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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Hypnotherapy for Hot Flushes

It is estimated that more than three-quarters of women will suffer from hot flushes as they go through the menopausal transition. Hot flushes can be very unc...

Are My Anger and Irritability Hormone Related?

Importance of Seeing a GP First, it's great that you went to see your GP. Many people put off seeing their doctor and it's important to see your GP when you'...

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 different s...

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 wi...

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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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