THE HEALTH EDIT
How Gen X Women Are Resetting the Script on Midlife
Health has been sold as rules, restriction, and hustle. This book rejects that script.
The Health Edit reframes health as creative power.
The foundation that fuels clarity, resilience, strength, and what you want to build next.
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THE PROBLEM ISN’T YOU.
IT’S THE SCRIPT.
You can be doing everything “right” and still not feel like yourself.
More tired than you should be. Foggy. Wired but flat. Inflamed. Gaining weight without changing anything. Sleeping, but never restoring.
This isn’t a failure of discipline or effort.
It’s physiology colliding with pressure and a culture that turned health into another job to manage, optimise, and perform.
Edit first. Then redesign.
Most people try to fix everything at once. That creates overwhelm, stress, and inconsistency.
A Health Edit is different.
It’s a deliberate decision to focus on one domain of health at a time, the one with the greatest leverage right now, so you can build momentum that compounds.
Because health does not change through perfection.
It changes through strategic focus.
MANIFESTO & METHOD
The Health Edit combines clinical experience with cultural critique. It gives you:
A framework to interpret what your symptoms are actually signalling
A way to choose the right focus area instead of guessing
The One Essential Thing in each domain to start creating measurable change
A review and refine loop so your health becomes a rhythm, not a restart
The 10 domains that shape how you feel and how you age.
These domains are not silos. They interact.
When you make the right edit, the ripple travels.
Do the Diagnostic to learn more about where to focus.
WHO THIS IS FOR
This book is for Gen X women who want a smarter way to live well.
If you’re done with the noise, the moralised diets, and the endless optimisation, this is for you.
Not to “fix” yourself.
To build a body and life that can hold what you want next.
WRITTEN BY A CLINICIAN WHO THINKS LIKE A STRATEGIST.
I’m Susan Hunter, a Melbourne-based nutritionist, naturopath and health strategist with 20 years in clinical practice.
I’ve spent two decades watching intelligent women blame themselves for outcomes that were never about willpower.
This book is the distillation of what actually works when you want clarity, momentum, and long-term resilience.
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