Try and stay away from dairy - especially if you're a woman! It's really hard on your hormones.
Right now I don't call it the menopause, I call it men-on-pause.
There's estrogen running through my veins!
My first day as a woman and I am already having hot flushes
I had some real health complications with my HRT - hormone replacement therapy.
As female hormones decrease, they're replaced with an overwhelming urge to grow delphinium.
I feel special. Most women will have only one menopause, and they will hate it. I will have two, and when the second one comes, I will know what is coming. I am having my extra menopause as a cure. I have endometriosis.
I love the smell of estrogen in the morning.
Women have a better sense of smell than men do, and it's even sharper in the middle of their menstrual cycle, when estrogen levels peak and women are more likely to be deciding whether a man's attractive.
It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.
Any drug that alters a female's hormonal composition is a big deal. I have written about my journey with hormonal concoctions, and I assure you that they are nothing to be taken lightly.
In a way women are fleshier because of estrogen. It's hard for us to lose weight because when we get super skinny we don't ovulate. Women in camps during the Holocaust didn't menstruate and didn't ovulate. They were starving; they were terrified. Why emulate that condition? It's nonsensical to me.
Physical activity is considered a promising preventive measure against breast cancer - not only because it helps with weight control but because exercise tends to lower circulating estrogen levels.
Five hours a week of vigorous aerobic exercise can lower estrogen and progesterone exposure by about 20 per cent.
The other thing is that doctors test only the most common estrogen level. There are three kinds of estrogen in a woman but they don't test the other two because they are so rare; mine was the third kind of estrogen.
One of them is already having some menopausal symptoms. I'm working on that. I'm giving them all little lines under the eyes, trying to sort of make them age gracefully.
Menopause is your return to where you were before, when your hormone levels are the same as a pre-adolescent girl's.
I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.
