Women's health after 40, and what the research actually supports
Menopausal brain fog, melatonin’s prescription-only status in Korea, ginkgo’s bleeding risk, and ashwagandha safety.
Forgetting a name mid-sentence at fifty(Menopausal Brain Fog) is frightening in a way it wasn’t at thirty. The fear usually isn’t about the word — it’s about what the word might mean. The research on this is unusually reassuring, and specific enough to be useful. It’s measurable, not imagined The first thing worth knowing … Read more
Ginkgo and bleeding risk is a case where two kinds of evidence point in opposite directions, and neither can be dismissed. Case reports describe serious haemorrhage. Randomised trials measuring coagulation find nothing. Working out what to do with that requires looking at what each kind of study can and cannot detect. The mechanism is … Read more
Ginkgo has been used in China for centuries and sold across the West for decades. Few supplements have accumulated as much history, or as much research. That research includes a trial of 3,069 older adults followed for six years. It’s worth knowing what it found. The circulation hypothesis The proposed mechanisms are specific, which … Read more