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Tips on menstrual health, cycle tracking, and guides on how to use Femora.
How to Use the Femora App: A Complete Guide
Learn how to get started with Femora, track your period, log symptoms, and understand your cycle with our step-by-step guide.
Getting the Most Out of Femora's Sunshine Feature: 8 Tips for Smarter Sun
You've got the Sunshine feature - here's how to actually get more vitamin D from every minute outside, without burning. Eight practical, evidence-based tips for using real-time UV, your skin type, and the Live Activity to soak smarter.
Iron, Your Period, and Fatigue: A Woman's Guide to Low Iron
Iron deficiency is the most common nutrient shortfall in the world, and women of reproductive age carry most of it. Here are the signs worth noticing, the foods and habits that raise your iron, and the questions people search most.
Sex, Libido, and the Mental Load: The Postpartum Recovery No One Preps You For
The six-week check clears you for sex, but nobody explains the painful reality, the missing libido, the emotional readiness, or the invisible mental load. Here's an honest guide to intimacy, your body, and your relationship after birth.
How to Use Femora's Sunshine Feature: Turn Time in the Sun Into Vitamin D
Femora's Sunshine feature tracks the vitamin D you make during real sun exposure - personalized to the live UV index, your skin type, clothing, and sunscreen. Here's how to use it, step by step.
Vitamin D and Your Menstrual Cycle: What the Research Actually Shows
Vitamin D behaves more like a hormone than a vitamin, and low levels show up again and again alongside PMS, period pain, and irregular cycles. Here's what the evidence says - and what it doesn't.
How Much Sun Do You Actually Need for Vitamin D?
Ten minutes? Half an hour? It depends on the UV index, your skin tone, the season, and what you're wearing. Here's how sun exposure actually converts to vitamin D - and why more sun stops helping.
Vitamin D Deficiency in Women: Signs, Risk Factors, and What to Do
Low vitamin D is one of the most common nutrient gaps in women - and one of the quietest. Here are the signs worth noticing, the life stages and risk factors that matter, and how to fix it.
Sunscreen, the UV Index, and Vitamin D: How to Get Sun Safely
Sunlight is both your best vitamin D source and the main driver of skin aging and skin cancer. Here's how to read the UV index, what sunscreen really does to vitamin D, and a sane way to get both benefits.
What Is a Breast Self-Exam? How to Do One, and Why It Doesn't Replace Your Doctor
A breast self-exam is a simple monthly check of how your breasts look and feel, done at home with your eyes and hands. Here is the step-by-step method, the best time in your cycle to do it, which changes matter - and why self-exams are never a substitute for mammograms and regular medical care.
Can Exercise Delay Your Period? What Heavy Training Does to Your Cycle
Moderate exercise does not delay your period - but intense training without enough fuel can. Here is how energy deficits suppress ovulation, what counts as too much, and how to keep training without losing your cycle.
Which Antibiotics Affect Birth Control? A Drug-by-Drug Guide
Only rifampicin and rifabutin are proven to make hormonal birth control less effective. Here is a drug-by-drug guide to doxycycline, amoxicillin, azithromycin, metronidazole, and other common antibiotics - and what to do if you are prescribed the two that matter.