Sophora Editorial By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You have been together for years. You know each other. And yet somewhere in the last year or two, a change has settled in the space between you. You talk less. You touch less. You feel further from … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You already know about oestrogen. You have heard about progesterone. Testosterone is starting to make more sense. And then there is cortisol. Technically a stress hormone, not a sex hormone, and yet deeply embedded in why perimenopause feels … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 There was a time when sleep was something you did not think about. You went to bed, you slept, you woke up. Somewhere in your 40s that changed. Now you lie there for a while first. Or you … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Imagine your pituitary gland sending a message to your ovaries: produce more oestrogen, please. The ovaries receive the message, oblige, and send confirmation back. This has been happening reliably every cycle since puberty. During perimenopause, the ovaries start … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Your eyes have been gritty. Or dry in a way that makes screens harder. Or your vision blurs at odd moments and clears again when you blink. You may have changed your glasses prescription once already this year … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 The fatigue, the brain fog, the low mood, the tingling in your hands. All of it looks like menopause. And most of it probably is. But there is one nutritional deficiency that produces an almost identical set of … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You started progesterone and the scale went up. Or your progesterone dropped and the scale went up. Either way, the number changed, the hormone changed, and now you want to know whether those two things are actually … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 You cannot sleep. Your periods have changed. Your mood feels like it is balanced on a knife edge between anxious and flat. Your body feels unfamiliar in ways that are hard to name, let alone explain to … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 The search for ways to raise progesterone naturally is often driven by a specific experience. Sleep is broken, the second half of the cycle feels unstable, and periods have changed. The hormonal cause has a name. Now … Read more
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Medically reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Does Progesterone increase libido or does it go lower? It can be confusing sometimes. One article said low progesterone kills sex drive. Another said progesterone is sedating and actually suppresses it. Perhaps a supplement company said their progesterone cream … Read more