My Menopause Blog

I’m thrilled - thrilled I say - to welcome my newest advertiser and blogger Colleen from MenoHaven on the good ship My Menopause Blog.
Way back in late December I had a talk with myself then set an intention that went something like this.
“Girlfriend, if you’re going to run an on-line business, you’ve got to get […]

I think I should start applying for menopause research grants.
This morning I found this news alert headline in my inbox. Scientific American: Walking, yoga may help during menopause.
The study involved 164 sedentary women suffering from menopausal symptoms - i.e. hot couch potatoes - and the introduction of a regular exercise program in the form of […]

My in-box offered up a menopause news story from the The Post-Bulletin today that I thought I’d share.
“The first thing that one must acknowledge about menopause is that the term technically applies to only one day in a woman’s life; the day she has lived one year without menstruating.
It’s the years that follow when symptoms […]

India is verdant ground for anyone with a camera. Everywhere I turned I saw photo opportunities - so many so that I eventually burnt out and stopped snapping pictures all together.
I have no idea what this woman is selling but there were thousands of people just like her crammed onto side-streets, sidewalks, train station platforms […]

I paid this New Dehli woman for the privledge of taking her photo. It was hard to know who all the children were but she seemed to be in charge of the very excited crew.
One of the growing concerns in India is how the longer life expectancy of today will impact the health of menopausal […]

As a younger woman, I spent several weeks traveling around India with a friend. Now as I look through my photos, I wonder how the women in this remarkable and chaotic country face menopause.
I was surprised to learn this statistic. The worldwide average for onset menopause is 51. Yet in India, the average menopausal age […]

Here’s some interesting news on the wild and wooly menopausal frontier.
The U.S. National Institute on Aging is funding a five-year research project to study how the brain might control the timing of menopause.
Apparently the lions share of menopause research currently conducted is focused on our ovaries. Which leaves me asking - did they really think […]

Despite the fact that I’m almost always decked out in orange, I am a Purple Woman. Fortunately for me, these two secondary colours look rather striking together.
But what you may wonder is a Purple Woman?
According to the lovely and very energetic Teri Tith, who happens to be the driving force behind the Purple Woman movement, […]