Flora & Fauna

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Flora & Fauna is a women’s wellness column rooted in science, lived experience, and bodily literacy—not trends, not shame, not silence.

It exists for women whose bodies are changing and who were never given the language, research, or respect to understand why.

We talk about hormones without whispering.
We talk about libido without euphemisms.
We talk about rage, fatigue, grief, softness, and power as biological—not moral—experiences.

Perimenopause, Hormone balance, Women's Health, Menopause E. Lynn Jimenez Perimenopause, Hormone balance, Women's Health, Menopause E. Lynn Jimenez

Perimenopause Symptoms That Make You Feel 20 Years Older Overnight — And What’s Actually Helping

Perimenopause has a way of making you feel like your body suddenly stopped cooperating.

Your joints ache to the point where you’re picking up your coffee mug with two hands, praying you don’t drop it straight down the front of your shirt and baptize your tits in caffeine.
Energy?? Nonexistent.

You find yourself wondering when the last time you actually saw daylight from somewhere outside the four walls of your apartment.

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