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
- The New Rules of Menopause: A Mayo Clinic Guide to Perimenopause and Beyond, Stephanie S. Faubion, MD, 2023
- 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
- Anchored, Deb Dana, LCSW, 2021
- The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel Van Der Kolk, MD, 2015
- Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life, Jon Kabat-Zinn, 2023/1994
- 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 AND PDFs
The menopause transition
- The Menopause Society (formerly NAMS)
- The International Menopause Society (IMS)
- CeMCOR: The Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research
- The Merck Manual: Consumer – Menopause
- The Merck Manual: Professional – Menopause
Food and supplements
Menopausal hormone therapy (MHT)
- Menopause and MHT in 2024: addressing the key controversies – an International Menopause Society White Paper
- 2022 Position Statement, North American Menopause Society
Non-hormonal therapy
SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Women Living Better’s Overview of Key Studies
Long-term studies of the path to menopause
The Massachusetts Women’s Health Study: an epidemiologic investigation of the menopause. Avis Nancy E, McKinlay Sonia M. 1972.
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.
“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. (Melbourne Women’s Midlife Health Project)
The Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation (SWAN) 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.
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.