Mind & sleep
Hot flashes, broken sleep and low mood feed each other. These guides cover the psychological and behavioural treatments that menopause specialists recommend, and how to get them.
Guides in this topic
- Menopause sleep problems: why you wake up and what helps
Why menopause disrupts sleep, the habits the National Institute on Aging recommends, how CBT for insomnia works, and when to see a doctor.
- Hot flashes without hormones: which treatments work
What The Menopause Society recommends for hot flashes and night sweats if you cannot or do not want to take hormones, including CBT and clinical hypnosis.
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A seven-step plan for women over 50 based on what trials and long-term studies show: protect muscle, walk more, eat enough protein, and measure your waist.
- Menopause belly fat: what causes it and what actually reduces it
Why fat moves to the waist during the menopause transition, what long-term studies measured, and the habits with trial evidence behind them.
- Menopause symptoms: the full list and how long they last
The symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, the average age it happens, how long symptoms last, and the bleeding changes that need a doctor.
- Menopause supplements: what works, what doesn't, and what is risky
What US health agencies and The Menopause Society say about black cohosh, soy, DHEA, magnesium, calcium, vitamin D and omega-3 in menopause.
- Osteoporosis after menopause: how to protect your bones
Why bone loss speeds up after menopause, who should have a bone density test, and the food, exercise and medical steps that protect bones.