HRT not for you? These alternative and complementary remedies may help your menopause symptoms
Menopause awareness and information has gone from a tiny, misinformed trickle to a tsunami of knowledge, thanks to a combination of factors: the retraction of inaccurate but highly influential US research, the 2003 Million Women Study, which wrongly linked HRT to breast cancer (the research has since been corrected and republished); the Davina Effect, where public figures, appalled at the lack of public discussion around menopause, initiated their own; and the refusal of this generation of menopausers to put up and shut up, unlike our mammies and grannies who suffered in silence and stigma.