Cramps but no period in your forties usually means the cycle has lost its timing, not that something new has gone wrong. What the endocrinology shows, the other causes side by side, and the one pattern that belongs with a doctor.
Keeping track of everyone’s schedule has the widest gender gap of any mental-load task, a 2025 study of 2,100+ parents found. Why the app never fixed it.
Irregular periods in perimenopause are not random. A reproductive endocrinologist explains why ovulation goes first, what’s ordinary, and what’s worth a call to your doctor.
Does progesterone cream work? Two clinical reviews find real skin absorption but no proof of endometrial protection, and wild yam creams contain no usable hormone at all.
Listen to this article 1x Stop Load · The Reading Room, Vol. 45 · 9 min read · why competence is the thing that hides it, not the thing that prevents it High-functioning burnout is what it’s called when the exhaustion never shows up where anyone can see it. What the research says is actually…
Why did my cholesterol go up in menopause when nothing else changed? A study of 1,054 women found the rise clusters in one specific year, and it is not the year you would guess.
Why do I remember criticism more than praise? Four researchers surveyed the evidence and found the asymmetry sitting in nearly every corner of psychology. It is not a flaw in you.
Do brain training games work? Seven researchers read the whole literature. Gains on the trained task are real and reliable. Almost nothing carries into everyday thinking.
What happened to Rosie the Riveter after the war is usually told as a homecoming. The government’s own 1944 survey found three quarters of women war workers wanted to keep their jobs.
Trying to switch off from work in the evening is usually treated as a discipline problem. The recovery research treats it as a measurable state, and the bill for failing it arrives in the morning.
