Shopper's Guide•Women's Health
6 things I got wrong about my mood, my energy and my cycle
Summary: For a long time I treated three different things as three different problems, and bought a product for each one. Here are the six things I got wrong — including the one that finally cleared the shelf.
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1. I thought a bad day was just a bad day
Yesterday I was completely fine. Today the smallest thing irritates me, exhausts me, or makes me want to cry — and nothing has actually changed. What I kept calling a mood was arriving on its own schedule. I only saw it once I stopped explaining each day away one at a time.
2. I treated them as three separate problems
My mood, my energy and my cycle aren't necessarily separate things. For about a year I addressed whichever one was loudest that week. That is a reasonable way to spend money and a poor way to find a pattern.
3. Which is how I ended up with five bottles
One thing for energy, another for mood, another for the cycle. A shelf that took real effort to keep up with — and the effort was the first thing to go the moment a week got busy.
4. The one I stuck with is the one I don't think about
Superbalance is a powder. It goes in water, I drink it, I go on with my day. No capsules, no pills, no counting out four different things before I've had breakfast.
5. It tastes good, and that turned out to be the point
If I'm going to take something every day, I want it to be something I actually enjoy. That sounds like a small thing next to what's in it. It's the difference between a product you finish and a product that sits in a cupboard.
6. I read the panel before I bought anything
Myo-inositol, shatavari, rhodiola rosea — every amount printed on the label and third-party tested. The shatavari is SRI-81, the clinically studied extract, and its research runs eight weeks. That's roughly how long I gave it before I decided anything either way.
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