4d ago
52 and I have spent the last three months absolutely drowning in supplement content. Every other reel is someone with perfect lighting telling me I NEED ashwagandha, or lion's mane, or some £45 powder that tastes like a garden centre. And I just... I don't know who any of these women are or whether any of it actually worked for them or whether they're just being paid. What I actually want is someone to tell me honestly: did you take magnesium for four weeks and sleep better, or didn't you? Not a transformation. Not a glow-up. Just a normal person's normal experience. I've started writing down how I feel each morning before I change anything. Just a few words in my notes app. Slept badly, anxious by 9am, foggy until noon, that kind of thing. Not because I have a system, just because I kept forgetting what baseline even felt like. I figured I should know where I actually am before I start adding things. I'm also trying to eat properly first, which sounds obvious but I'd sort of quietly stopped doing it. More protein, more veg, actually eating breakfast. Boring to type out but it feels more honest than buying another tub of something. The bit I'm nervous about is my GP appointment next month. I want to mention what I'm already taking (just vitamin D at the moment) and ask whether there's anything that might interact with HRT if she thinks that's the route. I don't really know how to bring it up without sounding like I've been on TikTok for three months. Which I have. But still. x