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Paulette Szalay, 60, dieted for nearly all her life. But it took a mindset change for her to lose the weight that was slowing her down and affecting her health. “That pivotal moment was on Easter Sunday of 2022. I was close to 260 pounds. I was an educator, working on the second floor, and I could no longer walk …

You might associate menopause with a few symptoms: hot flushes, disrupted sleep and changes to your libido, for instance. But other side effects, like a frozen shoulder, tinnitus, and a burning mouth, are lesser-known side effects. Perhaps that’s because more than 90% of women were never taught about the menopause in school (even once they start noticing symptoms, University College …

Hormonal changes during menopause can drive suicidal thoughts – a crisis that healthcare services have failed to recognise or adequately address. The devastating link is laid bare in research my colleagues and I conducted recently. The study, which involved interviews with 42 women who experienced suicidal thoughts and behaviour during perimenopause or menopause, exposes a troubling pattern. Women in crisis …

Balancing your hormones during the different stages of the menopause can feel a bit like a jigsaw puzzle of medication, exercise, nutrition and lifestyle changes. But there’s one thing you can do to help manage symptoms and that’s make sure you’re eating the right amount of fiber, says Dr Lena Rebecca Larsen from More Nutrition. “As women move through midlife, …

The US Food and Drug Administration plans to make changes soon to the lengthy black box warning on many hormone replacement products for women with menopause symptoms, Commissioner Dr. Martin Makary said. “We are in serious discussions now about what to do about the black box warning, and I think you’ll hear something on it very soon,” Makary told CNN …

Miguel Sotomayor / getty images Unless you’ve been in an isolation chamber for the past few years, the words vaginal estrogen likely conjure an image of a 50-something woman fanning herself while having a hot flash. It’s true that vaginal estrogen is mainly used to help women of a certain age—think the perimenopausal and menopausal 40s and 50s—get more lubed …

My aunt has suffered some serious physical and mental health issues in her life. She lost a child at birth, and another to a tragic accident that also gravely injured her husband. She has suffered from depression, which isn’t surprising, considering. She is the kindest, sweetest human and an amazing mom to her other two children. She also works full-time …

Write to us at startingpoint@globe.com. To subscribe, sign up here. Perimenopause and menopause, once verboten topics, are now garnering more headlines than Taylor Swift’s wedding. There has never been a more socially acceptable time to be middle-aged. A quick medical primer: Perimenopause is the transition into menopause. It often starts in the mid-40s, though it can begin earlier. There’s a …

Hot flashes and sleepless nights are just some of the symptoms of perimenopause that have been disrupting Isabel Kallman’s life. At 53 years old, Kallman’s hormones naturally started to decline, and the only medication available for her is menopause hormone therapy. For women experiencing the lead-up to menopause, hormone therapy treatment can involve using estrogen to help alleviate symptoms — …

Most conversations about menopause health revolve around things like hot flashes and brain fog, but new research points to another less discussed but no less impactful change to women’s health: voice changes. All women undergo menopause, which occurs, on average, around age 52 at the point when menstruation stops occurring. In a comprehensive review of existing literature on menopause, researchers …