Perimenopause resources — books, websites and scientific papers
BOOKS
By those on the path to menopause
What Fresh Hell Is This?: Perimenopause, Menopause, Other Indignities, and You, Heather Corinna
Menopocalypse: How I Learned to Thrive During Menopause and How You Can Too, Amanda Thebe
By healthcare professionals
Mayo Clinic: The Menopause Solution, Stephanie S. Faubion, MD, 2016
The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism, Jen Gunter, MD, 2021
Our Bodies Ourselves: Menopause,
Estrogen’s Storm Season, Jerilynn Prior, MD, 2005
For Healthcare professionals
Each Woman’s Menopause: An Evidence-Based Resource. For Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. Editor Patricia Geraghty, 2021
About Mind, Body, Tools for Stress Management
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2023/1994
Anchored, Deb Dana, LCSW, 2021
Breath, James Nestor, 2020
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD, 2015
Mind Over Menopause, Leslee Kagan, NP, Bruce Kessel, MD, and Herbert Benson, MD, 2004
Relationships, intimacy, libido, and sex
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections, Emily Nagoski, 2024
Come As You Are, Emily Nagoski, 2015
Mating in Captivity, Ester Perel, 2007
WEBSITES
The menopause transition
North America Menopause Society
CeMCOR: The Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research
The Merck Manual: Consumer – Menopause
The Merck Manual: Professional – Menopause
Food and supplements
National Institutes of Health Office of Dietary Supplements
Examine.com
Hormone therapy
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Long-term studies of the path to menopause
Methods in a longitudinal cohort study of late reproductive-age women: the Penn Ovarian Aging Study (POAS). Ellen W. Freeman and Mary D. Sammel. Women’s Midlife Health, 2016.
The Seattle Midlife Women’s Health Study: a longitudinal prospective study of women during the menopausal transition and early postmenopause. Nancy Fugate Woods and Ellen Sullivan Mitchell. Women’s Midlife Health, 2016.
The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) is a multi-site longitudinal, epidemiologic study designed to examine the health of women during their middle years. The study examines the physical, biological, psychological and social changes during this transitional period. It began in 1994 and is still in progress.
“A prospective population-based study of menopausal symptoms,” L Dennerstein, EC Dudley, JL Hopper, JR Guthrie, HG Burger, Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2000, volume 96, issue 3, pages 351-358.