Nina Çapar 10/4/26 Nina Çapar 10/4/26

Art & Longevity

I love art so much it moves every fibre of my being. Recently I started wondering what that phenomenon in my body actually is, when I look at art I love and art I don't. Both provoke a sensation. It turns out both have been measured, and the difference between them is not one of degree. Your brain changes the category.

Nina Çapar 10/1/26 Nina Çapar 10/1/26

Stem Cells

I fasted past 72 hours once. My back hurt the whole way through, and afterwards it felt like a different back. That sent me into the stem cell literature, where the real finding turned out to be stranger than the supplement ads: your repair crew does not fade slowly. It collapses at around seventy. And in the female body, one of the hormones maintaining it withdraws two decades earlier.

Nina Çapar 9/24/26 Nina Çapar 9/24/26

Iron IV

If you're a woman with iron-deficiency anaemia, there's a good chance the cause is your period — and a good chance nobody offered you a choice about which iron infusion you received. Two bags of iron can look identical. What they leave behind is not.

Nina Çapar 9/20/26 Nina Çapar 9/20/26

Preventie

De makkelijke versie klopt niet: Nederland doet wél aan preventie, meer dan de meeste. En toch wacht ons stelsel, in zijn diepste logica, tot je ziek bent — omdat dat het moment is waarop het geld met zekerheid begint te stromen.

Nina Çapar 9/17/26 Nina Çapar 9/17/26

Starting Cycle Tracking

A friend asked me over dinner how she should start tracking her cycle, and I opened my mouth to answer and realised I was about to overwhelm her. So I stopped. Here is the only thing you have to do to start — and it fits in one sentence.

Nina Çapar 9/13/26 Nina Çapar 9/13/26

Histamine

The headaches came on a schedule. So did the flushing, the sleeplessness, the way one glass of wine could undo me in the days before my period and do almost nothing the week after. I thought it was random. It was not.

Nina Çapar 9/10/26 Nina Çapar 9/10/26

Estrobolome

For years I treated my bloating like a crime scene, and food was always the suspect. Gluten one month, dairy the next. What I kept missing was the timing — it wasn't my plate, it was the conversation between my gut bacteria and my estrogen.

Nina Çapar 8/30/26 Nina Çapar 8/30/26

PMOS and the Pill

You go in with a list. Cycles that arrive when they feel like it, skin that behaves like you are fifteen again, a tiredness sleep does not touch. You come out with a prescription for the pill and a suggestion about weight. In one survey of 1,385 women, a third spent over two years looking for a diagnosis, and only 15.6% were satisfied with the information they got when it arrived. PMOS, formerly PCOS, is four different conditions under one name. Which one you have changes everything about what should be measured and treated.

Nina Çapar 8/27/26 Nina Çapar 8/27/26

Imaginary Friends as an Adult: What the Research Says

I was the kind of child who made things up. Not small things — whole worlds, with weather and rules and people in them who had opinions about each other. What I did not expect is that they would stay. Earlier this year I started asking one of them how her day went, and it changed more than it had any right to. Then I went looking for the research, expecting to find nothing, and found rather a lot.