Deep dives into individual perimenopause symptoms — what causes them and what to do.
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Missed exits, slower reaction times, forgetting a familiar route: perimenopausal brain fog can affect driving safety in ways almost nobody talks about openly. Here is what is happening and what actually helps.
Conditions like rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, and psoriasis can flare or even first appear during perimenopause. Here is the immune-hormone link doctors often miss, and what to do about it.
Falling desire in perimenopause is rarely about one hormone alone. Here is how oestrogen and testosterone interact to affect libido, and what genuinely helps before considering testosterone therapy.
For women with ADHD, perimenopause often arrives as a sudden collapse of coping strategies that worked for decades. Here is the dopamine-oestrogen link behind it, and what actually helps.
The scale might say the same number, but your body feels different, softer, less strong, differently shaped. Here's what's actually happening to muscle and fat distribution in perimenopause, and what helps.
If you already know why you're waking at 3am, here's the practical part: what to do in the moment, what to change during the day, and which remedies are worth trying first.
So many perimenopausal women report waking at almost exactly the same time each night that it can't be a coincidence. Here's what's actually happening in the body at that hour, and why it isn't just stress.
Your haemoglobin came back normal, but you're still exhausted. Low ferritin, your body's iron storage marker, is a common and frequently overlooked cause of perimenopausal fatigue.
One month you feel almost like yourself, the next it all comes back at once. Here's the hormonal reason perimenopause symptoms fluctuate instead of steadily worsening.
Light bleeding or spotting after sex is common in perimenopause and usually has a simple hormonal explanation, but a few causes need a doctor's attention. Here's how to tell the difference.