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Volume IX · No. 23
The Cover Story · Issue 23

The midlife renaissance nobody told you was coming.

Hormones, sleep, strength, identity. Four shifts that quietly arrive after 40 — and the rigorous, modern playbook for moving through them on your own terms.

Words by Helena Park
22 min read
"It's not decline. It's recalibration." — H.P.
In this issue

Stories worth your Sunday.

Hormones · 14 min

The HRT Conversation Every Woman Over 40 Should Have With Her Doctor

A decade after the WHI re-analyses, the conversation has changed. Here's what to ask for, and the science behind it.

By Dr. Sarah Kim, MD
Family · 9 min

Why Your Husband's Mood Changes After 40 — And What You Can Do About It

Andropause is real, measurable, and treatable. A guide to spotting it, talking about it, and acting on it together.

By Mara Ellison
Diagnostics

The Lab Values Your Doctor Isn't Explaining

A guided tour of the eight numbers worth knowing.

Peptides

BPC-157: What the Research Actually Says

A measured look at a promising, messy literature.

Mental Health

Sleep, Cortisol, and Why You Wake at 3 AM

The HPA-axis story everyone gets slightly wrong.

From the Editor

"We started WellnessMedia because the women in our lives were doing the most consequential research of anyone we knew — and being treated like the least serious audience on the internet. We thought they deserved better. So we built it."

— Helena Park, Editor-in-Chief

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