The Menopausal Body...
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A Guide to Endocrinology
Endocrinology is an unfamiliar area of medicine to many people but it is during the menopausal transition that you may begin to think about your hormones, mostly...
A Healthy Weight After Menopause
Menopause has long been associated and stigmatised with the notion that women will gain significant weight during this time. But while there are some changes in...
Basics of Female Reproduction
For most of us – man or woman – female reproduction is a subject of fascination and interest, whether it's a media story on a celebrity pregnancy, a personal struggle...
Better Skin During Menopause
Just as you will probably notice many changes in your body during menopause, you may also notice changes in your skin, especially the skin on your face. The...
Body Composition Changes After Menopause
Menopause has perhaps unfairly been represented as a time when weight gain is inevitable. This is not, however, quite accurate if you look at the...
Breast Density Changes from HRT
Choosing to take hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a decision most women will probably consider at some point during their menopausal transition or in their...
Breast Health After Menopause
A woman’s breasts go through a number of changes during her life, and menopause is no exception. It’s important to understand how your breast health can change and...
Cataract Risk from HRT
Cataracts refer to a common eye disorder that affects many Britons and others around the world. With our population living longer than ever before, we are frequently...
Chemotherapy and Menopause Link
While cancer brings with it many life changes, one perhaps unexpected change can be the development of menopausal symptoms after a female undergoes chemotherapy...
Common Menopause Symptoms
Even though every woman is unique in when and how she experiences menopause, there are still some symptoms and signs – such as hot flushes – that are common to a large...
Conditions Associated with Menopause
While the average woman in a westernised country can expect to reach menopause around the age of fifty-one, some women will cease having their periods and will...
Follicle Stimulating Hormone and Your Bones
For women who are going through the menopausal transition or are post-menopausal, the topic of bone density is a crucial one. Bones are...
How Childbirth Affects Menopause Timing
While much research has been done to predict exactly when a woman will reach menopause, we still have a long way to go. It remains an important...
How Ethnicity Affects Menopause
Menopause timing and symptoms are influenced by a number of different factors such as lifestyle. One new study suggests that even ethnicity could play a role by...
HRT and Kidney Stones
Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) brings many benefits but also risks to women who take it to deal with the signs and symptoms of menopause. A recent study shows...
Lung Cancer and Anti-Oestrogen Drugs
Lung cancer is most often associated with smoking cigarettes – and with good cause, as it is a leading factor in the development of lung cancer. There are, however,...
Menopause and Bone Health
During the middle-aged years, one of the key challenges and issues involves the risk of osteoporosis. In the last decade, there have been a number of studies...
Menstruation Patterns During Menopause
Menopause brings many physical and emotional changes to a woman but one of the most common and pronounced changes involve menstrual patterns – or...
Oestrogen and Vascular Disease
Oestrogen is one of those controversial hormones. Its controversy mainly lies in the fact that one study may show benefits while another shows risks. It can be...
Predicting Menopause from the Womb
Identifying when menopause occurs is an important area of research because it can help women make more informed family planning decisions. But just how early can we...
Understanding the Sex Hormones
On a daily basis, most of us don't necessarily think about hormones yet it is when we experience the significant changes and effects from hormones that we start to...
What Causes Menopause?
While a female who is experiencing menopause may know all too well what menopause can do to her body and emotions, she may wonder just what happens to set menopause in...
When Does Menopause Occur?
If you are a female who has not yet reached menopause, you may be wondering just when this 'change of life' will occur. Or perhaps you have begun to experience...
Why More Women Today Experience Early Menopause
More women today are experiencing an early menopause – and researchers are still trying to understand why this is the case. Today, more than one...
