There are days when something relatively small seems to hit much harder than it used to. An email arrives with the wrong tone, a meeting does not go as planned, or someone asks you for one more thing when you already have too much to do. You hold yourself together at work, but later find yourself un...

You may technically finish work at five or six o'clock, but when does your body actually finish? You close the laptop, yet your mind is still running through tomorrow's meetings. You prepare dinner while replying to a message, sit on the sofa but check your email because you suddenly remember someth...

You have been tired since lunchtime. By six o'clock, you are counting down the hours until bed and telling yourself that tonight you will finally have an early night. Yet when the house becomes quiet, something strange happens. Instead of drifting naturally towards sleep, you seem to wake up again. ...

You close your laptop, walk through the front door or finally finish the last call of the day, and almost automatically head towards the kitchen. Perhaps you pour a glass of wine while making dinner, eat a handful of crisps while deciding what to cook, break off a piece of cheese every time you open...

You have eaten dinner. You know you have eaten enough. Yet twenty minutes later you find yourself opening the cupboard looking for something else. Perhaps it is chocolate, toast, crisps, biscuits or cheese. You may even stand there thinking, Why am I doing this? I cannot possibly still be hungry. Fo...

Cortisol has become one of the most talked about hormones in midlife. Scroll through social media and you could easily come away believing that cortisol is responsible for your changing waistline, your 3am wake ups, your cravings, your tiredness, your anxiety and almost anything else that starts fee...

You are getting everything done. The meetings happen, the emails are answered, the family is organised and somehow you keep all the plates spinning. From the outside, you probably look perfectly capable. You may even tell yourself that you are coping because there has been no dramatic breakdown, no ...

When you think about ageing well, you may picture staying mentally sharp, travelling, remaining independent and continuing to enjoy the life you have worked hard to create. What you may not immediately picture is yourself doing squats with a kettlebell or pulling against a resistance band.

Yet the ...

You know strength training would probably be good for you. You may even have a pair of dumbbells tucked away somewhere, a resistance band in a drawer or a gym membership you genuinely intended to use more often. But between early meetings, commuting, deadlines, family commitments, meals and everythi...

You may still be walking regularly, going to yoga, squeezing in the occasional workout and generally trying to stay active. Yet somewhere in your 40s or 50s, you may begin to notice that the exercise that once kept you feeling fit does not seem to have quite the same effect. Your waistline may be ch...

There is a difference between being able to move and feeling secure in the way you move. You may still walk regularly, attend an occasional yoga class and manage a demanding working life, yet notice that your body no longer feels quite as dependable as it once did. Your legs tire sooner on stairs...

Something important is changing in women’s health, and women over 50 are at the centre of it.

They are questioning advice that once told them to eat less, weigh less and quietly accept declining energy as part of getting older. They are asking why women’s healthcare has so often focused on repro...