If you keep waking up at 3 a.m., staring at the ceiling, and mentally reorganizing your life instead of sleeping, you are not alone. Many women in midlife experience insomnia that feels random, frustrating, and strangely invisible—especially when they have been told that their labs are “normal.” At Laima, insomnia is viewed less as a stand-alone problem and more as a clue. Sleep disruption often reflects deeper shifts in stress physiology, blood sugar regulation, hormone bala

Birthdays have a way of making us reflect and look forward in the same moment. That’s what I am going to write about today – what I’ve learned in the past year and what I hope I will refine over the one to come. For a long time, I thought being a good person meant being endlessly available. Saying yes. Carrying everything. Taking care of everyone else first and convincing myself that eventually there would be time left over for me too. Like a lot of women, I got very good

I was sitting in a lecture recently when the speaker asked a question that stopped me: “Why do we wait for the ovaries to completely fail before we treat the symptoms of menopause?” Not before we diagnose it. Before we treat it. That line has been echoing in my head ever since, because it captures what so many women experience in midlife care. We are, quite literally, telling women to wait until an organ system has fully shut down—until 12 consecutive months without a period—

This space is something I have wanted to create for a long time. The Laima blog will be an ongoing place to share thoughts, education, and deeper conversations around health—everything from hormones and metabolism to gut health, inflammation, and the many interconnected factors that shape how we feel day to day. More than anything, it’s a place to slow down and explore the why behind what’s happening in the body. Because health is rarely as simple as it’s made to seem. Why I