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Perimenopause, written the way you'd actually want to read it.
Evidence-led, expert-reviewed and never bleak. Sleep, body, mind, sex, work, family and everything else this stage touches.
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The 4am wake-up, explained
You fall asleep fine. You wake at four, wide awake, for no reason you can name. Here's what's actually happening — and what has evidence behind it.
Same food, same steps, different body
Body composition changes in perimenopause even when nothing about your habits does. That isn't a willpower failure — it's physiology, and there are two levers that genuinely move it.
The word that left: brain fog and confidence
Losing a word mid-sentence is common in perimenopause. The lasting damage is usually not the fog itself — it's what women conclude about themselves afterwards.
Desire changed. Then it changed again.
Libido in midlife is rarely one dial going down. Comfort, sleep, context and relationship all move it.
The confidence dip nobody puts on a symptom list
The workplace impact of perimenopause is rarely about capability. It's about a temporary loss of trust in yourself, arriving exactly when your career is at its most senior.
Two sets of hormones, one kitchen, 7.40am
Perimenopause and a teenager's adolescence often land in the same house at the same time.
Expert answers: do I need a blood test?
One of the most common questions we're asked — answered by a GP and menopause specialist.
Posteri stories: I left a group chat of eleven years
A member on what happens when your tolerance for nonsense quietly disappears.
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