Go with the flow: 2019 is all about our hormone health

If 2018 was the year of the gut, 2019 is all about our hormone health — and how we handle it says Ciara McDonnell.

The arrival of my period took longer than I would have liked. Aged 12 and primed by an array of Judy Blume novels and a near psychopathic obsession with what the Americans used for sanitary-ware (a belt that was available in two colours, onto which you looped a sanitary pad), I was ready for the arrival of my womanhood.