Leadership Perspective

Menopause advice is everywhere. How do you know what to believe? A decade ago, women struggled to find reliable information about menopause. Now we are being told to eat more protein, lift heavy, take creatine, optimise our hormones and buy an ever-growing list of products designed for midlife. More information should be a good thing. So why does it feel harder than ever to know who to trust? As recently as a decade ago, HRT still seemed to exist in a strange, shadowy

You’re thinking about HRT, now more commonly called menopausal hormone therapy or MHT, but should you go on it at all? If you do, should it be a patch, gel or tablet? How do you know what dose is right, whether you need blood tests, and what the breast cancer risk really looks like? Menopause specialist Dr Anna Fenton explains what HRT can actually help with, where the evidence sits and what women should be asking before and after they start treatment. When I first intervie