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Get the cataracts done before you stop driving at night

What actually tells you it's time, how to pick the lens, and why the two weeks of eye drops are harder than the fifteen minutes of surgery.

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

What the hormone therapy panic got wrong, and what it didn't

The 2002 study that scared a generation off estrogen enrolled women with an average age of 63. That detail changed everything about how this is prescribed now.

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What should I wear to this?

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

How much walking actually counts when you've got kids

The 10,000-step number came from a pedometer ad. Here's what a real walking habit looks like for someone with a job, a family and 40 spare minutes.

Names.com — The name is the first thing you sell

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BRO Seniors6 min read

The four places in your house where the fall happens

Most of the fix is a Saturday's work and under two hundred dollars, and the part almost nobody does is the one that matters.

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How often do you see your closest friends?

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The autoimmune gap is real and it starts on the X chromosome

Roughly four out of five people with an autoimmune condition are women. What's driving that, and how to get diagnosed without losing four years to it.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Your first three weeks back after surgery should feel too easy

Come back from illness or an operation without blowing it up in week three, when you finally feel good and do something stupid.

CancerDefying.com — The research, protocols and reading in one place

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GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

Your thirst gauge broke, and nobody told you

After sixty the thirst signal dulls, so you can be a quart low and feel nothing. Run fluids on a clock instead, and know which days actually put men in the hospital.

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Is your money actually in order?

Six questions. No email required, no sales pitch at the end.

GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

The six-week check isn't a pelvic floor plan

Leaking, heaviness, a core that won't fire back up. Common after birth, and none of it is something you're supposed to just live with.

GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Five health checks worth doing before you turn 30

Your twenties are the cheapest decade of your life to find a problem, and most of what's worth checking fits in one blood draw and a thirty dollar cuff.

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Rewrite my CV so it actually gets read

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GuideBRO SeniorsMarcus Vale23 Sept 20266 min

What to ask at every health check after sixty-five

The Medicare wellness visit isn't a physical, nobody owns your medication list, and most of the useful information comes from questions you ask.

Coconut.com — Tell us when. We find where the sun is.

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20267 min

Get the bone scan, then go lift something heavy

Osteoporosis has no symptoms until something breaks. The scan takes ten minutes, and the fix involves a barbell.

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GuideFitnessCal Brennan23 Sept 20265 min

Shin splints or a stress fracture, and how to tell them apart

One hurts along a stretch of bone and warms up as you run. The other hurts on a spot the size of a dime and gets worse. Learn the difference before you lose a season.

GuideCountry BroCal Brennan23 Sept 20266 min

Two lifts a week will keep the job from breaking you

You don't need a bodybuilding split. You need a back that still works at fifty-five, and about eighty minutes a week to protect it.

GermProof.com — An invisible germ barrier on your skin for hours

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Endometriosis is diagnosed in years, not appointments

The pain is real, the standard ultrasound is often clean, and the fastest way through is a record nobody can wave off.

Quiz

Does your wardrobe actually fit you?

Five questions, honestly answered, and a plan for the next fortnight.

Fitness6 min

Stretching feels great and it won't save your hamstring

BRO Seniors6 min

You need more protein at seventy than you did at forty

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Give me something to do with my kids this weekend

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GuideBRO for HerNina Castellan23 Sept 20266 min

Your fasting number and a cuff you keep by the door

Two of the most common pregnancy complications get caught by numbers, not by how you feel. Know the thresholds, buy the right cuff, and know what to say when you call.

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Fitness6 min read

Tell a groin pull from a sports hernia before you play again

Three different injuries feel identical at the top of your thigh. The self-checks that separate them, and the eight weeks that stop the rerun next season.

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