Category: Living With It

The same herbs top every list of natural relief for hot flashes. Here is what the trials actually found, graded, with the nulls included.

Every diet page repeats the same food list. This one sorts the advice by what has actually been tested, names the one trial with numbers, and…

The odds of a major depressive episode roughly double during the menopause transition. Published guidance disagrees on what that depression looks like and what should be…

The 3am wake with no sweat and no trigger is sleep maintenance insomnia, the most common sleep complaint of the transition. What the evidence shows, and…

Waking up cold and damp rather than hot is the second half of a hot flash, and the half almost nobody writes about. Here is the…

Most perimenopause supplements are marketing. A handful have real evidence, and most of those simply correct something you are actually short of.

Weight gain in perimenopause comes mostly from aging and muscle loss, while falling estrogen decides where the fat goes. Here is what actually helps.

Night sweats are hot flashes that arrive while you are asleep, which is exactly why they do more damage than the daytime kind.