Living the high life

Three decades since a Canadian endocrinologist popularised a word for the transitional period between the onset of symptoms and your final period, the term has infiltrated the menopause conversation. But the facts remain as foggy as a frontal lobe deprived of oestrogen. As Perimenopause Awareness Month collides with the return to school, consider this a lesson in how to navigate this life stage

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Doubled over with cramps and feeling a bit ‘bleurgh’? WF discovers how the right type of movement could help to ease painful periods

Most women have suffered the misery of bladder infection (cystitis) – burning pain on passing urine, needing to rush to the loo frequently, low tummy pain, sometimes even blood in the urine. Men do ge