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If you are a woman in your 30s or 40s and your sleep has changed in ways that conventional sleep advice hasn’t fixed, it is probably not a sleep problem. It is a hormone problem disguised as a sleep problem.

A recent investigation found more than 400 videos promoting peptide injections across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube in a single month, with over 14 million combined views.

Your hormones are like an orchestra — each section playing a part in your energy, metabolism, mood, and sleep. When one instrument is out of tune (usually cortisol), the entire symphony starts to sound off.

Welcome to the first installment of what is going to be a recurring series on this blog, because the misinformation machine never sleeps and frankly neither do I. Here's the premise: social media — specifically TikTok and Instagram — has become one of the most powerful health communication platforms in the world. Social media influencers with no medical training are pushing extreme diets, detox teas, DIY hormone resets, and viral wellness hacks to millions of followers with

The female protocol for sauna use is not the same as the male protocol, and most of what goes viral about heat therapy was developed on male bodies in male-dominated research environments. Sound familiar? If you've read my biohacking post on the male data problem, you already know this is a pattern in wellness research, not an anomaly. So I went looking for what the female-specific research actually says. Here's what I found.

Alcohol is an established cause of at least seven types of cancer, a fact agreed upon by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute, and the U.S. Surgeon General. It is classified by the World Health Organization as a Group 1 carcinogen — the same category as tobacco and asbestos. The WHO has stated explicitly that no level of alcohol consumption is safe when it comes to human health

Estimates suggest we ingest the equivalent of a credit card's worth of plastic weekly — through food, water, and air. Other researchers have pushed back on that specific figure, but broadly agree that human exposure is substantial, measurable, and increasing. Annual ingestion estimates range from 52,000 to 142,000 particles — though these remain uncertain due to the lack of standardized detection methods.

I want to be clear about what that "major source of chronic stress" actually was. It was a five-year relationship with a man who was emotionally, psychologically, and financially abusive. And I want to talk about it not because I enjoy revisiting it, but because I am a highly intelligent woman who let it happen for years, who felt profound shame about that for a long time, and who now understands — backed by actual science — that my intelligence had almost nothing to do with

March 2020. The world was shutting down, I had just gotten a Bernese mountain dog who had not yet grasped the concept of her own size, and I was working from my couch in a DC apartment so small that a proper desk wasn't even an option. A kitchen bar stool was my office chair. My couch was my conference room. My back was quietly building a case against me that it would present, with devastating thoroughness, over the next two years.

The supplement industry deserves its own post — and it's getting one — but I'll say this briefly: a lot of what gets marketed as "biohacking" is a product looking for a problem, not research looking for a solution. The protocols that actually have evidence behind them tend to be the boring ones. Resistance training. Sleep. Managing stress. Eating enough protein. These are not glamorous. They don't have a social media aesthetic. They also consistently outperform almost every s