Sophora Editorial 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
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Three things arrived more or less together. Low Progesterone, Anxiety, Hair loss and Acne. This does seem like quite a handful to encounter at one go. The anxiety, which was new and had no obvious cause. The hair, which … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 The sleep started going first. Then the anxiety arrived, which was new and unwelcome and had no obvious explanation. Then the periods became unpredictable. Then the mood took on a life of its own in the week before the … Read more
Sophora Engine 8 of 8 Relationship Companion They love you. They are trying. They also have no idea why you need more space than usual. Why the things that used to be fine are not fine anymore. Why Tuesday was manageable and Wednesday was not. Perimenopause does not come with a guide for the people … Read more