Perimenopause resources — books, websites and scientific papers
BOOKS
Perspectives from 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
Why We Can’t Sleep — Women’s New Midlife Crisis, Ada Calhoun (WLB blog post)
Overviews of the menopause transition 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
Each Woman’s Menopause: An Evidence-Based Resource. For Nurse Practitioners, Advanced Practice Nurses and Allied Health Professionals. Editor Patricia Geraghty, 2021
Our Bodies Ourselves: Menopause,
Estrogen’s Storm Season, Jerilynn Prior, MD, 2005 (ebook available: Amazon Kindle and Google Play Book)
Food and supplements
Fortify Your Life, Tieraona Low Dog, MD, 2016
Mindfulness and meditation
Mind Over Menopause, Leslee Kagan, NP, Bruce Kessel, MD, and Herbert Benson, MD, 2004
Relationships, intimacy, libido, and sex
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
Nutritionfacts.org
Medline Plus
Examine.com
Hormone therapy
2022 Position Statement, North American Menopause Society
National Association of Menopause Providers (NAMS): Deciding About Hormone Therapy Use
The Hormone Health Network
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.