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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This means you need to take care of yourself, OP.

I'm your age and don't feel old at all, even though I have a chronic disease. It's all about getting tested for prediabetes, checking your cholesterol and blood pressure, eating clean and exercising/stretching thoughtfully (no mindless jogging that will wear your joints out). Get your mammograms, pap smears, etc. Take vitamin D - in the northern hemisphere, everyone is low on vitamin D. Or go ahead and take a full multi-vitamin. To slow skin aging, use sunscreen and retinol, if you can tolerate it.

Perimenopause might be doing a number on your mental health. There are certain days when I feel sluggish and imagine I look awful, even though I'm actually perfectly fine. Tracking your cycles with an app may help you identify if your mood synchronizes with certain moments of your cycle. A cycle tracker is useful during peri, when cycles go out of whack. Some people swear by hormone replacement therapy, others can't due to family history of cancer/blood clots.
 
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Re the Vitamin D, the northern hemisphere starts 0.1 inch above the equator. People in Morocco and Costa Rica and Sri Lanka in the northern hemisphere probably get enough sunlight.  There are also parts of the southern hemisphere where people don't get enough vitamin D in winter (New Zealand, the south of Chile, Antarctica). [/quote]

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