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The use of menopausal hormone therapy (aka HRT or HT) to lower the risk of heart disease among postmenopausal women has been the topic of research and debate for decades. Though The Menopause Society guidelines do not recommend hormone therapy use for the prevention of cardiovascular disease, a tall...

Nocturnal hot flashes get a hard look, MHT for health preservation still up for debate, and more from the annual meeting from the society formerly known as NAMS.

By Selene Yeager

In case you missed it, The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) officially rebranded itself as The Menopause S...

Joint pain can rear its creaky head when you reach the menopause transition. Here’s how to keep moving pain free.

By Selene Yeager

Joint pain is one of those menopausal symptoms that flies under the radar…until you find yourself suddenly sidelined with achy hips, knees, hands, feet, ba...

The journey through menopause can be challenging. Here’s a checklist to help smooth the way.

By Selene Yeager

Welcome to the menopause transition, a time when you travel from premenopause to postmenopause. The transition is the result of your reproductive system shutting down shop and the ho...

Surgical menopause can be especially rough. Hormone therapy can smooth the transition. Here’s what you need to know.

By Selene Yeager

Menopause can cause more than three dozen symptoms over the course of several years. Surgical menopause can send you headlong into a host of them all at once,...

Your "vascular age" is key.

By Selene Yeager

Hormone therapy will increase your risk of heart disease! You need hormone therapy if you want to avoid heart disease! Confusion whiplash, anyone? If and/or when to start menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) is a subject of ongoing research and debate. T...

Hormone therapy can be a lifesaver for some. Others don’t want it, need it, or can’t take it. Whatever our path, we're not deficient.

By Selene Yeager

When we first started Feisty Menopause in 2020, many women were still afraid to take menopausal hormone therapy (MHT) because we’d been told it cou...

New research adds more evidence that estrogen protects against dementia, but MHT questions remain.

By Selene Yeager

“Greater lifetime estrogen exposure is generally associated with lower risk of dementia. The longer you have estrogen in your body, the stronger your brain is.”

That’s a quote...