Jenn Reed’s menopausal transition was nothing like she expected. An empty-nester mom, she had always eaten healthily and been fit—she even worked as a personal trainer—but gradually, she stopped caring about her health and gained 25 pounds.
She began feeling lethargic, miserable, and isolated. Her husband was worried about her. It took many visits to several specialists before she learned that decades of using birth control pills had left her body unable to make its own hormones, causing menopause to be especially dreadful in her case.
Menopause can bring on vasomotor symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, and heart palpitations. It’s also associated with sexual dysfunction, urogenital problems, and mood disorders, as well as more silent risks to bones, cognition, and the heart....
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