Perimenopause Power: Navigating your hormones on the journey to menopause

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Perimenopause Power is a handbook that exudes calm positivity and makes sense of complex physiological processes in an easy-to-understand manner, helping women to understand what the hell's going on with them and provide instruction on what can be done to improve their experience of the dreaded "change.

Perimenopause Power by Maisie Hill | Waterstones

All this makes the book a useful and informative reference source to come back to and dip in and out of as needed.And here’s a another, more personal one: do you know the average length of your cycle (if you still have periods)? Increased risk of stroke or heart attack was only seen in the women who had been postmenopausal for 20 or more years; 70 per cent of them were very overweight or obese. If your doctor suggests HRT, the question of whether or not to take it can be a fraught one, whether from a notion that menopause is a natural process that should run its course or concerns over its safety.

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But I am very thrilled to have a studio space to escape to and focus on my work because that’s what this phase of my cycle is all about. And this is why we focus on all of these things so much inside The Flow Collective and here on the podcast too, because this shit has to be addressed if we want to support our hormones and have a positive experience of life, especially once we’re in perimenopause. I’m autistic and kind of we’ve been figuring that out together now that we know that’s what’s going on. I’m now helping Dr Newson launch The Menopause Charity, and it turns out the safer body-identical HRT isn’t available in all parts of Britain.In my late 40s I started getting erratic heartbeats in the night – sudden, fast, panicky pounding in my chest, for no reason at all.

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For women aged 45 and up, blood tests in themselves aren’t actually a reliable way of determining whether someone is perimenopausal because hormones are released in pulses and vary from cycle to cycle. There are so many reasons to join, and it’s where I teach you all the tools at my disposal to help you improve your cycle and use it to get what you want out of life. Many women find they wake up several times each night drenched with sweat and need to change their bed clothes and bed linen. There was also a personal motivation, about to turn 40, and “starting to do the dance,” as she puts it, she wanted to arm herself with as much knowledge as she could as she “tiptoes into the menopause. On the other side, we’ll be different – perhaps more focused on what’s most important to us and almost certainly calmer.In that week, every American woman went to her cabinet and took out her hormone prescription and flushed it down the toilet. Oestrogen was the oil I needed in my engine, but a year later, I got a bad batch of the compounded hormone lozenges, which turned out to be from an unregulated pharmacy, and ended up having bleeding and then cervical and uterine biopsies.

Perimenopause: Symptoms and Treatment | Patient

Scientific literature refers to it as a time we can have lasting influence over our future, and HRT not only helps to manage symptoms in the here and now, but it can also help fend off everything from osteoporosis and cardiovascular disease to neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s,” she says. Since perimenopause arrives at a time of life when many different events are at play – and because symptoms are so numerous – it can be misdiagnosed by GPs and other healthcare professionals. The aim was to figure out if this type of hormone treatment could help protect these women from heart disease and other illnesses.

And yet, fearing the increased risk of cancer, stroke and blood clots that we’ve long heard comes with a hormone therapy regimen, we’ve gone rogue.