Menopause Expert: A Comprehensive Guide to the Menopause

You'll find everything you need to understand and navigate menopause with confidence, from expert insights on your changing body and mental wellbeing to practical advice on treatments, relationships, and alternative approaches. Menopause Expert is here to help.

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Basics of Menopause Stages

One of the common misuses of the word 'menopause' is that it is used to indicate all of the physical, mental and emotional health changes that a woman experi...

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, mo...

Menopausal Challenges in Reaching Orgasm

There is a mistaken belief among many people – both men and women – that when a woman reaches menopause she is no longer desirable and her libido and abi...

Botanical Oestrogens for Menopause

Treating both the symptoms and effects of menopause has involved a close look at oestrogen therapies – both synthetic and natural ones. Previous research o...

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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 in twenty...

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 area because...

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,...

Risks of Early Menopause

Although most women will, on average, experience menopause around the age of fifty, some women will go through early menopause. There are a number of reasons...

Antidepressants and Hot Flushes

Hot flushes are a frustrating part of menopause for many women. As one of the most common symptoms experienced leading up to menopause and after, finding new...

Hot Flushes and Breast Cancer Risk

Hot flushes are one of the most common symptoms of menopause. Many treatments are available – both drug and alternative – with the aim of relieving women...

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...

Hormone Therapy and Doctor's Mistakes

Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has received a lot of media attention over the last decade. Confusing reports relate primarily to the many different studie...

HRT and Ovarian Cancer

Ovarian cancer remains a rare form of cancer but it is still a very deadly one. This is one of many reasons why finding out the factors that contribute to it...

Understanding Your Periods Before Menopause

For some women, changes to their periods are one of the first signs of menopause that they experience. The change can be to the heaviness of their flow or th...

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