What’s Up With Menopause & Aging Well?

Our guest Dr. Sue Ross is a professor and research scientist from the Alberta Women's Health Foundation who offers a common sense, age positive, and more-often-than-not drug-free approach to menopause and aging well. In this conversation, she tells us what she's observed in those who cope best with the symptoms of menopause and shares some advice based on her findings. Namely:

 

1) Create a community. Even 1 buddy is enough! Accept this as just another chapter in your life during which you're going to want to be surrounded by some solid lady-friends who know what's up - just like early motherhood. 

 

2) Get walking (if you're able). Even just 15 minutes a day. But make it a habit to get yourself some fresh air. Breath and movement are always the answer.

 

3) Figure out exactly what's bothering you about the experience of menopause. Is it physical symptoms? Mental symptoms? Everyone is different. Deeply considering your own unique experience will help direct you to the help you actually need.

 

Read more about Dr Ross and access her work here: https://www.wchri.org/members-and-trainees/find-a-researcher/sue-ross/

 

Learn more about our partner, WHCC, and the work they're doing to close the gap in women's health research, click here: www.WHCC.ca