Healthspan on Her Terms with Dr. Sheri

Your go-to workouts used to work. Now they leave you wiped out for days, your belly feels different, and you are left wondering what changed. Many disciplined, high-achieving women find themselves here during perimenopause, and the cause is often physiology rather than motivation. Fluctuating estrogen and progesterone can change recovery, sleep, strength, and body composition. In this 11-minute ep...

You can do all the “healthy” things and still feel like something is shifting. Your labs may look normal. Nothing is dramatic enough to earn a diagnosis. But your sleep has changed. Your blood pressure or cholesterol is creeping up. Your body responds differently to food or exercise. Weight is harder to manage. Muscle and strength are quietly changing. That uneasy space between “everything looks f...

PCOS has a new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome, or PMOS. The condition itself did not suddenly change, but the new name finally says what women have needed clinicians to understand for years: this is bigger than ovarian “cysts,” irregular periods, or fertility. In this episode, I explain what the 2026 name change means, what it does not change, and why a diagnosis from your teens or...

What happens when you still love your partner, may still find them attractive, but sex simply does not cross your mind anymore? It can feel as though someone slowly turned down the volume on your sex drive until one day you realized it had gone completely quiet. That change can feel confusing, lonely and deeply personal. I understand that experience not only as a clinician, but as a menopausal wom...

You may know your weight, cholesterol, or A1c, but do you know your usual blood pressure? Not one rushed office reading. Your actual pattern. In this episode of Healthspan on Her Terms with Dr. Sheri, Dr. Sheri Erwin explains why blood pressure deserves more attention from the late 30s forward and how it connects with the larger midlife picture: changing hormones, disrupted sleep, insulin resistan...

“I just want to feel like myself again” can sound like a passing comment, but I hear it as important information. It usually does not mean you want your exact life or body at 28 back. It means something shifted. Sleep feels fragile. Energy has become unpredictable. Your periods changed. Anxiety crept in. Brain fog will not lift. Sex feels different. Or your body no longer responds to the strategie...

“Aging well” sounds like a compliment until you realize what people often mean: she looks younger than they expected. In this episode, we pull that idea apart and ask a question at the heart of Healthspan on Her Terms: Can we pursue healthspan without turning visible aging into another problem women are expected to fix? We explore the pressure to cover gray hair, smooth lines, and remain visibly y...

You cut out dairy. Then maybe gluten. You bought a probiotic because someone told you it would fix your gut. And you're still bloated. In this episode, Dr. Sheri breaks down five things she wants every woman to understand about her gut, without a long lesson on digestive physiology and without another supplement to add to the cabinet. She covers: Bloating is a symptom, not a diagnosis. Why th...

Your lab report says "normal," but your body says something's off. That disconnect is exactly why we're talking about iron in a more useful way than the usual anemia checklist. I'm Dr. Sheri Erwin, and I'm walking you through five things I want every woman to understand about iron status, so you can stop guessing and start having clearer, more productive conversations...

3:07 a.m. Again. You didn't plan to wake up, but here you are, staring at the ceiling while your mind replays yesterday, worries about tomorrow, and starts checking off a to-do list you never meant to think about in the middle of the night. If that sounds familiar, you're not alone. In this episode of Healthspan on Her Terms , we're exploring one of the most common questions I hear...

Is cortisol really the problem, or have we been blaming the wrong thing? If you've spent any time on social media, you've probably heard that cortisol is responsible for everything from belly fat and poor sleep to weight gain and burnout. But is that actually true? In this episode of Healthspan on Her Terms , we're separating science from social media and exploring what chronic stre...

The first time you notice it, it's hard to unsee. More hair in the shower. A thinner ponytail. A part that suddenly seems wider than it used to be. Hair loss after 40 can feel frightening, but what if it's not the problem? What if it's one of the earliest signs that something in your body has changed? In this episode of Healthspan on Her Terms , we'll explore: What "normal...

When your thyroid labs come back "normal," but you still don't feel like yourself, it's easy to wonder what you're missing. If you're dealing with fatigue, brain fog, weight gain, hair thinning, dry skin, constipation, or simply don't feel like the woman you used to be, this episode is for you. In this episode, we explore why thyroid symptoms become so confusing...

Have you ever looked at your life and thought, "I don't feel like myself anymore"... but you couldn't explain why? You're functioning. You're getting through your days. Your labs may even be "normal." But something feels different. Maybe you're exhausted even after sleeping.  Maybe you're forgetting words.  Maybe your workouts leave you sore for da...

A single scary headline from 2002 changed women’s health care for a generation and we’re still paying for it. We dig into why “hormone therapy is dangerous” became the default narrative, what the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) actually studied, and how the real clinical picture depends on timing, formulation, and delivery method. We talk through the timing hypothesis or “window of opportunity,” w...

Have you ever been told your labs are “normal” while your body insists something is off? We’re pulling apart the hormone myths that keep women stuck in that exact gap, where fatigue, brain fog, sleep problems, weight changes, mood shifts, and low libido get chalked up to stress or “just getting older.” I’m Dr. Sheri Erwin, an integrative nurse practitioner, and I want you to leave with real biolog...

Brain fog can be one of the most unsettling changes in midlife because it is hard to explain and easy for other people to dismiss. You might lose your train of thought mid-sentence, search for words that used to come instantly, or feel like your mind is moving through wet cement. I want to make this simple and validating: brain fog is common, it often comes and goes, and normal labs do not automat...

You can be “fine” on paper and still feel wrong in your body. If you’re getting through the day, exercising, eating pretty well, and your labs look normal, but you feel flat, foggy, reactive, or stuck, we want to offer a better frame: under-recovery. I’m Dr. Sheri Erwin, an integrative nurse practitioner, and I’m walking you through why this shows up so often for high-performing women in their 40s...

Anxiety can be real and still be the wrong diagnosis for what you’re feeling. If you’ve noticed a sudden shift in stress tolerance, sleep, mood, or feeling “wired” at night, we walk through a different lens: anxiety-like symptoms as stress physiology. I’m a nurse practitioner and integrative women’s health educator, and I want you to understand what your nervous system might be trying to communica...

Most women hear “HRT” and assume it’s one uniform treatment. That single label hides a crucial truth: systemic hormone therapy and local vaginal estrogen are different therapies, used for different symptoms, in different tissues, with different goals and expectations. We walk through what systemic hormones actually mean (hormones circulating in the bloodstream) and why they can be so effective for...

“Your labs are normal.” If you’ve heard that and still felt exhausted, foggy, achy, moody, or like your body is changing without an explanation, we made this for you. Normal bloodwork can be genuinely reassuring, but it can also be incomplete because standard lab panels are built to detect disease, not to optimize health span or explain early dysfunction.  We walk through the biggest places “norma...

Eating less and working out more used to work, and now it doesn’t. If that’s your reality in your 40s or 50s, I want you to hear this clearly: you’re not broken, and you’re not failing your metabolism. Your body is running a different system than it did at 25, and midlife metabolism demands a new strategy that fits perimenopause and menopause physiology. I walk through what’s changing under the ho...

Menopause maxing means taking early symptoms seriously and using the menopausal transition as a turning point toward a stronger next decade.  A lot of women feel the shift much earlier, such as fragile sleep, 2 to 4 a.m. wake-ups, anxiety, irritability, brain fog, stubborn midsection weight gain, and joints that suddenly ache and stiffen. When those signs get brushed off as “stress” or “normal agi...

Perimenopause doesn’t start the day your period stops. For many women, it’s a long, messy transition that can stretch seven to ten years and still look “normal” on the calendar, which is exactly why so many women spend their late 30s and 40s feeling off without a name for what’s happening. In this episode, we’ll clarify the difference between perimenopause and menopause , and get specific about wh...

Your 30s can feel like you’re supposed to be “fine” even when you’re tired, your sleep is shifting, and your body feels less forgiving than it used to. That quiet gap between looking okay on the outside and not feeling like yourself on the inside is exactly where healthspan work begins, because your 30s are not a maintenance decade. They’re a setup decade. I walk through what’s changing under the...