This article contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases, at no extra cost to you. Most advice on how to choose a magnesium supplement starts with the form. Glycinate for sleep, malate for energy, threonate for the brain. I bought my first bottle that way. I picked Thorne’s CitraMate because … Read more
Mention HRT to a group of women and the room splits into two camps. One says absolutely not, because of breast cancer. The other says that’s old news, everyone’s on it now. I didn’t know which side to believe, so I started digging into the HRT for perimenopause question myself. Turns out they’re both a … Read more
“Hormone balance.” That phrase kept showing up as I started reading about menopause, and it bugged me. What exactly in my body is a supplement supposed to be balancing? I’m the type who researches before I buy, so I went looking for an answer before I’d bought a single bottle labeled “menopause supplement.” Here’s the … Read more
For months, I didn’t think what I was going through had anything to do with perimenopause. My periods were still regular. There’d been no single dramatic moment to point to and say, this is it. So I told myself I still had time. Looking back, that logic was too simple. None of the changes I’d … Read more
Every morning while my coffee brews, I sit for five minutes and do nothing. It started as a way to drink it before it went cold. At some point, that stretch became the clearest five minutes of my whole day. Every time I see advice like “meditate for 30 minutes” or “start a yoga routine,” … Read more
I wrote a while back about why midlife stress hits differently than it used to. One question kept following me around while I worked on that piece: was some of what I was feeling less about age or circumstances, and more about something as basic as nutrients? So I dug into four contenders: omega-3, vitamin … Read more
A new meta-analysis found that creatine after menopause was associated with an average 0.37 kg increase in lean mass and a 7.5 kg greater improvement in leg-press strength compared with placebo. The review, published in the Journal of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, pooled data from 608 postmenopausal women across studies lasting 12 to … Read more
A cohort study of 38,283 women looked at weight gain during menopause and found that low-insulinemic and Planetary Health dietary patterns were linked to the best outcomes. The low-insulinemic pattern showed the largest association with less annual weight gain, about a quarter-kilogram less per year than women with the lowest adherence. The Planetary Health Diet … Read more