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Your weekly roundup of hopefully helpful things
Women are in the US drinking more in midlife and their older years – including binging. Sarah McKetta, a researcher at Harvard Medical School, presented her national survey findings in Risky Alcohol Use Among Women in the Midlife and Older Ages: Trends and Determinants earlier this month at the annual meeting of the Research Society on Alcohol. “We’ve found that these increases are concentrated among women with high socioeconomic status and relative privilege. This includes women with high education and high income, and women who work in prestigious careers.” (Editor’s note: Who are these women – and how can they drink more, let alone binge? I can barely drink anything, much as I want to. The last time I had wine I was literally up all night.)
Testosterone gel didn’t do much to help women healing from hip fractures: Medscape
Scientists invent a literal thinking cap (and we imagine the perimenopause brain fog applications): Medscape
Up to 44 percent of dementia cases are preventable; it’s all about the vasculature: Jama Network
More than half of women surveyed – 56 percent – experience some dissatisfaction with their bodies during perimenopause/menopause, and more than one in 10 avoid looking in the mirror in midlife, according to a survey by Butterfly, the Australian charity for people impacted by eating disorders.
What makes it worse? Menopause starts two years earlier in disadvantaged neighbourhoods: Jama Network Open
The American Academy of Dermatology wants in on managing genitourinary syndrome of menopause, with their Menopause and Women’s Health in Dermatology Quality Improvement Workgroup publishing recommendations in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology: Healio
Remember that 2019 commencement speech when Jennifer Garner told graduates: “Don’t smoke and don’t vape”? Researchers will publish a report in ACS Central Science next week that found some disposable vaping devices released higher amounts of metals and metalloids after several hundred puffs – and far more than traditional cigarettes.
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Quotable: Feeling moody in Greece 🇬🇷
“…what I found out is that I have several ups and downs in my mood, big ups and big downs… I mean, it comes in waves of mood and generally ranges from days, where I don’t have, let’s say… I am not willing to do anything. Everything eventually goes on of course! I’m just not in the mood myself. And then, there are other days when I am at my best again!”
— DA, 47, from a new study published in Cureus: Exploring Knowledge and Perceptions of Menopause Among Peri‑Menopausal Women in Greece
Celebrities love perimenopause
Australian model Elle Macpherson is getting in on menopause game, viewing the transition as a “rebirth” and offering holistic tools through her company WelleCo (green drinks, protein elixirs, etc.): Corowa Free Press
I loved this Instagram Reel from Tracy Moore, the first Black woman to host a daytime talk show in Canada. She shouts out to haters who said it wasn’t possible to get a clean bill of health despite gaining weight in perimenopause.
Naomi Watts has launched a new campaign to promote her menopause brand Stripes, Hotter Than Ever. I get the wordplay, but at this point I’m also a bit tired of anything that makes me feel like I need to be – or look – “hot”. People
Melissa Grelo, co‑host of the Canadian talk show The Social (fun fact: I interviewed to be a producer before it launched more than a decade ago) and host of the Aging Powerfully with Melissa Grelo podcast, talks about feeling like she was having a heart attack before finding out she was in perimenopause: “That was terrifying.” Yahoo
I don’t think Halle Berry has stopped talking about menopause, has she? Halle Berry Breaks Silence on Menopause Struggles, Advocates for Women’s Health MSN
Read + watch, think + know
Fitness and menopause expert – and Hotflash inc expert panel member – Maria Luque nails it. There’s so much goodness in this article that I can’t single one thing out: When Your Body Asks for Change – And You Keep Saying No Fitness in Menopause
Today on a list of things I can’t be bothered to worry about (meanwhile, birth control pills continue to cause clitoral shrinkage): Yes, Genitourinary Syndrome of Menopause Might Be Shrinking Your Labia Self.com
There are at least one of these headlines a week globally, and you can insert any disease – brain tumor, ovarian cancer, dementia, etc. I share it as a reminder not to blame everything on perimenopause, and to check out anything concerning or unusual: Flintshire woman thought cervical cancer was perimenopause Leader Live
Digital tools for menopause need to be offered in native languages and be culturally sensitive, according to a study of Greek women: Cureus
Dear Daughter: Don’t Fear Menopause. Our favorite endocrinologist Annice Mukherjee writes a letter to her daughter Namulanta about the mother of all transitions: BBC
Editor’s note 🥑
Touch grass, think about what’s real – and don’t you dare give into the fear. Also, this man and his “nature’s dishes” avocado video have changed my life.
AMx
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Thank you so much for including my Elevations in this fab round up. Can’t wait to create yours!