Hormone fluctuations affect a broad range of conditions, transitions, and symptoms experienced by women from puberty to post-menopause. These fluctuations impact not only menstrual cycles but also various aspects of women’s physical and mental health.

Apart from being related to reproductive health – menopause, fertility, and contraception, hormones are behind endocrine conditions, which means that hormones impact much more than reproductive cycles. They drive conditions, transitions, and symptoms women experience daily. They influence how we feel, yet, in many cases, they remain a black box for most of us – our access to data on this topic is infrequent and incomplete at best.

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