Menopause Blues: Natural Remedies for Perimenopausal Depression | The Practical Herbalist

While we’ve been studying the links between depression and fertility in women and depression throughout men’s lives, we haven’t gathered nearly as much information on how or why perimenopause and menopausal change trigger depression in a larger proportion of women or who might be more vulnerable to the bigger forms of depression, like Clinical Depression […]

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Women Who Have Migraines before Menopause May Have an Increased Risk of Developing High Blood Pressure

Women who experience migraine headaches before menopause may have an increased risk of high blood pressure later in life. This statement comes from a new study done by the American Academy of Neurology. Migraines can be debilitating and are typically experienced more often in women than men. It is most often recorded in women in […]

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Smoking risk: Early menopause increases the risk of bladder cancer

Credit: CC0 Public Domain Early menopause increases the risk of bladder cancer for smokers – this was the finding of an interdisciplinary research group, led by urologist Mohammad Abufaraj from MedUni Vienna’s Department of Urology and Division of Epidemiology and other international university hospitals, using data from 230,000 participants in the longitudinal Nurses’ Health Studies […]

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