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Living well, for longer. On your own terms.
What do you want the years ahead to hold? More movement, meaningful connections, new adventures—or simply more freedom to enjoy everyday life?
Her Own Way explores healthy ageing through women’s experiences and accessible research. From strength, nourishment and menopause to emerging science around NAD+ and peptides, we look at what has been established, what is still being investigated and which questions remain unanswered.
Not a promise to turn back time. A place to understand the possibilities.
01 / EVERYDAY HEALTH
Explore strength, nourishment and movement through research on function, mood and everyday health.
If the scales barely move, it is easy to wonder whether your effort counts. I want us to notice other changes that matter to health and everyday life.
Source context: Frontiers in Medicine · 12 August 2026
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Read article : Exercise After Menopause: Benefits the Scales Won’t Show YouA diagnosis can make ordinary movement feel uncertain. I want to understand what helps women keep moving with support, rather than feeling they have to guess.
Source context: Frontiers in Physiology · 12 August 2026 · Healthy Bones Australia guidance · 27 November 2023
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Read article : Low Bone Density Doesn’t Mean You Have to Stop MovingWhen you are less hungry, “eat less” stops being a useful answer. I look at nourishment, strength and what to ask when food feels difficult.
Source context: Obesity Medicine Association explainer · 1 August 2026 · Joint expert advisory · 2025
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Read article : Less Hungry Doesn’t Mean Less Nourishment: Eating Well on GLP-1 MedicinesWhen even getting started feels hard, I do not think exercise should become another test of willpower. This small study asks a more inviting question.
Source context: University of Limerick research-team summary · 17 July 2026 (summary publication date)
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Read article : You Don’t Have to Lift Heavy to Start: Strength Training, Low Mood and the First Step02 / WOMEN’S MIDLIFE QUESTIONS
Make sense of changing symptoms and cognition, with space for your own questions about care.
Weight, sleep, concentration and migraine can all become part of the midlife conversation. I want us to have room to talk about the whole picture.
Source context: Clinical guidance and a 2025 study
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Read article : Perimenopause & menopause: joining the dotsA headline about the menopausal brain can sound frightening. I want to understand what the scans show without turning them into a prediction about you.
Source context: Nature Communications · 8 September 2026
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Read article : Your Brain at Menopause: Change Does Not Automatically Mean DeclineA headline about hormones and Alzheimer’s can make a personal decision feel urgent. I want to slow it down and look at what the study can really tell us.
Source context: Neurology · online 12 August 2026; issue 8 September 2026 · NICE guidance checked 26 September 2026
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Read article : Does HRT Protect the Brain? Why One New Study Cannot Settle the Question03 / EMERGING SCIENCE
Explore NAD+, biomarkers and peptide research. These articles examine specific measurements and health outcomes; they do not establish that a product extends life.
NAD+, NMN, NR: the names can blur together quickly. Here is how I make sense of them, starting with what the product says it contains.
Source context: Therapeutic Goods Administration guidance · 12 August 2026
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Read article : NAD+, NMN and NR: What’s the Difference—and What Is Actually in the Bottle?A blood measurement went up. But did anyone feel better? That is the distinction I want to understand before a laboratory result becomes a wellbeing promise.
Source context: Kornilov and colleagues · GeroScience · 30 July 2026
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Read article : An Oral NAD+ Trial Raised a Blood Marker—But Did People Feel Better?Could a blood sample help researchers understand menopause and the brain? I am curious about the possibility, but a research clue is not a prediction of your future.
Source context: Nature Medicine · 22 September 2026
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Read article : Could Menopause Leave a Signature in Our Blood?I want to know what sits behind a striking weight-loss number. The fuller TRIUMPH-2 results give us more to talk about, including side effects and unanswered questions.
Source context: TRIUMPH-2: The Lancet · 29 September 2026; TRIUMPH-3: July sponsor report
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Read article : Retatrutide’s Phase 3 Evidence Has Matured: What TRIUMPH-2 Now Tells UsWhy is MOTS-c called an “exercise peptide”? I look at the research behind the name and the difference between measuring it after exercise and taking it as a treatment.
Source context: Reynolds and colleagues · Nature Communications · 20 January 2021
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Read article : MOTS-c: What the “Exercise Peptide” Research Actually ShowsA menopause-related MOTS-c headline can sound very relevant to women’s lives. I look at what the mouse study found and what it cannot yet tell us.
Source context: Lu and colleagues · Journal of Molecular Medicine · online 6 February 2019; April 2019 issue
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Read article : MOTS-c and Menopause: What a Mouse Study Can—and Cannot—Tell UsThis MOTS-c study included women, which makes it especially worth reading carefully. The important detail is that they exercised — they were not given the peptide.
Source context: Dieli-Conwright and colleagues · Scientific Reports · 19 August 2021
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Read article : Exercise and MOTS-c: What a Study in Women Found“Switching on” a cell pathway sounds promising. I want to know whether the repair researchers hoped for actually followed — and this study complicates the picture.
Source context: Xing and colleagues · Inflammation and Regeneration · 22 June 2026
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Read article : MOTS-c and Cellular Repair: Why Switching On a Pathway Isn’t the Whole Story15 articles in this collection. Explore What the Research Says for more of the questions that matter to you.
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