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What Causes Hot Flashes, and How Long Do They Last?
What a hot flash is, the hormone shift behind it, how many years it can run, which home fixes have evidence, and when it needs a doctor.
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Hot flashes, night sweats and the body that suddenly changed the rules.
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What Is Perimenopause, and How Do I Know If I'm in It?
What the run-up to menopause is, why your periods change first, the other changes that come with it, how long it lasts, and the bleeding patterns that need a doctor.
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Why Am I So Forgetful? Menopause and Brain Fog
What the biggest study of midlife women found about the memory dip, why it tends to pass, what else can cloud your thinking, and the signs that call for a doctor.
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Does Menopause Cause Weight Gain?
What hormones change and what age, muscle and sleep change, why the weight moves to your middle, and what helps, from strength training to the hormone therapy question.
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Why Is My Mood So Low or Irritable Around Menopause?
How hormone shifts, bad sleep and hot flashes feed mood changes, what the sources say helps, and how to tell ordinary irritability from depression or anxiety that needs treatment.
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Is Menopause Hormone Therapy Safe?
What hormone therapy treats, what changed on the FDA labels in 2026, how timing, dose and form shape the risk, who should avoid it, and how to bring a clear question to your clinician.
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Does Menopause Weaken My Bones?
Why bone loss speeds up after menopause, why osteoporosis stays silent until a fracture, what exercise, calcium and vitamin D can do, and when to ask about a bone density test.
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Why Do My Joints Ache in Menopause?
Why knees, hands and hips start hurting around menopause, what falling estrogen has to do with it, what low-impact movement can do, where hormone therapy fits, and when joint pain needs a closer look.
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Why Is My Heart Racing in Perimenopause?
Why palpitations show up with hot flashes and hormone swings, which everyday triggers make them worse, what a clinician checks to be sure it's benign, and the chest pain and fainting signs that need emergency care.
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What Is Early Menopause or Premature Ovarian Insufficiency?
What it means when periods stop or turn irregular before 45 or 40, the causes from smoking to cancer treatment, why hormone replacement is advised, and why a missed period deserves more than a shrug.
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What Helps Hot Flashes Without Hormones?
What the NHS lists for women who can't or don't want hormone therapy, what the evidence says about soy, black cohosh, yoga, hypnosis and acupuncture, and the safety flags on herbal products.
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What Is Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause?
The name for the cluster of vaginal, urinary and sexual changes that follow falling estrogen, why it doesn't get better on its own, and what a 2025 urology guideline recommends from moisturizers to local vaginal estrogen.
