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Leh we talk about everything that is NOT a hot flash. Hot flashes get all the attention. They're the star of every menopause joke it seems. Like- why is this funny that we constantly feel like we about to self combust?? But, there is so much more to this menopause transition- so leh we really talk bout the rest. Sleep. Trouble sleeping is one of the most common symptoms of this transition. It affects about 5 out of every 10 women in perimenopause and after menopause. The mo

Menopause research is hard to come by- for Black and Brown women it’s thin, and research on Caribbean women is almost non-existent. But, our sisters in Tobago (yes- like Trinidad & Tobago) took part in a study that we can learn from. It was not about Menopause; it was set up to look at heart health and body fat. Researchers asked every woman about her life as a woman- children, periods, and when those periods stopped. That is the important data we can use to talk menopause.

We’re not doing the menopause version you read about in some fancy magazine, and certainly not the weird TikTok version with the promise that a pill will fix everything. We’re doing real, juicy, menopause talk — the kind that feels like melee you want to tell your cousin. We’re going to be real- like when you’re in the grocery line and somebody says "girl, you sweating like me" and you both just look at each other and laugh because you already know what that is. And it’s not