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The Exhausted Achiever’s Body: What Your Symptoms Are Actually Telling You
You achieved everything on the checklist. The education, the career, the carefully constructed life. So why does your body feel like it’s breaking down? This isn’t a personal failing. It’s a physiological inevitability when we ignore how female bodies actually work. The Biology of Achievement at All Costs Female physiology operates on multiple overlapping rhythms:…
When Normal Labs Hide Prediabetes: Two Physicians’ Hidden Metabolic Crisis
We’re both physicians. We both had normal labs. We both had prediabetes. If it happened to us with medical degrees, access to testing, and decades of clinical experience, it’s happening to you. The Setup I’m Sara Szal, an OB/GYN with three decades in women’s health. My fasting glucose was 110 mg/dL. Standard labs flagged it…
Oral Contraceptives: The Benefits, the 7 Potential Risks, and the Unasked Questions
Introduction For over sixty years, oral contraceptives (OCPs) have been prescribed to hundreds of millions of women — celebrated as a liberation technology, a cultural inflection point, a way to reclaim autonomy over reproduction. But we rarely ask the more radical, more intimate question: What do they do to us? The truth is less settled…
