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Your Perimenopause Life Raft: How to Get Your Doctor to Listen

Bone-deep exhaustion, a brain that feels like it’s wrapped in cotton and wild mood swings — you’re not crazy; you’re most likely perimenopausal.  You finally bring it up to your doctor only to be met...

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What Perimenopause Taught Me About My Own Body — And Women’s Health Care

I’ve spent two decades as an OB-GYN helping women understand their bodies. I’ve sat across from countless patients describing symptoms they couldn’t quite put together, reassuring them that what they...

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Are You in Perimenopause? Take Our Quiz

Irregular periods. Sleepless nights. Fluctuating moods — maybe even some rage. Weird new body odor. Hot flashes that seem to come out of nowhere. We hate to be the ones to tell you, but these...

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Phantom Smells in Perimenopause: Why You Keep Smelling Things That Aren’t There

For Tamsen Fadal, the egg odor started five years ago. “If I picked up a glass, I smelled it,” she remembers. “If I was at a restaurant, I smelled it… if I had a fork, if I had a napkin. All the time,...

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Severe Dehydration Sidelined Dolly & Shania. Is It Happening to You?

Menopause can make you feel dry in places you never thought about before. Your skin is dry, your hair is brittle, your nails are peeling, and let’s not forget about the dreaded vaginal dryness....

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Alzheimer’s vs. Brain Fog: How to Know When Menopause Is Affecting Your Memory

At 50, Linda Stuart started forgetting things she had never had trouble remembering before. There were the small things at first — taking her medicine in the morning, remembering to defrost the meat...

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Rapid New Hair Growth or Voice Changes After Menopause May Be Red Flags

A few new chin hairs after menopause are not necessarily cause for alarm. According to Los Angeles-based OB-GYN Dr. Thaïs Aliabadi, nearly 40% of women 45 and older experience excess facial hair...

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As Estrogen Patch Shortages Worsen, Experts Explain Your HRT Alternatives

For women who rely on estrogen patches to help with hot flashes, night sweats and other menopause symptoms, discovering that a refill is unavailable can be deeply unsettling — especially when the...

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The Midlife Microdosing Boom: Why Women Are Trying Magic Mushrooms

Between writing books, hosting a podcast, running a company and parenting four kids, Marcella does a lot. But three or four times a week, the 45-year-old makes time for a special ritual. She sprinkles...

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Shania Twain, Salma Hayek and More Celebs Reveal Their Most Surprising...

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New Data Reveals More Than 1 in 3 Menopausal Women May Have Prediabetes

While speaking to Flow Space on the red carpet earlier this year, Big Mistakes actress Elizabeth Perkins shared a message for midlife women who know something feels wrong — even when their doctors...

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Starting Menopause Before 40 Spikes High Blood Pressure Risk

We know that estrogen protects the heart. When hormones drop because of menopause, midlife women are at higher risk of heart disease — an especially important fact because it’s the leading cause of...

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The ADHD Diagnosis Women Don’t Get Until Midlife Breaks Them

At first, it may look like a personal failure: the forgotten appointment, the email you cannot finish, the sudden rage over a minor inconvenience, the exhaustion that makes even basic decisions feel...

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What Japan Can Teach Us About Navigating Menopause

Menopause is a universal biological transition, but the experience of moving through it is shaped by much more than hormones. Language, diet, medical access, family structure and cultural expectations...

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Your Dentist Sees Your Menopause First

It started with vertigo. I woke up, stood up, then started walking like a drunken sailor. Within 30 minutes I had ear pressure, a migraine and total exhaustion. I’d been clenching my jaw at night for...

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Creatine Is Having a Menopause Moment. Should It?

Creatine has become one of the loudest supplements in the menopause space, with women being told it can help with muscle loss, brain fog, energy, strength and bone health. But scroll a little deeper...

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The Connection Between Hot Flashes and Brain Connectivity

For years, hot flashes were largely treated as an uncomfortable — but harmless — part of menopause. They were seen as disruptive, certainly. They could interrupt sleep, derail meetings, soak pajamas...

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Is Menopause a Neurological Transition?

You walk into the kitchen and forget why you’re there. A few hours later, you lose a word mid-sentence — not an obscure word, but a completely ordinary one. You stand there, grasping for it, suddenly...

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Sleep Coaches Are All the Rage — But Do You Actually Need One?

Sleep advice is everywhere: Keep your room cool. Stop scrolling before bed. Cut back on caffeine. Yet, plenty of women in midlife doing all the “right” things are still finding themselves wide awake...

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A Hysterectomy Can Be Lifesaving—Here’s How It Impacts Long-Term Health

Despite being one of the most common medical procedures when it comes to women’s health, there’s a lot of confusion around the hysterectomy, or the surgical removal of the uterus. There are a number...

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