Dear Two Moons Readers, I’m Andrea, founder of The Whiny GYNie, and I’m writing to you as someone who spent decades thinking my body was a personal failure. I was the kid who started out skinny… and then puberty hit and my body took a hard left turn into a shape I didn’t recognize. I became dramatically pear-shaped, so disproportionate that I used to say it looked like two bodies sewn together at the waist. For decades, I assumed the problem was discipline. It wasn’t. It was a condition called lipedema.

As someone studying Public Health with a focus on nutrition, I’m particularly interested in how small, repeatable dietary patterns shape long-term hormonal regulation.  In this second part, I want to move from physiology to practice, the hormone-balancing foods, daily rhythms, and lifestyle changes that can support steadier energy, mood, and menstrual cycles over time.

As a current Master's in Public Health student focused on nutrition, I find that conversations about hormones come up everywhere - among fellow students, health founders, colleagues, and friends, sometimes in academic settings, sometimes in informal conversations, slowly starting to explore how lifestyle and environment shapes women’s health.

Dear Two Moons Readers, I’m Laura Donovan, a certified auriculotherapist and the founder of Solstice Ear Seeds. I didn't start Solstice because of a business idea. It started as a necessity. They say you have a thousand problems until you have a health problem, then you have just one. That became very real for our family.