Hot Flashes: Is It Menopause? Or Is It Your Thyroid? The summer heat can make just about anyone uncomfortable; especially the Texas summer heat we are currently experiencing. But if you notice yourself sweating more or unusually hot most of the time, maybe it’s not the heat – perhaps it’s your thyroid gland. Your thyroid Read more…
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Depression, Vasomotor Symptoms Tied to Poor Sleep in Menopause
Risk factors for poor sleep in menopause include depression and vasomotor symptoms. This content was originally published here.
Hormone therapy may ease depression linked to menopause
WEDNESDAY, Jan. 10, 2018 — A year of hormone therapy cut the risk of depression symptoms in women going through menopause and early postmenopause, new research shows. “Thirty-two percent of women randomized to treatment with a placebo experienced clinically significant depressive symptoms. But for women randomized to hormone therapy, the risk was cut nearly in Read more…
What Four People Wish They’d Done to Better Prepare for Menopause | Salty
Written by Milly D. Art by Hazel Evans. It may be less of a taboo topic these days, but menopause still has a stigma attached to it. People feel that it’s an ending; something to be ashamed of, or to resign themselves to — but why? Having spoken to friends and family members experiencing menopause, it became Read more…
How to care for your skin during menopause
By the time they reach menopause — which officially begins one year after a woman’s last period — many women think they have their lives figured out. Careers are well established; children are grown and independent; and there’s more time for leisure and self-care. Yet many women in their 40s and 50s are surprised to Read more…