Mind & Mood7 min read
The Word Is Right There
I posted on Reddit about making typos I'd never made before and losing words mid-sentence. Over 400 women told me the same story. Here's what the research says is actually happening.
Mar 6, 2026Read
Research-backed insights on sleep, recovery, hormonal health, and making sense of your Apple Watch data.
I posted on Reddit about making typos I'd never made before and losing words mid-sentence. Over 400 women told me the same story. Here's what the research says is actually happening.
You've been exhausted in a way sleep does not fix. Your brain does things it never used to do. Your doctor says everything looks fine. Here is what nobody has told you yet.
Ask anyone what perimenopause feels like and they'll say hot flashes. Ask 17,494 women what they actually experience and the answer is different. Exhaustion. Fatigue. Irritability. The research is now in.
The worst part of perimenopause wasn't the symptoms. It was the months of not knowing why they were happening. Turns out, that uncertainty itself has a measurable cost.
I wore multiple wearables, tracked everything, went to every doctor. My scores said I was fine. My body said otherwise. Here's what the data actually showed. And the coffee-fueled moment that changed everything.
You slept 8 hours but feel terrible. The problem isn't how long you slept. It's how many times you woke up. And the research on what that does to your body is striking.
A cold front rolls in and you get a migraine, stiff joints, and brain fog all at once. This is not a coincidence. It is neuroscience.
When the word you've used a thousand times just disappears mid-sentence, everyone has an explanation. Stress. Sleep. Age. But the research points somewhere else entirely.