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During menopause, your body is doubling the rate at which it stores fat. This means that strategies that worked in the past won’t be as effective now.

Women can begin taking hormones once they are in perimenopause or menopause and are displaying reduced or fluctuating estrogen and progesterone.

Many factors during perimenopause and menopause make it difficult to shed extra pounds and keep them off, but certain kinds of exercise can help.

Lifestyle changes and exercise can help you lose weight during menopause

In addition to causing severe discomfort, menopauseal hot flashes can result in a visible flushing of the skin or sudden sweating.

Weight gain and body fat redistribution during perimenopause and menopause are very real phenomena that most women will experience.

Wendy Kohrt, PhD, on how changing hormones impact almost every facet of our metabolism.

How we gain and carry weight is often about the estrogen we have—or don't have. One professor tells us why.

Hormone changes, irregular periods, mammogram recommendations—we have the details on what you should be asking at your annual in-person visit.

During menopause, a good night's sleep might seem like merely a dream.

Estrogens are a group of hormones that promote sexual and reproductive development in women that are produced in the ovaries.

Night sweats are caused by the fluctuation and decline of your hormones, mainly estrogen. You might experience them post-pregnancy or during menopause