Should you try cold plunging?
Here’s what to know about the potential impact on the body — especially during perimenopause and menopause.
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Jennifer Gerson
Reporter (She/Her)
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Do you need a vibration plate?
On social media, people are insisting that they're shaking their metabolisms back into shape. Here's what to know.
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Why the manosphere reveres the ‘Pilates girl’
The manosphere has made its way into the mainstream and onto reality TV, where men are elevating a certain type of thin White woman.
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Women over 40 get to be complicated on screen, finally
Now it's time for more of them to get sexual.
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Impacted by the estrogen patch shortage? Here are your options.
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Are we still mad at Tyra Banks? Should we be?
A new Netflix documentary revisits “America’s Next Top Model,” which both reflected and shaped culture around beauty standards.
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Supermajority, group organizing women around politics, is shutting down
Founders of the group, which started in 2019, pointed to the legacy of women organizers responding to the Trump administration and how the country thinks about gender.
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How Trump turned a January 6 death into the politics of ‘protecting women’
Ashli Babbitt was killed while trying to overturn the results of the 2020 election — and became proof to Trump and his followers that women need protection.
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What it's like when puberty and perimenopause are under the same roof
You and your kids are both going through big hormonal changes. Here's how to navigate that.