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This article was originally published in January 2019.  About a year into my first real job, as a junior editor at Toronto Life, I arrived at my performance review — a breakfast meeting scheduled for 9 a.m. — 25 minutes late. I’d been wild with nerves the night before and couldn’t sleep. At 4 a.m., […]

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From Tracy Anderson to ClassPass to Barry's Bootcamp, these live-streamed workouts might be just what you need to stay motivated during self-isolation.

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The first time Stephanie* heard about egg freezing was in one of her last law school lectures. Her professor—who she always thought was a little wacky—surprised the class when she pronounced: “Freeze your eggs! Take what’s left of your loans and just do it now.” Stephanie was appalled. Was this really the most important piece […]

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Many women spend a large part of their teens, 20s and sometimes 30s trying not to get pregnant. So, imagine the disappointment and shock that comes when you kick the pill to the curb and throw caution to the wind, only to realize that it’s a lot harder to conceive than anyone ever told you. […]

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I didn’t actually know what endometriosis was when I agreed to talk to Julianne Hough about it. I just knew that, having grown up in the dance community, Hough was someone I had admired for over a decade, and that I would take just about any opportunity to chat with the Dancing With the Stars veteran—even if […]

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There are all kinds of concerns right now about talcum powder in light of Health Canada’s recently published draft assessment, proposing the potential risks of talc to the ovaries. There was also the 2016 lawsuit filed against Johnson & Johnson for not disclosing the risks associated with talc-based products. Of course, all of this begs […]

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Respect to the wellness-guru types who never miss a 6 a.m. spin class regardless of the weather outside. But for most of us, it takes every last shred of willpower to get out of bed on a frosty winter morning. Cold weather and comfort food represent the biggest challenges to maintaining health and fitness gains. […]

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When you’re a fetus, you have six to seven million eggs. This number drops to roughly 400,000 by the time you hit puberty and continues to decrease until around age 35, when the quality and number of eggs begin to decline more rapidly. For women in their 20s, about 70 per cent of their embryos […]

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In 2015, researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill determined that the best age for a woman to freeze her eggs (in terms of egg viability) is between 31 and 33. But they also noted that a younger woman might end up wasting her money because she has more time and is […]

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It was 2003, and I was a young pup of 20 thrilled to be invited to join two slightly older editors from the university newspaper for dinner. That night, our conversation flitted over the usual topics: school politics, music we liked…. But I almost choked on my penne when one of them casually mentioned vaginas […]

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The “big C” runs in my family. Both my parents passed away at 60 from the disease (my mother from breast cancer and my father from a lung sarcoma), and my only aunt is a breast cancer survivor. While my mom and aunt hadn’t been tested for BRCA1 or BRCA2 gene mutations—which are responsible for […]

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On a Sunday morning, post-boot camp, I overheard a group of fit 30-something women crunching numbers while in line at Greenhouse Juice Co. “How many grams of carbs are in the açaí bowl?” asked one woman. “I don’t know, but I’m not meeting my protein quotient—I’ve only had 23 grams so far today,” said another. […]

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