Lifestyle & everyday life

Gaining weight during menopause, especially around your belly, even though you haven't changed how you eat? That is very common. Why it happens, what genuinely helps and when it is worth getting checked.

Trouble falling asleep, wide awake at 3am, or waking too early and never rested? Sleep problems are among the most reported menopause symptoms. Usually temporary, and there is more you can do than reach for a sleeping pill.

It's 3am again and you're wide awake. Sleep therapist Tracy Hannigan explains why (peri)menopause disrupts sleep, why the insomnia often outlasts the hormones, and what actually helps.

And what if stress wasn't the enemy we imagine it to be?