Hormone Health

Hot flashes are only the beginning. A complete guide to perimenopause symptoms — vasomotor, sleep, mood, metabolic, and more — plus the lab work that explains them and rules out the look-alikes.

For most healthy women under 60 or within 10 years of menopause, current evidence says the benefits of hormone therapy outweigh the risks. Here is what the WHI got wrong, what changed at the FDA in 2025, and how to find out what is right for you.