Stacker-Women’s Health

  Eating disorders are still widely assumed to be a teenager’s condition, not something that surfaces in a 52-year-old woman juggling a career, children, aging parents and the physical whiplash of menopause. That blind spot helps explain why this illness is so often overlooked in midlife. Online, people have begun calling it “menorexia”: disordered eating

  Creatine is not a new product. It’s a commodity ingredient that every supplement brand on earth already sells, and it’s been that way since the early 1990s. This makes what’s happening on Amazon right now genuinely strange: The creatine subcategory is up 90% over the last 12 months. That’s $57.5 million per month, $721

  Women with higher blood levels of several common “forever chemicals” reached menopause about a year earlier than women with lower levels, according to a 2026 study of nearly 5,000 women. Forever chemicals, collectively called PFAS, are found in everything from tap water and nonstick cookware to some makeup, clothing, and cleaning products, and have

  Postpartum psychosis is one of the most serious (but most misunderstood) perinatal mental health conditions. It’s a psychiatric emergency that requires urgent care, yet many people don’t recognize what it can look like. Unfortunately, lack of knowledge, stigma, and fear often delay diagnosis and treatment. What matters most is that it is treatable, and

  Between her two young toddlers, her work as a seaweed farmer on Humboldt County’s coast, and a third baby on the way, Leslie Booher doesn’t have a lot of spare time. But her prenatal appointments with her midwife, Laura Doyle, give Booher the opportunity to really focus on the pregnancy. “For me, feeling more

  More than 34% of women don’t know what reproductive stage they’re in, according to a new study published in The Menopause Society’s journal Menopause. That confusion peaks in a key group: 42% of women ages 40 to 44 said they are not sure if they are in perimenopause. The study found that women who’d

  Taylor Townsell remembers her OBGYN reassuring her that her IUD insertion would feel like “just a pinch.” The pain came a split second later. The 32-year-old described it to Truthdig and 19th News in still-vivid detail: “Bright, electric, as if my body had become nothing but nerve endings.” She passed out. Six years later,

  The early postpartum period—often called the fourth trimester—is a time of major transition. While you’re getting to know your baby and settling into a new rhythm, your body is also doing significant work behind-the-scenes. You’re healing from pregnancy and birth. Your hormones are shifting quickly. If you’re breastfeeding, your body is producing milk day

Northwell Health reports that women’s heart health requires unique attention due to historical male bias in research affecting diagnosis and treatment.