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Science shows the general guidelines don’t cut it for postmenopausal women.

By Selene Yeager

Postmenopausal women may not actually make muscle with moderate strength training, according to a new study. When it comes to making muscle, active menopausal women also don’t respond to the general ...

Deliberate cold exposure through swimming, plunging, or showering may ease symptoms and improve mood.

By Selene Yeager

We live in a world where it can be exceedingly difficult to chill out. That’s doubly true for menopausal women, who can have a harder time balancing their autonomic nervous ...

As our hormones change so does the shape, size, and feeling of our breasts. Here’s what active women should know.

By Selene Yeager

As active women, we have a unique relationship with our breasts, as we can spend many years post-puberty (and then again perhaps post-pregnancy) finding the most...

Make muscle, get strong, prioritize your sleep, and more in 2024

By Selene Yeager

The holidays are behind us, the new year stretches out in front of us. We’re back to work, ready to dig into new goals. We don’t really buy into “New Year, New You!”...but we do believe in New Year, Be Good to ...

Community and camaraderie make this time of life happier, healthier, and just plain better.

By Selene Yeager

When it comes to health and happiness during and beyond the menopause transition, we hear a lot about hormone therapy, proper nutrition, exercise, adaptogens, sleep…the list goes on. ...

Many of us have felt these emotions. But why?

By Selene Yeager

Shame is defined at dictionary.com as “a painful feeling of humiliation or distress caused by the consciousness of wrong or foolish behavior.” Stigma? That’s “a mark of disgrace associated with a particular circumstance, quali...

Making and maintaining muscle is key for metabolic health through and beyond menopause. The right ingredients can help.

By Selene Yeager

This post is sponsored by our Hit Play Not Pause sponsor Amino Co. The scientific evidence presented is the product of my own research and the personal tak...

Nocturnal hot flashes get a hard look, MHT for health preservation still up for debate, and more from the annual meeting from the society formerly known as NAMS.

By Selene Yeager

In case you missed it, The North American Menopause Society (NAMS) officially rebranded itself as The Menopause S...

Nobody knows when it will start or how long it will be. But we do know it’s not the end. Here are some tools to smooth out the ride.

By Selene Yeager

Menopause has burst out of the shadows and into the mainstream. It’s in the NY Times. It’s on Oprah. It’s on during the Super Bowl.

Everyw...

What could you do if you actually believed it was possible?

By Selene Yeager 

Figure skater Jen McNutt, at the age of 48 after a 26-year hiatus, not only got back to doing double jumps on the ice, but is now trying for triples, because she realized the only thing holding her back was her own...

It’s not your imagination. Menopausal anxiety is a thing.

By Selene Yeager

It started in the middle of the night, generally around 3 a.m. I’d wake with a jolt, heart racing, my mind swirling with worries about my family and the future. Sometimes I’d be soaking wet, rivulets of sweat tricklin...

Menopause is making headlines, but far too many are still suffering in silence.

By Selene Yeager

We talk about menopause all the time here at Feisty Menopause. It’s right in our name, after all. Plenty of other people are talking about it too, including women with mighty big megaphones like ...