How to Manage Sleepless Nights in Menopause?

Hot flashes and night sweats often come with the menopause territory. As if these symptoms weren’t disruptive enough, you may find yourself losing sleep because of them. Not getting enough sleep from menopause symptoms means more than just crankiness the next day. Long-term sleep deprivation decreases your ability to function during everyday activities, and can even lead to other health problems. If hot flashes and night sweats are causing sleepless nights, it’s time to figure out what you can do about it. What’s Behind Those Menopause Symptoms? Due...

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New Clues Why Breast Cancer Still A Menopause Risk

It is not just your hormones that change at menopause, it seems that as women age the cells responsible for maintaining healthy breast tissue stop responding to their immediate surroundings, including mechanical cues that should prompt them to suppress nearby tumours. These new findings are attributed to scientists from the US Department of Energy’s National Laboratory at Berkeley and the University of Bergen, Norway.  Their work sheds light on how aging alters cellular and molecular functions, and how these changes contribute to the prevalence...

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