Hormonal Health

Q4 burnout isn't inevitable - it's the result of ignoring your menstrual cycle. Learn how to finish the year strong with cycle-aware planning, strategic boundary-setting, and biology-based productivity. Protect your energy and thrive through the holidays with Phase.

Partner Blog: Menopause typically hits during women's peak career years (45-55), yet 3 in 5 women report symptoms that negatively impact work performance. This isn't about capability declining—it's about hormones evolving. From managing brain fog and sleep disruption to requesting workplace accommodations, navigating menopause at work requires understanding your body's new rhythms and redefining productivity on your terms. The team from 3mbrace explain all.

The end of Daylight Saving Time disrupts your circadian rhythm — and your menstrual cycle. Learn how to reduce hormone swings, sleep disruptions, and cycle symptoms during the seasonal time change with light management strategies, cycle syncing, and the Phase app. Prepare now to protect your productivity and wellbeing.

This guide explains the top five signs your hormones may be out of sync and offers science-backed strategies to support balance, including cycle tracking, nutrition tips, stress reduction, and lifestyle changes. Learn how fluctuations in estrogen, progesterone, cortisol, and other hormones affect energy, mood, digestion, cravings, and mental clarity — and how to work with your cycle to reclaim productivity and wellbeing.

Most women were taught about periods, but not about the full power of their cycle. In this clinically reviewed guide, discover 5 surprising facts about the menstrual cycle, including how it impacts strength, metabolism, mood, and even your voice 💪.

Elite athletes like Jessica Ennis and the England women’s football team have embraced cycle syncing—a method of tailoring training schedules to the phases of the menstrual cycle—to optimize performance and reduce burnout. This innovative approach involves aligning physical activities and recovery plans with hormonal fluctuations, enhancing energy, focus, and resilience. In this blog, we explore how cycle syncing principles, commonly used in professional sports, can be applied to productivity in the workplace.

Could cycle syncing be the secret to longevity? Women are burning out earlier, juggling more, and spending more of their longer lives in poor health - yet most solutions ignore the hormonal rhythms that shape female energy, cognition, and resilience. This blog explores how aligning your work with your menstrual cycle (known as cycle syncing) can reduce stress, improve productivity, and protect long-term health.

Discover how estrogen and dopamine work together to shape your mood, focus, and motivation throughout your menstrual cycle. In this expert-reviewed guide, we explore why dopamine is known as the “happy hormone,” how estrogen influences its production, and how syncing your work with your cycle can help you unlock flow, energy, and emotional balance. Plus, learn practical tips for supporting your brain chemistry across each phase of your cycle—backed by science and written for real life.

Struggling with ADHD and wondering if cycle syncing can help? This expert-reviewed guide explores how hormonal shifts impact ADHD symptoms in women—and how syncing your cycle with tools like Phase can boost focus, motivation, and emotional balance.

In this personal blog, our founder shares how her journey through burnout, postpartum challenges, and chronic health issues led to the creation of Phase. Learn how cycle syncing transformed her life, and how Phase is redefining productivity, leadership, and wellbeing for women everywhere

We spotlight ten groundbreaking FemTech companies:from hormone testing and fertility tracking to neuroscience and supplements, that we think are super interesting. Whether you're a biohacker, wellness enthusiast, or just FemTech-curious, discover the names you need to know in 2025.

Are we finally ready to talk about periods at work? This blog explores the history of corporate wellness, the persistent gender health gap, and why women’s health remains overlooked in the workplace. With statistics on absenteeism, menopause, and menstrual health, we highlight the economic impact and the urgent need for change.

This blog dives into the science of rest, revealing how strategic breaks, deep work, and cycle-based recovery can boost focus, creativity, and prevent burnout. Learn about the 7 types of rest, why top performers thrive on just four hours of deep work per day, and how to integrate intentional recovery into your routine

We explore how the brain controls focus, the impact of reproductive hormones on concentration, and practical productivity hacks you can use throughout your cycle. Learn how to optimize your time with time blocking, task batching, focus music, and more, tailored to your hormonal fluctuations.

Hormones play a crucial role in regulating energy, mood, cognition, metabolism, and overall well-being. Our latest blog, reviewed by Dr. Jess Chadwick, Neuroendocrinologist at Phase, explores how hormones function, their impact on productivity, and how aligning tasks with your menstrual cycle can optimize performance.

Menstruation is a natural process, yet widespread stigma leaves many unaware of its four phases and their impact on mood, energy, and cognition. By embracing education and digital tools, we can shift menstrual health from a taboo to an advantage for professional success.

Your hormones directly regulate cognitive function, energy availability, and information processing. Cortisol creates morning performance peaks. Reproductive hormones, thyroid hormones , insulin, cortisol - they all play a part. These systems interact constantly, which means your productivity capacity changes hour by hour and day by day based on your current hormonal state.

Unlock your productivity potential with cycle syncing! Discover how aligning your tasks with your hormonal phases can transform your work life. From boosting creativity in your follicular phase to mastering detail-oriented tasks during your luteal phase, learn how your hormones are your secret superpower. Start working with your cycle, not against it, and take charge of your success!

Make 2025 your most productive year yet by aligning your goals with your natural rhythms. In this guide, we explore how understanding your hormonal cycles can optimize productivity, well-being, and work-life balance. Learn to reflect on your past year, set SMART goals, and plan with intention.

 If you’ve ever felt like a superhero some days and a potato on others, welcome to the reality of hormone cycles. Spoiler alert: It’s not just "in your head." Your hormones play a massive role in your energy, mood, and ability to crush your to-do list. That’s where cycle syncing comes in. If we understand how our hormones ebb and flow throughout the month, we can use that knowledge as a superpower to thrive in everything from work to workouts. Forget trying to "power through" every day like it's the same — it’s time to work smarter, not harder, and embrace hormone-driven productivity.