If your body is changing despite no changes in diet or exercise, hormones may be why. Here's what's really happening during perimenopause.

Forgetful, foggy, distracted? Learn how shifting estrogen and disrupted sleep affect memory and focus during perimenopause, and what helps.

You feel on edge for no clear reason. Your heart races over something small. You used to handle stress fine, and now everything feels like too much.

You might be wondering if this is anxiety. It might be. But if these feelings arrived or intensified alongside other changes, irregular periods, sleep that will not cooperate, a body that feels unfamiliar, hormones are very likely part of the story too.