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The Sunday Letter

One research-led letter every Sunday. Free forever.

No subject-line tricks, no fake urgency, no supplement-affiliate-of-the-week. One long-form piece on what the modern research actually says about HRT, TRT, metabolism, sleep, cognition, money decade, peptides, or the empty-nest transition. Reply to anything — Alexander reads every response.

What you get

26
Long-form letters per year. Every Sunday morning, in your timezone. Average length ~600-1,000 words. Reading time 3-5 minutes.
300+
Peer-reviewed citations. Every claim links to its source paper. NEJM, Lancet, JAMA, Science, JBMR. You can verify everything.
0
Supplement-brand sponsorships. We never have, never will. Reader-funded model. Some affiliate links — disclosed every time, no editorial favoritism.

Recent topics

Sunday Letter #001 · Mind
The HRT story after 2024 — what changed.
~620 words · 2:50 read · 3 citations

"The 2002 WHI study scared a generation of doctors out of prescribing HRT. The average woman in that study was 63. The average woman starting HRT in real practice was — and is — 52. Eleven years matters. A lot. The 2023 reanalysis (Hodis & Mack, Climacteric) tells a completely different story…"

Sunday Letter #002 · Body
The "meno-pot" isn't your metabolism crashing. It's something else.
~700 words · 3:20 read · 5 citations

"The Pontzer 2021 Science paper — 6,421 people, ages 8 days to 95 years — found your metabolism doesn't decline from age 20 to 60. It's basically flat. So what's happening at 45 that makes the jeans tight? It's fat redistribution, not metabolic crash…"

Sunday Letter #008 · Mens Body
TRT after TRAVERSE — the cardiovascular question got answered.
~750 words · 3:30 read · 4 citations

"For 15 years the question hanging over TRT was: does it cause heart attacks? In June 2023, the TRAVERSE trial finally answered the question. 5,246 men. Hazard ratio 0.96. Non-inferior to placebo on cardiovascular events. After TRAVERSE, the cardiologist's reflex 'TRT causes heart attacks' is no longer evidence-based…"

Sunday Letter #015 · Money
Your Roth conversion year is probably this year.
~720 words · 3:20 read · 2 citations

"Somewhere in the 45-65 window, most people have exactly one year where their marginal bracket is unusually low. Converting traditional IRA to Roth during that year is worth $40-$200K over a lifetime. Most accountants don't bring it up. Here's how to find yours…"

The founder's note

After Forty Feel exists because the most underserved decade in adult media — the one between perimenopause/andropause and Medicare — deserves better than supplement-marketer fluff and 2002-era HRT panic.

The Sunday letter is the magazine's anchor. Everything else — the cover stories, the courses, the personalization quiz, the Inner Circle membership — flows from it. It's free forever for everyone.

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