The idea that you need to boost your estrogen as you move through perimenopause and menopause is the biggest myth of midlife. Find out why!

Last month, The Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) published the findings of an 18-year clinical trial, which investigated the safety of hormone therapies. If you consult with your doctor about perimenoapuse and menopause in the near future, the findings of this trial will likely influence what she tells you. For decades, modern medicine has encouraged women to take hormone replacement therapy at midlife, not only to relieve perimenopause and menopause symptom

“Have you any notion how many books are written about women in the course of one year? Have you any notion how many are written by men? Are you aware that you are, perhaps, the most discussed animal in the universe?” ― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own (1929) “It is the untreated [menopausal] woman – the prematurely ageing castrate – that is unnatural…. The mere fact that such women castrates are prevalent – and getting more so every day as the world fills up with older wom

Always on the lookout for perimenopause news, last week I was intrigued to discover that an expert on women’s health, who’s also frequently in the media and a Board Certified Gynecologist, had released a new book on perimenopause and menopause. Right from the introduction, she writes about the need for scientific evidence (unfortunately, in the areas of perimenopause and menopause, that usually means research funded by drug companies); she compares understanding a woman’s bod