Category: Health & Fitness

Menopause is typically associated with the changes that occur in women, but men can go through their own version of menopause as well. It was long believed that “male menopause” was associated with older males. Symptoms include lack of energy, weakness, low libido, and weight gain mainly as a result of low testosterone. But doctors Read more…

Being underweight in your early 20s and 30s may be dangerous to your reproductive health – and beyond. According to a study published in Human Reproduction, underweight young women are 30 percent more likely to experience early menopause than normal-weight women. Nearly 80,000 women between the ages of 25 and 42 participated in the study. The researchers determined Read more…

our friends at Genneve and they have put together a series of 9 free videos talking with experts on some of menopause’s biggest challenges. This content was originally published here.

Diet may play a role in menopause onset, according to a British study that analyzed data from 914 women. Find out the two foods, in particular, that were associated with earlier and later age at menopause. This content was originally published here.

Undergoing earlier menopause is a sign of a greater burden of age-related damage and dysfunction, so it should not be surprising to see that this correlates with a greater incidence of chronic disease in the years thereafter. People with a greater burden of cell and tissue damage tend to exhibit all of the manifestations of Read more…

For women who want to avoid hormone treatment during menopause, relief from hot flushes might be found at the end of a needle, according to a small study out of the University of Denmark. Researchers found that acupuncture significantly reduces menopausal symptoms, primarily hot flushes, in a study of 70 menopausal women over six weeks Read more…

MedicalResearch.com Interview with: Allison L. Naleway, PhDSenior Investigator Associate Director, Science Programs Center for Health Research Kaiser Permanente MedicalResearch.com: What is the background for this study? Response: Reports of premature menopause after human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination have received a lot of media attention, including on social media, but these reports were based on a small Read more…

Member of the Week: Pam Lob, Author of Beyond Hot and Crazy: A Radical Guide to Living Well with Menopause Name: Pam Lob Book Title: Beyond Hot and Crazy: A Radical Guide to Living Well with Menopause Your book’s Amazon purchase link:Beyond Hot and Crazy: A Radical Guide to Living Well with Menopause What is Read more…

This post has been a long time coming… just like losing weight can be. [Reading time: 14 minutes] At the end of last year I wrote a “preview” post to this one entitled 3 Quick Tips to Kickstart Weight Loss for Over 40 Women. In it, I described three things that would set you on Read more…

In a new study, researchers found that women who experience premature menopause are almost three times more likely to develop multiple, chronic medical problems in their 60s compared to women who went through menopause at the age of 50 or 51. These are the findings from a study of 5107 women who were part of Read more…