Menopause and Wellness: Tips, Advice, and Solutions

If you think menopause is a problem for your sixties, the statistics would like a word. Picture the stock image that comes to mind when someone says menopause. Grey hair, a cardigan, a woman comfortably into her sixties. Now consider this: perimenopause, the transitional years leading up to menopause, can begin in a woman's late thirties, and for a smaller but far from rare group, symptoms start even earlier than that. The average age of menopause itself in the UK is fifty on

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Hot flushes and mood swings get all the attention. These are the symptoms nobody warns you about. Ask most women to name a menopause symptom and you'll hear the same short list: hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings, maybe brain fog if they've been paying attention lately. That list is accurate as far as it goes, but it represents a fraction of what declining and fluctuating oestrogen can actually do to a body. Oestrogen receptors exist throughout the body, in the skin, the

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The word gets a laugh at dinner parties. The condition behind it does not. Say “manopause” out loud and someone will usually smirk. It sounds like a joke, a word dreamed up for a tabloid headline rather than a genuine medical conversation. But behind the silly name sits a real, well documented biological process, and dismissing it as a punchline does a disservice to the men going through it and the partners living alongside them. The clinical term is andropause, sometimes cal

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