How much protein do I need in menopause has two credible answers rather than one, and the gap between them matters. What both agree on is that the official minimum was never designed for this.
How long do hot flashes last has a real answer, and it is longer than the one in circulation. The useful part is not the average. It is what predicts which end of it you are on.
Are sleep trackers accurate? Tested against laboratory polysomnography, seven devices did well at telling sleep from wake and poorly at telling one stage from another. The distinction decides what the number is worth.
Losing strength after 50 does not track the size of your muscles. In one long study, strength fell two to five times faster than muscle did, and gaining weight protected nobody.
Menopause weight gain around the middle is measured as two changes at once: fat arriving faster and muscle quietly leaving. The scale can show neither, which is why it feels like nothing adds up.
Is adrenal fatigue real? A systematic review screened 3,470 papers, assessed 58, and concluded the condition has no substantiation. An evidence review of what was tested, and what exhaustion still deserves.
Why does alcohol affect me more now is a question about two separate changes: the same glass reaches a higher concentration, and the second half of the night pays for the calm of the first.
A cortisol test for burnout is sold as the answer the blood panel missed. Seven studies point in three directions, and the assay itself is validated for a disease affecting 40 to 70 people per million. An evidence review.
Why does menopause cause brain fog? Imaging at Weill Cornell measured brain glucose metabolism falling across the transition — and, on two-year follow-up scans, a partial recovery that age-matched men did not show. What the scans measured, and what they did not.
Night sweats in perimenopause are treated as the thing that wakes you. In a sleep laboratory they mostly arrived after the waking, not before it, which changes what is actually worth fixing.
