Weight changes around menopause are real, physiologically driven, and different from what they were at 35. What's happening, what doesn't work, and what the evidence actually supports.

Hot flushes affect 75% of women through menopause. The evidence on management — medical and lifestyle — is more extensive and more hopeful than most women realise.

HRT has had one of the most dramatic reputation reversals in recent medical history. Here is what the current evidence actually shows — without the anxiety the topic has carried for twenty years.