Sleep well through the menopause

The kids from Grease certainly weren’t singing about steamy nights brought on by hot flushes, that’s for sure! But if the warmer weather exacerbates your sleeping woes, we’ve got some great tips to help you snooze well this summer.

Missing out on a decent night’s sleep can leave you feeling tired and irritable, but it also has long-term effects on health. ‘Increased sensitivity to pain, lower immune function, higher risk of type

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Hormones playing havoc with your weight and shape? Has a “meno-belly” appeared from nowhere? Some simple lifestyle tweaks like fasting can help, says Dr Clare Bailey Mosley. And don’t worry, you won’t be left hungry.

It’s the middle of summer and the days are long. The warm sunshine and the heat that comes with it can provide the perfect excuse to dodge our weekly fitness sessions. Just to make things doubly worse

Menopause might be talked about more these days, but that doesn’t mean we’re always getting it right . From ‘being too young’ for it to being dismissed as ‘just’ hot flushes, we’re chatting to the experts to separate fact from fiction