11 Jun
Right so I need to say this somewhere because my family are bored of hearing it. I spent about three months last year buying things. Magnesium this, ashwagandha that, some collagen powder that tasted like sadness, a B-complex because an influencer with very good lighting told me I needed it. My bathroom shelf looked like a health food shop that had given up on organisation. I was spending I dread to think how much and I genuinely could not tell you if any of it was doing anything because I was taking six things at once like some kind of menopausal experiment with no control group. So I stopped. All of it. Just stopped. Then after a few weeks I picked one thing to try. Just magnesium, because it kept coming up in normal conversations rather than sponsored posts, and it's not expensive, and I thought fine, one thing, let me actually notice whether anything shifts. I've been writing a few notes. Nothing fancy. Just a line before bed. Sleep ok / woke at 3 / hot flush woke me / felt anxious. That kind of thing. So at least if someone asks me I have an answer that isn't "I think maybe possibly it might be helping but honestly who knows". I'm not saying it's working. I'm genuinely not. I'm saying I can now track something instead of just throwing money at Instagram. I'm also trying to eat more protein because apparently that's the boring unglamorous thing that might actually matter. Which is less fun than a supplement with a nice label but here we are. Anyone else doing the one-thing-at-a-time approach? Would love to hear what people are actually noticing rather than what the algorithm thinks I need. x