What is happening in your body?

Poor sleep, sudden anxiety, palpitations, aching joints or itching. Dr William Declerck and Ann Broché on the symptoms you don't immediately link to (peri)menopause.

It's 3am again and you're wide awake. Sleep therapist Tracy Hannigan explains why (peri)menopause disrupts sleep, why the insomnia often outlasts the hormones, and what actually helps.

Hormones drive more than two hundred processes in your body. Medical training devotes roughly ten pages to menopause.

Hormonal fluctuations set off inflammation you feel throughout your body. Suzanne Rethans and Dr William Declerck explain how that works.

Flat in the morning, swollen and tight by evening? A bloated belly is one of the most reported digestive symptoms in menopause. Usually harmless, and there is often more you can do about it than you might think.

More hair in your brush, a wider parting, a thinner ponytail? Hair loss belongs to menopause more often than you might think. Usually there is an explanation, and usually there is something you can do about it.

Osteoporosis causes no pain and gives no warning for years. Yet menopause is when you lose bone density fastest. Why it happens, who is most at risk and what actually protects your bones.

Gaining weight during menopause, especially around your belly, even though you haven't changed how you eat? That is very common. Why it happens, what genuinely helps and when it is worth getting checked.