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• Your bone density peaks before 30.
After that, you’re maintaining what you built. Calcium, vitamin D, and weight-bearing exercise in your 20s is not optional - it’s the investment your future self is counting on.
• Track your cycle.
Not just for contraception. Your cycle is the most accurate health data you have. Irregular periods, brutal PMS, pain that stops you functioning are signals.
• Get your iron checked.
Iron deficiency is one of the most common and most missed conditions in young women. It looks like fatigue, brain fog, flat mood, things you’re used to just accepting as ‘the norm’.
• Eat breakfast.
Skipping it doesn’t make you disciplined. It spikes your cortisol, crashes your blood sugar, and dysregulates your mood before 9am. Your body reads it as a threat.
• SPF. Every day. Starting now.
Sun damage is cumulative and invisible for a decade before it isn’t. The collagen you have at 22 is the most you will ever have. Protect it now, not when you’re trying to reverse something you can’t.
• Chronic stress has a physiological cost.
It depletes magnesium, B vitamins, and zinc - the nutrients that regulate your mood, sleep, and hormones. The burnout you push through in your 20s shows up in your body in your 30s.
• The pill is not neutral.
Coming off it after years of use can trigger a hormonal adjustment that nobody warns you about. If you feel different after stopping - that’s real, and it deserves investigation.
• Protein at every meal.
Not a fitness trend. It’s how you maintain muscle, stabilise blood sugar, and support hormone production. The women who feel best in their 40s started here.
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