It was while standing in my underwear on a machine that appeared to know more about me than most of my closest friends that I realized SHA was not interested in wellness as window dressing. Here, the body is treated as a system of signals—and many of them are shaped by one much-misunderstood force. Hormones.
For decades, hormones have been whispered about in relation to mood swings, menopause or, more often, used as a catch-all explanation for women being somehow too…

