Table of Contents
Welcome! 1
Chapter 1 Why I Needed This Guide Four Years Ago 5
Chapter 2 We Are Our Own Best Hope 10
Chapter 3 What Are the Stages and Symptoms of Perimenopause Anyway? 16
Chapter 4 Hormones Are Everything! 31
Chapter 5 Don't Ignore Your Thyroid 44
Chapter 6 The Nightmare That Is Estrogen Dominance 57
Chapter 7 Hormone Replacement Therapy: A Long and Complicated Story! 68
Chapter 8 The Perimenopause Dream Team 85
Chapter 9 Food Is Not the Enemy 98
Chapter 10 The Truth about Alcohol and Perimenopause 110
Chapter 11 Sleeping Beauty Strategies 116
Chapter 12 Moving Our Bodies 128
Chapter 13 Monitor Mental Health 138
Chapter 14 Flip the Script on Perimenopause 150
Chapter 15 Navigating Sex & Intimacy: It's Complicated 160
Chapter 16 We're All Adults Here: Talking about Perimenopause 177
Chapter 17 Highlights and What's Next? 186
Acknowledgments 189