Women Menopause

Filling a gaping hole in menopause care, everything a woman needs to know to thrive during her hormonal transition and beyond, as well as the tools to help her take charge of her health at this pivotal life stage—by the bestselling author of The Galveston Diet.

For years, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) was the medically approved way to alleviate menopausal symptoms (ranging from hot flushes to brain fog) and reduce the risk of heart disease, Alzheimer's, and osteoporosis. But when a large study by the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) announced, with national fanfare, that women taking HRT had an increased risk of breast cancer, women were scared off, and the treatment was abandoned.

A 2022 study from SWAN (Study of Women's Health Across the Nation) showed that Black Women reach menopause almost a year earlier than White women, and often have worse symptoms. As well as the hot flashes, trouble sleeping, and hair thinning, Black Women were found to be less likely to receive adequate support and treatments.

How to Menopause answers all the questions you’ve been too nervous to ask, and brings you into a conversation with millions of other women. Together, we can embrace a stronger, sexier self at every stage of midlife–from perimenopause through menopause and into our "bolden" years.

Menopause and perimenopause are still a black box to most doctors, leaving patients exasperated as they grapple with symptoms ranging from hot flashes to insomnia to brain fog. As a leading neuroscientist and women’s brain health specialist, Dr. Mosconi unravels these mysteries by revealing how menopause doesn’t just impact the ovaries—it’s a hormonal show in which the brain takes center stage.

THE FITNESS BOOK FOR WOMEN WHO AREN'T BUYING THE "GENTLE YOGA & GIVE UP" APPROACH TO AGING Society expects you to get weaker with age. This book expects you to get stronger out of spite. Let's be honest: most fitness advice for women over 50 basically amounts to "Don't fall and break a hip, dear." As if the moment we hit menopause, we should trade our dumbbells for knitting needles and accept our new role as fragile decorative objects. Louise Harper calls BS on all of that. In Fitness Over 50 for Women: Building Muscle After Menopause, Harper delivers the no-nonsense truth: the strongest ...

Restore your health and wellbeing with a powerful combination of fasting and holistic lifestyle practices. Are you ready to feel empowered and take control of your health and wellness, even if you’re over 50? Do you want to lose weight, increase your stamina, and look years younger? You might have tried other weight loss programs, but they only made you think more about food because you felt restricted… causing you to retreat to your old unhealthy eating habits. Don’t lose hope… there’s a type of lifestyle (yes, not a diet) that will allow you to lose weight without having to ...

The Menopause Metabolism Solution is the science-backed, refreshingly honest, and often hilarious guide to one of the most frustrating—and least understood—transitions in a woman’s life. If weight gain, energy crashes, poor sleep, or mood swings have suddenly appeared in midlife, you’re not broken—your metabolism has changed. And it’s not your fault. This book delivers a revolutionary message: the metabolic changes of perimenopause and menopause aren’t personal failures—they’re biological adaptations to shifting hormones, especially estrogen. Rather than pushing women to ...

Join us for an enlightening discussion with Susun Weed, the esteemed author of New Menopausal Years: The Wise Woman Way, hailed as one of the best books on navigating menopause. Explore herbal solutions for a myriad of challenges that accompany this transformative phase, including osteoporosis, hot flashes, mood swings, fatigue, flooding, fibroids, low libido, incontinence, anxiety, and depression.

Menopause doesn’t have to mean weight gain, fatigue, and frustration. This practical and compassionate guide reveals how intermittent fasting can help you lose stubborn pounds, regain energy, and rebalance your hormones—without restrictive dieting or calorie counting. If you're tired of waking up exhausted, struggling with unwanted weight gain, or feeling like nothing works anymore—this book is for you. You’re not failing. Your body is simply changing. And with the right tools, you can work with those changes, not against them.

A Paranormal Women’s Fiction mystery filled with sarcasm and no ducks to give for lousy ex-husbands who think they can have the best of both worlds. Newly separated Rebecca needs to get her life together, and fast. The day she returned from the hospital her husband packed up his stuff and left her with divorce papers. She decides the best place to rebuild her life is the place she loves most, her hometown on Shadow Island. The hot flashes of menopause have left her with an extra gift – telepathy. Unfortunately, it can be a real pain in the tuchus. There are some things – okay a lot of...

What if you don't need pills, patches or creams to reach perimenopause and menopause symptom relief? What if you already have everything you need? In this groundbreaking book, you will discover how to completely transform your experience of midlife change. Natural symptom relief, an inner sense of well-being, and feeling like your true self once more are all on offer. Award-winning author and transformative coach Tania Elfersy shares how she witnessed all her physical and emotional perimenopause symptoms disappear within days of a profound insight.

Weight loss after 40 isn't just different — it's a whole new game. Your body, metabolism, hormones, and lifestyle all shift in powerful ways. What worked in your 20s can feel like it has no effect now, leaving you frustrated and stuck. But here’s the truth: your body isn’t broken, it’s just operating under new rules. This book is your cheat code to understanding those rules and mastering them.

Menopause is usually not considered funny at all, but if we can find the humor in our experiences, we can turn depression into happiness, and experience a different road that allows us to grow into the seasoned women we were meant to be. This book explores funny menopause stories that will make you laugh and cry at the same time. It discusses the many symptoms of menopause and turns it into something humorous. It helps women remember they are not alone in this journey, and that menopause is normal. When we laugh in the face of adversity, something wonderful happens. We start to realize it ...

You’re starting an exciting new chapter… and intermittent fasting is the key to unlocking energy, a balanced body, and lifelong wellness. Do you feel like your best days of fitness and high energy levels are behind you? It’s common to feel this way after 50 when metabolism slows, hormones shift, and weight gain seems inevitable.Maybe you wake up tired, feeling like your body is working against you. Perhaps you’ve tried every diet imaginable, but nothing seems to work anymore. You might think there’s no way back to the health and confidence you had in your younger years—and ...

Embark on an enlightening journey through menopause with 'A Black Woman's Guide to Menopause' - a comprehensive and insightful book tailored specifically for Black women. This guide offers a unique blend of medical expertise, cultural understanding, and personal empowerment, making it an indispensable resource for navigating this significant life transition.

As if from out of nowhere, you experience symptoms such as sleepless nights, irritable moods, unexplained anxiety, trouble retrieving words, and hot flashes. Your weight won't budge, no matter how hard you try. How great would it feel to wake up feeling rested; have a brain that is calm, joyful, and clear; and to finally lose weight in an easy and sustainable way? The good news is that there is a way for you to do all of this and more.

She never saw it coming. The tears. The silence. The ache of feeling invisible in her own marriage. Amanda had always been strong—a faithful wife, devoted mom, and steady believer. But when menopause slammed into her life, everything changed. Her body betrayed her. Her emotions scattered. And the man who once made her laugh now felt like a stranger. Menopause didn’t just shake her hormones. It shook her identity. Unspoken Storms is a heart-wrenching yet hope-filled Christian novella about one woman’s journey through the chaos of menopause and the slow fade of her marriage—and how ...

Strong skeletal muscle drives healthy longevity yet too often women in particular neglect this important measure of fitness. Indeed, more than 70% of women experience musculoskeletal symptoms like joint pain, muscle loss, and reduced bone density as they enter perimenopause and menopause. These symptoms—what Dr. Vonda Wright refers to as the "musculoskeletal syndrome of menopause"—can often set us up for osteoporosis, osteopenia, broken bones, increasingly limited mobility, and reduced independence later in life. That trend stops now.

Looking for an in-depth guide on how to become an advocate for your thyroid health? Studies in the UK report an annual incidence of primary hypothyroidism in 3.5 and 0.6 per 1000 women and men, respectively. Some 3% of the UK population is currently taking long-term therapies for thyroid healing. Of these patients, 40 to 48% are being over or undertreated. Yet despite the widespread and alarming occurrence of hypothyroidism, there is still a wide gap in information on hypothyroidism, Hashimoto’s and other thyroid problems. Take charge of your thyroid healing with Rachel Hill’s Be Your ...