Reinventing my relationship with food in midlife

Turns out, we can't biohack our way out of aging.

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Go ahead: ask me about my macros. Or insulin resistance. Ask me about metabolic flexibility. Or seed oils, or phytoestrogens, or “hormone-balancing” foods.

Sure, my answers will be mostly based on biased, seconds-long Instagram soundbytes, but why not…ask me anyway.

Every morning, when I scroll reels as part of my Instagram Infotainment Wake-Up Routine, I’m faced with snippets of information that - typically in 5 seconds or less - create a compelling case for why about all of the above are important, even urgent.

And while I usually wind up scrolling on past, that nugget of information (or, often, misinformation) has planted a tiny seed of anxiety that my “I don’t know how to do midlife” brain just loves to let germinate and grow.

None of the phrases above are things my mother would have been familiar with when she was my age in the 80s or 90s. But for today’s midlife women, they’ve become part of the vernacular.

And I’ll admit, I’m torn about this.

On the one hand, as an independent and skeptical person, I appreciate when someone pulls back the curtain on conventional thinking to expose a not-yet-widely-accepted truth - something the Internet helps make possible for a wide audience.

On the other hand, the way we consume information these days has created a perfect breeding ground for half-baked ideas to seem just as credible as data-driven, evidence-based, fully-cooked facts.