There’s been plenty of excitement surrounding the newly updated American menopause treatment guidelines, released in October 2026 by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG). And while I’m delighted to see menopause receiving more attention, I think it’s important to ask a question: How much of this information is actually new? As a naturopathic […]
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You put your feet on the floor and it hurts. Not badly. Not enough to mention to anyone. Just enough that you take the first ten steps carefully, like someone considerably older than you are, and by the time you reach the kitchen it has mostly worn off. Your hands feel thick and stiff until […]
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October is Menopause Awareness Month, and one symptom that rarely gets talked about is pain. Maybe you’ve had the odd headache for years, but lately they come more often, last longer or hit harder. Or maybe migraines you thought you’d outgrown are back. Here’s the short answer: headaches often change during perimenopause, the years leading […]
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You had it ready. You had practised it in the car. And then the appointment ran short, and the moment passed, and you said thank you and you left, and you drove home with the same problem you arrived with. Maybe it is that sex has started to hurt, and you have quietly stopped initiating. […]
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It is 3:40 in the afternoon and you are standing at the kitchen counter eating crackers out of the box. You are not hungry in a way you can explain. You had lunch. A good lunch, actually, a big salad, the kind you would describe to someone else as healthy. And yet here you are, […]
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You are 44. Your period arrived twice this month, you woke at 3 a.m. for the fourth night running, and a friend told you that you must be in menopause. You are probably not. Perimenopause vs menopause is one of the most common points of confusion we hear from women looking for menopause and perimenopause […]
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You brought a list to your appointment. You had thought about it for weeks before you booked. Exhausted. Gaining weight without changing anything. Hair coming out in the shower. Cold all the time. Foggy. Flat in a way that is not quite sadness. Your thyroid gets checked. The result comes back normal. You are told […]
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You stand up at the end of a meeting and you do the thing you now do automatically. A quick glance behind you. A small recalibration of the day depending on the answer. You have a spare set of clothes in the car. You know which washroom on which floor. You have declined things, quietly, […]
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It is 8:52 on a Tuesday morning. You are three sentences into explaining something you know inside out, and the word is gone. Not a difficult word. An ordinary one. You talk around it, you land somewhere close enough, and the meeting moves on. Nobody noticed. You noticed. Your heart is going a little faster […]
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The invitation arrives in June. A wedding, a cottage weekend, a beach day with friends you have known for twenty years. And somewhere between saying yes and finding something to wear, a quieter thought surfaces. What happened to my body? You have not changed how you eat. If anything, you eat less carefully now than […]
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It is 3:07 a.m. You are awake, again. The room is warm. The sheets are damp. Your mind has already started running through tomorrow’s list, and the harder you try to fall back asleep, the further away it gets. By July, many women have stopped expecting anything different. Sleep has become something that happens to […]
You are standing on a patio in Burlington in the middle of July. The sun has been down for an hour. Everyone else is comfortable. And then it starts, that unmistakable rise from your chest into your neck and face, the flush, the sweat, the sudden urgent need to be somewhere cold. If you have […]
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