If menopause has left you dealing with achy joints, a fuzzy memory and vaginal dryness, you're not imagining things. Many of the most frustrating midlife shifts trace back to declining estrogen. For ...

Getting a solid night’s rest may not only be an issue for you once your period stops and you’re officially in menopause. Sleep disturbances, and intertwined anxiety, can follow you through the ...

Chronic gastrointestinal pain conditions, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), are well known to impact women more often than men. While some work has connected gastrointestinal pain with ...

The sex hormone estrogen has a negative impact on heartbeat regulation, according to an experimental study from Linköping University, Sweden, published in Science Advances. Estrogen impact seems to ...

Estrogen may protect your heart before menopause. But when your estrogen levels drop during menopause, your heart may become more vulnerable to disease. Diet, exercise, and other lifestyle changes may ...

Severe stress, as experienced in natural disasters and mass shootings, can cause long-lasting memory problems, and high levels of estrogen in the brain can make women particularly vulnerable.