At Menopunkapalooza, riot grrrls sang and rallied around a topic still taboo today: women’s health during midlife
The music festival Menopunkapalooza began with the ceremonial application of an estrog…
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Hormones on the brain? Everything you need to know about HRT, testosterone, melatonin and more ⊕
Cortisol is bad. Testosterone makes you aggressive. Melatonin helps you sleep. Experts bust common hormone myths
False The main puberty hormones are oestrogen and progesterone for girls and testostero…
27 days ago
Alanis Morissette, 52, reveals she relies on HRT to overcome menopause as she says she's 'embraced' getting older with 'humour' ○
The hitmaker, 52, said she's 'embraced' ageing with 'humour' after fleeing Los Angeles due to its focus on women maintaining their young looks.
59 days ago
As a perimenopausal 47-year-old woman, my libido crashed - until I started HRT. Now I date 20-somethings. I know it's not just me - my friends have wild stories too… ⊕
Two months ago, I was asked out by a 31-year-old man at the gym. Tall with biceps the size of my thighs, he was staggeringly good-looking.
60 days ago
From Mounjaro, to painkillers, heart pills, even HRT... why some drugs will NEVER work for you ⊕
Olivia Hillary was over the moon when she was prescribed Mounjaro on the NHS to control her type 2 diabetes. She had tried 'every diet going' since she began gaining weight at the age of 17.
61 days ago
Misinformation about perimenopause on social media ‘putting women at risk’ ⊖
Dangers include unintended pregnancies, taking unnecessary medication and missed diagnoses, say experts
Misinformation about perimenopause is putting women at risk of unintended pregnancies, unnecessa…
65 days ago
Menopause destroyed my sex drive. I thought HRT was a miracle cure... then I was given a devastating diagnosis two years later. This is the troubling side effect every woman needs to know ⊖
The pain was so sharp it took my breath away. One minute, I was laughing with a friend on a girls' holiday; the next, I was crying from the agony in my breasts as she hugged me.
79 days ago
I was fit and healthy after losing 5 stone and starting HRT and was enjoying life with my husband and sons. Then I had a stroke at 44. This was the only explanation doctors could come up with: NICOLA SHAW ⊕
Seeing the look of confusion pass over my five-year-old son's face was heartbreaking. 'Mummy, why don't you want to play with me?' he asked. Noah didn't understand.
Perimenopause destroyed my sex drive. I thought taking HRT would restore it, but it didn't work. Then a prescription changed my life. Here's what you must tell your doctor to get hold of it ⊖
One morning in my mid-forties, I woke up and realised something fundamental in my body had changed. I hadn't been attracted to anyone in a long time.
81 days ago
The game-changing new drugs which ease hot flushes and night sweats - without the side-effects of HRT ⊕⊕
Waljit Dhillo, a professor of endocrinology and metabolism who led early trials into this class of drug, told Good Health: 'It's like turning on a switch. Within a day or two, the flushes go away.'