Tracking
Your ring is not broken and neither are you. Almost every consumer recovery algorithm was validated on people whose hormones hold steady month to month — so in perimenopause it reads your physiology as failure. This hub is about knowing which numbers to act on.
This is the work I do professionally — I build machine learning models on women's health data. It is also the part of midlife health nobody else is explaining honestly.
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PhD in computational chemistry — I read validation studies for a living.
ML engineer in femtech, building models on exactly this kind of data.
Every device reviewed here was bought and worn, not sent for coverage.
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The pillar piece — read this one first.
What Your HRV Is Actually Telling You in Perimenopause
What heart rate variability physically measures, why it drifts downward across the menopause transition even when your training is going well, and the three situations where a red recovery score genuinely should change your session. Includes what the validation literature does and doesn't cover for women over 40.
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