Menopause & Women’s Health Articles for Women 40+ | Botavive
Nearly half of postmenopausal women report new facial hair, and the women with the most chin and lip growth are often the same ones losing density at the front of...
Menopause facial hair: why it arrives at the same time your scalp hair thins
Nearly half of postmenopausal women report new facial hair, and the women with the most chin and lip growth are often the same ones losing density at the front of...
Estrogen patch benefits: the 15-year trial that studied men, not women The largest randomized trial ever run on estradiol patches did not enroll a single woman. It enrolled 1,360 men...
Estrogen patch benefits: the 15-year trial that studied men, not women
Estrogen patch benefits: the 15-year trial that studied men, not women The largest randomized trial ever run on estradiol patches did not enroll a single woman. It enrolled 1,360 men...
Your weight climbs at the same steady rate before and during menopause. What changes is what that weight is made of, and where your body puts it. A June 2026...
Estrogen replacement and weight gain: what the 2026 research says about where the fat goes
Your weight climbs at the same steady rate before and during menopause. What changes is what that weight is made of, and where your body puts it. A June 2026...
A global study of 7,975 women published in Menopause on July 28, 2026 found that exhaustion, not depression or anxiety, showed the largest psychological gap between perimenopause and premenopause. The...
Perimenopause exhaustion: what a new global study of 7,975 women found
A global study of 7,975 women published in Menopause on July 28, 2026 found that exhaustion, not depression or anxiety, showed the largest psychological gap between perimenopause and premenopause. The...
You are washing your hair less, using gentler shampoo, and still finding hair in the drain and an itch you cannot reach. The scalp changes in menopause for the same...
Itchy scalp in menopause: why the itch and the shedding arrive together
You are washing your hair less, using gentler shampoo, and still finding hair in the drain and an itch you cannot reach. The scalp changes in menopause for the same...
Heavy periods, sore breasts, bloating, mood swings and worse PMS in your 40s often get labelled "estrogen dominance." The term is popular but loosely used. Here is what the evidence...
Estrogen dominance symptoms in perimenopause: what's real, what's hyped, and what the evidence supports
Heavy periods, sore breasts, bloating, mood swings and worse PMS in your 40s often get labelled "estrogen dominance." The term is popular but loosely used. Here is what the evidence...
Heartburn that arrives out of nowhere at 45 is not a new sensitivity to tomatoes. Falling estrogen loosens the valve above your stomach, slows how fast it empties, and shifts...
Perimenopause acid reflux: why heartburn arrives after 40 and what the evidence supports
Heartburn that arrives out of nowhere at 45 is not a new sensitivity to tomatoes. Falling estrogen loosens the valve above your stomach, slows how fast it empties, and shifts...