of quiet resolve that kicks in when you know you're heading towards work that matters. Two and a half weeks in, I'm somewhere between San Francisco and Los Angeles with a double espresso in hand, a voice that's ta...
We spend a lot of time talking about muscle, metabolism, and performance, but not nearly enough time talking about the brain. Yet women are disproportionately affected by cognitive decline and Alzheimer’s disease. Alzheimer’s is a brain condition that slowly damages memory, thinking, learning, ...
For a long time—going back to my postdoc days—I’ve experienced firsthand how far women’s health and fitness research lags behind the male-focused default data. It’s become my life’s mission to help fix this, so today I’m extremely proud to announce a new research funding partnership that will h...
Women live longer than men. On paper, we “win” longevity. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: many women are living longer, but those years are impacted by cognitive decline, cardiovascular disease, frailty, and loss of independence, especially after menopause. The real question becomes less ab...
One of the questions I’m often asked is: How connected are building muscle and building strength?
The short answer: they’re related, but not the same. You can increase strength without dramatically increasing muscle, and you can increase muscle without seeing proportional gains in strength. Res...
My latest conversation with Mel Robbins drops today, and it touches on many of the questions I’ve been thinking about as we head into 2026: how women can support metabolism, build muscle, and work with their hormones as they train, recover, and age in a landscape that’s often noisy, trend-drive...
As the calendar turns and we near the end of 2025, I wanted to take a moment to pause, reflect, and send a note of gratitude. I typically dedicate these newsletters to science-backed information for active women, but today I’ll break with the norm and share some of the highlights and challenges...
