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Fat can be your friend (it's true!). But deep belly fat (which you can't even see) is a health foe and it rises with menopause. Here's what helps keep belly fat at bay.

By Selene Yeager

 *** This article was originally posted in March of 2022. It has since been updated. ***

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Athletics and hormone decline can set the stage for dental disease. Here’s how to save your teeth.

By Selene Yeager 

Endurance sports are good for your heart and mind, but man they can wreak havoc on your teeth, and menopause can make the situation for your pearly whites even...

Foot pain becomes more common during the menopause transition. Here’s how to avoid aching, painful feet.

By Selene Yeager

Bunions and bone spurs and heel pain. Oh my, midlife can usher in a host of conditions that seem to conspire to (literally) knock us off our feet. Foot...

by Selene Yeager

Our first Feisty Menopause Performance Retreat blew me away…and in some very unexpected ways.

We descended on Lake Nona ready to learn. A dozen women confident enough in who they are to be fully open to who they could become. Women who have embraced menopause as a time to...

Low on mojo? What fires you up can change in menopause and midlife, but it doesn’t mean the flame is gone. It just needs a different fan.

Selene Yeager

Dragging yourself through the motions more often than not these days? You’re not alone. The physical and psychological...

Can these fungi help with mood swings, brain fog, and other menopause symptoms? Science is trying to find out.

By Selene Yeager

Note: This article was first published in February 2022. Since then, new research and CounsumerLab recommendations have been published. This article has...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...