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Tinned fish has gone from condiment to star of the meal. What are the nutritional benefits for midlife women? Tinned fish has officially escaped the back of the pantry. On TikTok and Instagram, sardines, smoked mussels, oysters and other preserved seafood have become the stars of elaborate snack plates, easy lunches and even romantic dinners.

Fall is officially here! The air is crisp and you’re lounging in a cozy sweater sipping on warm apple cider. But the weather changing doesn’t mean you’re done with fresh produce — it’s just time to re-think what you shop for. Welcome to Fuel Your Flow. Every Monday, we’ll bring you some quick tips and hacks to make your meals more nutritious and delicious. Eating seasonally, or eating specific vegetables and fruits during the seasons in which they naturally grow, brings benefits beyond taste.

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Hair loss is big business these days. You can hardly scroll through Instagram without a deluge of supplement ads promising thick, luscious locks with just a few pills a day. Serums showing “real” results in less time than it takes your roots to grow out. Hair loss experts hawking lifestyle handbooks for getting your strands back. The fix is rarely that easy. And it’s always nuanced — especially if you are in midlife. A GLP-1 might help you shed pounds — and strands along with them.

In my twenties, I was introduced to hair color by a stylist who suggested a few foil highlights around my face while she trimmed my ends. It was the hair equivalent of a good first date: flirty, light, and commitment-free. Two decades later, hair color has become my old ball and chain. Thanks to the grays that keep multiplying by the year, my roots now demand a monthly refresh. It’s expensive. Each color appointment is $200 plus tip, which is actually on the modest side for New York City.

There’s big news in the health world this month, and it’s all in your head. Specifically, your brain — which, as researchers just found out, isn’t the one singular organ we all thought it was. It’s two. Yes, your brain is actually two distinct organs that develop independently from each other.

When Emily Hertzberg was diagnosed with psoriatic arthritis at 22, she didn’t have a roadmap for what came next — or even another person with the condition to talk to. “I was really scared and afraid, and I felt so alone and isolated,” Hertzberg says. So she created the kind of support system she wished she’d had.

As temperatures drop, seat warmers, heating pads and electric blankets start sounding a lot more appealing. But if you use an estrogen patch, where that heat hits matters. That’s especially relevant if you wear your patch on the upper buttocks, where some estradiol patches have been shown to absorb more effectively than on the abdomen. Heat can change how medications move through the skin.

(L-R): Stacy Sims, PhD, exercise physiologist and chief scientific advisor at Livelong Media and actress and activist Jane Fonda at the 2026 Livelong Women’s Health Summit in New York City. This weekend in New York, something extraordinary happened. For two days, a who’s who of women’s health and longevity experts took over the Hilton Hotel in midtown New York to talk about how women in midlife can be stronger, healthier and happier.

Longevity has taken over the healthcare conversation, and the goal isn’t just living longer, it’s living better, sharper, stronger for as long as possible. That shift has fueled a wave of wellness trends promising a head start on aging well. Full-body magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) has become one of the buzziest, offering scans that screen for hundreds of conditions in a single setting. It’s a compelling pitch: total-body insight before anything else goes wrong. It’s peak preventative care.