Lifestyle

If you have been told your pain is stress or ageing while your scans are clear, here is the evidence that pain without visible damage is real and recognised.

Brain Fog Explained, What Cognition Actually Means Meta Description: Attention, concentration, memory, all different things happening in different parts of the brain. Here is what each term actually means

Brain fog in perimenopause is real, measurable and usually temporary. Here is what is happening in your brain, and when it settles.

A glass of wine helps you fall asleep, then wakes you at 2am. Here is what alcohol does to sleep in perimenopause and the experiment worth doing

Menopause shifts your internal body clock by about an hour. Most women reach for melatonin. Here is why that is unlikely to help and what the evidence actually supports.

Hot flushes and night sweats treatment: MHT, non-hormonal medications, the newer NK3 drugs, and mind-body options. What the evidence says, and what to ask your GP.

Hormone therapy after 60 is not one conversation. Vaginal oestrogen has no age cutoff. Systemic MHT depends on vessels and overall health, not birthday.

"You are too young." "Your periods are normal." "Your bloods are fine." Why none of these rule out perimenopause — and what the current guidance actually says.

Hot flushes are linked to markers of cardiovascular health. Here is what the research actually shows — and why frequent hot flushes are worth a conversation, not a worry.

Waking at 3am and can't get back to sleep? You are not going crazy — and it is not just stress. This is one of the most common and least-talked-about symptoms of perimenopause. Here's the hormonal explanation, and five things you can try tonight.