Sophora Editorial Hormone Specialist: What Do They Do and When Might You Need One? | Sophora SOPHORA. Women’s health, clearly explained. Hormone Specialist Guide Hormone Specialist: What Do They Do and When Might You Need One? The phrase sounds simple. The healthcare system is not always quite so obliging. Here is who may help, when specialist care … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published August 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 The decision to take B12 felt straightforward right up until the moment of actually choosing one. There are multiple forms of B12 with names from a chemistry textbook. Several delivery methods with competing claims. Doses from 500mcg to 5000mcg … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published August 2026 · Last reviewed August 2026 It has been three weeks. Or maybe four. The bottle was started with reasonable optimism and the understanding that supplements take time. Fair enough. Every good afternoon: “possibly the B12.” Every average one: “maybe needs more time.” This is … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 The answer most women get is “sometime in your late 40s.” The answer the research gives is more complicated, more variable, and considerably more useful. Perimenopause starts at different times in different women, the first signs arrive before … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You are tired. You have been tired for months. But tired is not the right word for it because tired implies that sleep would fix it, and sleep is not cooperating. You fall asleep fine and then wake … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Perimenopause used to be understood as a transition that happened to women in their late 40s. Then they had a few hot flushes. Then periods stopped. That was the shape of it. What the research of the last … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 If you are reading this, you are already doing the right thing. Most men do not look this up. Most men wait until the situation has deteriorated to the point where they cannot ignore it, and then they … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 At some point the sex stopped. Assuming all other factors constant, yes menopause based sexless marriage can happen if left unmanaged. It may have tapered off gradually, or it may have gradually become the subject nobody raises anymore. … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 The research on creatine for women in perimenopause is convincing. The list of questions before starting is also quite long. Will it make the urinary urgency worse? Will the scale go up? Does it have calories? What happens if … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Creatine used to be the thing on the shelf at the gym supplement store, next to the protein powders with aggressive fonts and the implied promise of biceps. Nobody was marketing it at women in perimenopause. Then the research … Read more