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The same brain training that gets you over tough athletic hurdles can make menopausal challenges easier.

By Selene Yeager

 *** This article was originally posted in June 2022. It has since been updated. ***

As athletes, we train our brains all the time. When our legs...

Skip the stigma and the shame. Self-love is good for the mind, body, and spirit.

By Selene Yeager

Sometimes our Hit Play Not Pause podcast guests ask if there are any topics that are off-limits. The answer is always, "Nope!" If anything, we seek to push the limits in our...

Information—and disinformation—is everywhere. How much do we know about menopause now?

By Selene Yeager 

Menopause is seemingly everywhere right now. It’s on the Super Bowl. It’s on The Drew Barrymore Show (if you didn’t see Drew having...

The journey through menopause can be challenging. Here’s a checklist to help smooth the way.

By Selene Yeager

Welcome to the menopause transition, a time when you travel from premenopause to postmenopause. The transition is the result of your reproductive system shutting down...

Midlife and menopausal women still lag well behind men in cardiac awareness and care. Here’s how to make heart health a top priority. 

By Selene Yeager

I’ve been writing this same story for years: millions of women are dying unnecessarily from heart disease. We...

Fat can be your friend (it's true!). But deep belly fat (which you can't even see) is a health foe and it rises with menopause. Here's what helps keep belly fat at bay.

By Selene Yeager

 *** This article was originally posted in March of 2022. It has since been updated. ***

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Athletics and hormone decline can set the stage for dental disease. Here’s how to save your teeth.

By Selene Yeager 

Endurance sports are good for your heart and mind, but man they can wreak havoc on your teeth, and menopause can make the situation for your pearly whites even...

Foot pain becomes more common during the menopause transition. Here’s how to avoid aching, painful feet.

By Selene Yeager

 *** This article was originally posted in June 2022. It has since been updated. ***

Bunions and bone spurs and heel pain. Oh my, midlife can...

by Selene Yeager

Our first Feisty Menopause Performance Retreat blew me away…and in some very unexpected ways.

We descended on Lake Nona ready to learn. A dozen women confident enough in who they are to be fully open to who they could become. Women who have embraced menopause as a time to...

Low on mojo? What fires you up can change in menopause and midlife, but it doesn’t mean the flame is gone. It just needs a different fan.

Selene Yeager

Dragging yourself through the motions more often than not these days? You’re not alone. The physical and psychological...

Can these fungi help with mood swings, brain fog, and other menopause symptoms? Science is trying to find out.

By Selene Yeager

Note: This article was first published in February 2022. Since then, new research and CounsumerLab recommendations have been published. This article has...

If you can read this (without corrective lenses) you’re lucky!

By Selene Yeager

Sometime after your 40th birthday, you start noticing this annoying blurry type everywhere…in phone messages, food packaging, novels, you name it, there’s this itsy-bitsy print that...