Category: Health & Fitness

Can menopause cause your fibroids to disappear? Find out if and how the changes in your body during menopause can be of benefit to you.… This content was originally published here.

Women with periods spend decades dealing with their bloody companions, whether that’s by maintaining a cabinet full of tampons or using birth control to help manage painful menstruation symptoms. Periods can show up during vacations, important work events, when you’re out with friends; they can be heavy, light, short, or lingering. Basically, they can range Read more…

I have shared with you my experiences how thin and worried women often have lower bone mass and tend to lose more bone during the menopausal transition. But there is still much we can learn about this connection. In fact, I have become so interested in this phenomenon that I recently began my own “Thin Read more…

Besides humans, the species presently known to experience menopause are on the whole toothed whales – belugas, narwhals, killer whales and short-finned pilot whales. The new study, by the Universities of Exeter and York and the Center for Whale Research, suggests menopause has evolved independently in three whale species. The new investigation, by the colleges of Read more…

Poor and disrupted sleep are common symptoms of menopause. Insomnia, and changes to typical sleep patterns, are often an early signal of a woman in perimenopause, who is experiencing changes to estrogen, progesterone and other that influence sleep.  So many of my patients cope with other symptoms of menopause that affect sleep. But it’s not always easy Read more…

​​​​​If you’re a woman in her 40s or 50s, you’ve probably given some thought to how perimenopause and menopause might affect your . It’s a topic that comes up in conversation with my patients quite a bit. Sleep affects every part of your life, and has an incredibly broad influence over your health. When thinking Read more…

Have you ever looked in the mirror and genuinely wondered who was staring back? Don’t worry, you’re not alone. It happens to all of us at one time or another. Life goes by and everything changes in the blink of an eye. Unfortunately, one of the most obvious and earliest indicators of these changes is Read more…

Menopause means the end of menstruation and a woman’s fertile period. If you look for information on the subject, most of what you will find talks about unpleasant symptoms and problems. In general, people see it as a difficult time in a woman’s life. The truth is that this view of menopause is actually old-fashioned and even Read more…

Hot flashes, fatigue and, of course, changes to your period. The menopause can be a trying time for many women—but for some it can have serious health implications. These are the women, researchers think, that might benefit from a study investigating diet and the timing of menopause. Researchers have linked certain foods to a delay Read more…

Carol Vorderman says the death of her mum last year and the onset of the menopause led to her having suicidal thoughts. Mark Cuthbert via Getty Images Carol Vorderman The TV star, who has two children, Katie, 26, and Cameron, 21, states that she wouldn’t have done anything because she’s a single mum. “I wouldn’t have Read more…