Hormones can be helpful heroes, supporting the immune system and a healthy sleep-wake schedule. But they can also be culprits of frustrating body issues, like excess weight that won’t come off despite ...

Hormones can be helpful heroes, supporting the immune system and a healthy sleep-wake schedule. But they can also be culprits of frustrating body issues, like excess weight that won’t come off despite ...

Somewhere around your early forties, things can start to feel a little off. Sleep gets lighter, moods shift unexpectedly, ...

Is your gut causing your mood swings? Nutritionist Marta León explains the oestrobolome - the bacterial community that ...

Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the spinal cord produce opioids, a new study from researchers at UC San Francisco has found. This stops pain signals before they get to ...

For most women, hormone therapy has long been a messy patchwork: an estrogen patch on the hip, a progesterone pill at night, a separate cream for dryness and—if libido crashes—a testosterone ...

Evidence-based nutritional strategies at each phase of the female lifespan can support transitions, prevent chronic disease ...

Conversations surrounding women’s health have been evolving for a long time — and are continuing to change today. Amid all the buzz on social media and beyond, more women have realized that when it ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: Starre Vartan is the author of “The Stronger Sex: What Science Tells Us About the Power of the Female Body,” which will be published on July 15. People who lived through the Irish ...

Women are expected to function through exhaustion, hormones, stress, and confusion while pretending everything is fine.

Scientists have discovered a new mechanism that acts via an immune cell and points toward a different way of treating chronic pain. Female hormones can suppress pain by making immune cells near the ...