by Chelsea Eilts | May 8, 2023 | Hormones, Lifestyle
If your mood has changed in perimenopause — if you feel irritable, anxious, emotionally reactive, or just not like yourself — the most important thing I can tell you is this: that is not a character issue. That is a biochemical shift with a specific physiological...
by Chelsea Eilts | Mar 28, 2023 | Hormones, Lifestyle
Low libido is one of the most commonly normalized and most poorly addressed symptoms of perimenopause. “You’re tired, you’re stressed, it’s normal at your age” — these are the answers most women receive. They’re not wrong that...
by Chelsea Eilts | Mar 24, 2023 | Hormones, Metabolism
You haven’t changed what you eat. You’re still exercising. And you’re gaining weight anyway — particularly around your middle, in a way that feels completely new and completely unresponsive to every strategy that ever worked before. Somewhere in the...
by Chelsea Eilts | Mar 23, 2023 | Lifestyle
I work with biology every day — labs, hormones, neurotransmitters, metabolic markers. And I also work with language and the subconscious mind. For most people, those seem like different categories. They’re not. Language is not just communication. Language is the...
by Chelsea Eilts | Mar 20, 2023 | Metabolism
The metabolic slowdown that many women experience in perimenopause is real. It’s not inevitable, and it’s not primarily about aging. It’s about a specific set of physiological changes — in hormone function, mitochondrial efficiency, and cellular...
