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Did you know that in countries and cultures where menopause and aging are NOT viewed in a negative light, women do not report being as bothered by symptoms? Moreover, the inverse can heighten the menopause experience: a systematic review of original research studies found that women with more negative attitudes toward menopause reported more symptoms […]

I am happy to report that while menopause is an inevitable fact of being born female, the suffering associated with it, is not. PSSST is the acronym I have used to highlight the five areas where making small positive changes nets you the biggest results when it comes to both long-term health and mitigating the […]

What is menopause? Menopause occurs when the ovaries no longer produce estrogen and progesterone, resulting in physiological changes to the body.  A woman—or person assigned female at birth (AFAB)—enters menopause on the day that marks the 1-year anniversary of one’s last period1.  For most, menopause will occur naturally, though menopause can be the result of […]

Some call the menopause transition adolescence in reverse. In spirit, that feels somewhat true. The actual experience, of course, is notably different: your female sex hormones are not just surging, they are also dropping, normalizing, dropping, surging, dropping, normalizing, dropping, and mostly dropping again (and not in tandem, I might add)—until they “flatline.”   How […]