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How Menopause and Midlife Affect Your Eyes eye health Feb 15, 2023

If you can read this (without corrective lenses) you’re lucky!

 

By Selene Yeager

 

Sometime after your 40th birthday, you start noticing this annoying blurry type everywhere…in phone messages, food packaging, novels, you name it, there’s this itsy-bitsy print that...

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How to Help Your Menopausal Brain brain health Feb 06, 2023

The headlines can be scary. But there’s a lot that’s in our hands.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

If you’re going through the menopause transition right now, your brain is physically changing. If you have already gone through the menopause transition and are postmenopausal, your...

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Menopause Hits Black Women Harder racial inequities Feb 01, 2023

Research shows menopause starts earlier and is more challenging for Black women than for other races and ethnicities. 

By Selene Yeager 

 

February is Black History Month in the U.S. (It’s October in the U.K. and July in Australia) — an annual celebration of...

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Review: Embr Wave 2 Promises to Put a Personal Thermostat on Your Wrist Jan 24, 2023

This high-end thermal wearable is designed to help you feel cooler or warmer, and lull you to sleep.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

Note: This review first published in early 2022. At that time, the Embr Wave was available only through Embr Labs. The device has now widened its...

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Can Cannabis Help Menopause-Related Symptoms? brain health mental health Jan 18, 2023

More menopausal women are trying marijuana for relief. Here’s what science says.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

I got my medical marijuana card because I was curious. Could a cannabis product help take the edge off the occasional bout of postmenopausal anxiety or when I’m stuck in the...

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Things I Wish I Knew About Menopause When I Was Younger training Jan 09, 2023

What I would — and wouldn’t have — done differently if I knew what I know now.

 

 By Selene Yeager

 

“What would you do differently if you knew what you know now?” As the host of Hit Play Not Pause and Content Manager for Feisty Menopause, it’s a...

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Menopause Therapies to Watch in 2023 research Jan 04, 2023

New drugs and hormonal therapies promise to make menopause better for all.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

If hot flashes and night sweats are wreaking havoc on your quality of life, you’re part of a large percentage of women that are negatively impacted by the hormonal changes that happen...

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Why 2022 Was the Year of Menopause research Dec 19, 2022

 

It’s official, menopause has gone from sidelines to spotlight. Here are the promises and the pitfalls.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

If there was any doubt that 2022 was the “year of menopause,” Oprah Winfrey put a stamp on it earlier this month when she appeared on an...

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Five 50+ Menopausal Athletes to Watch in 2023 training Dec 15, 2022

These strong, feisty women are among those blazing trails for the rest of us to follow.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

As we prepare to crack open the seal on a fresh new year, let’s take a moment to celebrate menopausal athletes (including every strong, feisty woman reading this!).

 

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The Most Kick Ass Menopause Performance Tips from 2022 Dec 06, 2022

Here are the golden nuggets of wisdom from nearly 50 episodes of Hit Play Not Pause this year.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

It’s that time of year when we look back at what we’ve learned over the past 12 months and look forward to how we’ll apply that wisdom in the year ahead....

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Why 1,200 Calories a Day is Bullsh*t nutrition Nov 29, 2022

Active menopausal women need to toss this bad advice in the trash

 

By Selene Yeager

 

Women have been indoctrinated with the 1,200-calorie-a-day diet. It’s just part of the ocean of diet culture we all swim in. Countless articles, books, and diet platforms, including Noom, Weight...

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How to Keep Sitting Time from Wrecking Your Health heart health joint health Nov 22, 2022

Prolonged inactivity is especially bad for menopausal bodies.

 

By Selene Yeager

 

 

I sit. A lot. More than eight hours a day podcasting, researching, and writing books, articles, and blogs (ironically like this one!) on an average weekday, according to my Oura ring, which...

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