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
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
By Sophora Editorial · Evidence reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 This is not the tiredness that an early night fixes. This is waking up already depleted. A heaviness in the body that sits behind the eyes and in the legs and does not lift by mid-morning. The third coffee not … Read more
By Sophora Editorial · Evidence reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed July 2026 Your headaches have changed. Not just more frequent, but different in quality, arriving at different points in your cycle, sometimes building in a way you did not used to experience. If you have always had migraines, they are probably worse … Read more
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
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
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
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
By Sophora Health Editorial Team · Evidence reviewed · Published July 2026 · Last reviewed October 2026 Perimenopause Insomnia: Why You Wake at 3am and What Actually Helps Waking in the middle of the night can feel very different from simply having trouble falling asleep. During perimenopause, sleep can become lighter, more broken, or harder … Read more
By Sophora Editorial · Evidence reviewed · Published June 2026 · Last reviewed June 2026 During the day it is manageable. An annoyance, a background itch you can mostly ignore while you are busy with other things. But at night, when the room is quiet and nothing competes for your attention, the itch inside your … Read more