The jokes about women feeling moody and irritable on their periods have probably been around since there have been women and periods, but the evidence is clear– there is a strong link between hormones and mental health, not just in women, but in men as well. This fact is hardly a surprising one. Human hormones…
Menopause is something that every woman will go through at a certain point in her life, but how she gets there and what her experience of menopause is like is something that will vary greatly from person to person! Some women will naturally enter menopause at an earlier age than average, and some at a…
Menopause is something that all women eventually deal with. We all know it’s coming, but whether or not you ever actually feel ready for it is a different story! Menopause can feel pretty similar to how it felt being a young girl entering puberty for the first time– it’s a whole new world of confusing…
The symptoms of menopause are a source of dread for almost every woman as she begins to approach middle age. Hot flashes, night sweats, body changes, thin skin, vaginal dryness– the parade of unpleasantness can seem almost endless. Some level of these symptoms, unfortunately, can’t be avoided, just like some level of PMS symptoms can’t…
It’s one of the most common indicators of menopause, one of the most widely discussed, and one of the most fearfully anticipated– the dreaded hot flash. If you’re a woman approaching her menopausal years, hot flashes are probably the first thing that pops into your head when you start to sweat. The majority of women…
Your body is a complex organism full of systems that interact and affect each other in intricate ways, sometimes in ways that don’t make a lot of sense to us modern humans on the surface. We tend to think of the mind and body as two separate entities, and because stress is primarily a mental…
The human body is full of hormones. They’re the sophisticated message system that your body has in place so that all of your different organs and systems can communicate properly. Most people know about hormones in the context of their reproductive health– estrogen, testosterone, and other names will probably sound familiar to you. However, there…
There’s a reason that we associate menopause, PMS, and adolescence with moodiness. There’s a genuine link between your hormone levels and your mood or mental state. While your hormones are far from the only thing affecting your moods, their balance (or lack thereof) can lead to you feeling better, energized, and more positive, or sluggish,…