Articles

January 18, 2024

Why Aren’t More Women Taking This Supplement?

Creatine has been associated with male bodybuilders, athletes, and gym rats since it sprinted into the general public’s knowledge following the 1992 Summer Olympics. I think it’s safe to assume that we don’t think of perimenopausal and postmenopausal women when we think of the supplement. 

January 10, 2024

Astrologer Susan Miller on Career Longevity

Astrologer Susan Miller is on the mend. In late 2023, she suffered an eye infection that temporarily left her partially blind. “Macular degeneration. You're supposed to get it when you're 80. I got it at 35,” she says.

January 4, 2024

What You Should Know About ADHD and Age

I discovered the hard way just how much female sex hormones affect ADHD — like the I-went-to-five-different-doctors-before-anyone-told-me hard way. So let me tell you what I learned so you don't have to go through it too.

December 21, 2023

When Acne Torments You As An Adult

“Have you tried that soap I bought you?” my mother asks, expertly chopping a red onion while I roll my eyes behind her back. I’m a 34-year-old mother of three, and I’ve been battling a persistent case of adult acne for months.

December 14, 2023

What You Didn’t Know (But Should) About Heart Health

Heart disease is the number one cause of death in the United States as well as the leading killer of women ages 25 and up.

December 7, 2023

The College Convo We Should Be Having

If you’ve ever grimaced after a well-meaning friend calls you resilient, you’re not alone. ​“It’s such a complicated word. Ugh,” says author Stephanie Land over the phone.

November 30, 2023

The Beauty of Male Friendships

On a clear, warm weekday evening near the tail end of summer, I stood on a rooftop in the middle of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, feeling feelings.

November 9, 2023

Is Starting Retinol After 40 Even Worth It?

We’ve all heard about it from our friends, seen the memes on social media, or at least read about it somewhere: Retinol is queen bee of this whole anti-aging thing.

November 2, 2023

Is This the Trick to Online Dating?

When it comes to finding love these days, we all need a strategy. At least, that’s what Jennie Young thinks.

October 26, 2023

Surviving Cancer, And Documenting the Journey

High Touch was not supposed to be solely about me or about cancer.

October 18, 2023

Why Is Making Dinner So Hard?

“I am the only one who plans and cooks in our house, and I want to cry sometimes.” In Milwaukee, Erica James* is fed up with the never-ending task of feeding her family.

October 12, 2023

Is it Possible to Resist the Pressures of the Beauty Industry?

After logging time as an editorial staffer on the Kardashian-Jenner apps, and trying her hand in beauty media, writer Jessica DeFino launched her Substack newsletter, The Unpublishable, in 2021.

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