Progesterone

By Sophora Health Editorial Team  ·  Medically reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 Here is the hormone nobody told you about. Progesterone. The one that declines first, affects the most, and gets the least airtime in most conversations about perimenopause. If sleep has gone wrong, anxiety has arrived uninvited, moods are … Read more

Do Breasts Get Bigger During Menopause

Do Breasts Get Bigger During Menopause? | Sophora Sophora · Breast Health Do Breasts Get Bigger During Menopause? Why breasts can become larger, softer or simply different after menopause, and how to separate ordinary body change from a change that needs checking. By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Evidence reviewed · Published July 2026 · … Read more

How To Stop Hormonal Heart Palpitations

How to Stop Hormonal Heart Palpitations By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 You are sitting still, doing absolutely nothing dramatic, and suddenly your heart seems to have other plans. A hard thump. A flutter. A few fast beats. Perhaps a pause that makes you wait for … Read more

Magnesium Glycinate Heart Palpitations

By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 Your heart flutters at night. Someone online says magnesium glycinate stopped theirs within days. Another person says every woman in perimenopause is deficient. The bottle is easy to buy, the reviews are glowing, and the explanation sounds wonderfully tidy. There … Read more

Weight Gain

By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 You have not changed what you eat or how much you move. And yet , you can feel the shift, specifically around your middle, in a way that feels unrelated to anything you are doing or not doing. Clothes that … Read more

Joint Pain

By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 Your knees when you go down stairs. Your fingers in the morning. Your hips when you have been sitting for an hour and stand up. A stiffness that takes longer to shake off than it used to. A background ache … Read more

Heavy Bleeding

By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 It is heavier than it has ever been. Heavier than after childbirth, heavier than the worst period of your twenties. You are going through protection faster than makes sense, planning around it, sometimes afraid to leave the house on the … Read more

Irregular Periods

By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published July 2026  ·  Last reviewed July 2026 Your period used to be reliable. It may not have arrived on exactly the same day every month or always come without symptoms, but it was broadly predictable in a way your body had settled into. Now it seems to … Read more

Causes of Itchy Ears

By Sophora Editorial  ·  Evidence reviewed  ·  Published June 2026  ·  Last reviewed June 2026 You have searched this before and gotten the same four answers: infection, wax, eczema, allergies. You have checked for all of them. None quite fits. The itch is still there. What most lists do not tell you: there are more … Read more