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
