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When it comes to trying to understand whether Menopause Hormone Therapy (MHT) is right for you (and your experience), advice across the digital sphere can be confusing, to put it mildly. Unfortunately due to algorithms that favor extreme positions, advice on the subject can fall into two camps: either MHT will kill you or cure […]

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 […]