October 18, 2023

Apparently, today is International Menopause Day! While I find these days a bit weird (and sometimes annoying), I thought I'd use this as an excuse to share some resources I wished I'd had when I went through "the change" a few years ago. All of these are for active women*!

The Well HQ: This isn't just for menopause but for athletic women's health in general. They do have a menopause category: https://www.thewell-hq.com/category/menopause/

Dr. Juliet McGrattan writes for women* runners, including those going through peri-menopause: https://drjulietmcgrattan.com/category/blog/ (through her Insta page I learned about Menopause Day...). 

Specifically for athletes going through menopause is this resource: https://www.feistymenopause.com/

And lastly, the book that helped me discover almost all the above resources: "Up to Speed" by Christine Yu. Again, this is for all women* and it has a chapter on menopause (see https://www.christinemyu.com/book )

(That * ?!? 🏳️‍⚧️ Yes, today is also International Pronoun Day, so I want to include people who might've been born with a female body and no longer identify as female and/or who have made changes to their hormone household, which will lead them also through menopause...)

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