The guides behind the videos

If you’re here from @menopausedoctor, welcome. A 60-second video can only say so much. These are the full guides behind the things Dr. Alexis talks about, written and reviewed by the Golden Leaf Health care team, with sources, and with no account, email or tracking required to read them. Newest at the top of each list.

Not sure what’s happening to you?

• Am I in perimenopause? A two-minute checker using your age, periods and symptoms. Nothing you enter is saved.
• Perimenopause vs menopause, side by side.
• When does menopause start? The average, the range, and what counts as early.
• Menopause 101, the whole picture on one page.

The symptom nobody warned you about

• Heart palpitations, and when to worry.
• Brain fog, and how to tell it from something else.
• Joint pain, and the difference from arthritis.
• Fatigue, including what “adrenal fatigue” really is.
• Hair thinning, the two patterns and what works.
• Bloating, and the kind that needs a doctor.
• Bladder symptoms and recurrent UTIs, and the treatment that prevents them.
• Irregular and heavy periods, what’s normal and what isn’t.

The ones everybody asks about

• Hot flashes and night sweats.
• Can’t sleep, waking at 3 a.m.
• Mood swings, anxiety and can too much estrogen cause anxiety?
• Depression in menopause
• Weight gain, and the macro calculator and macros guide.
• Low libido and vaginal dryness.

Hormone therapy, honestly

• BHRT vs HRT: what “bioidentical” means and what it doesn’t.
• Who should not take HRT, and what to use instead.
• Patch vs pill vs gel
• How long HRT takes to work and side effects in the first weeks.
• How doses are adjusted and how long you can stay on it.
• Micronized progesterone vs synthetic progestins
• Testosterone for women: what it treats, and why not pellets.
• What hormone therapy costs

Testing

• Hormone testing: what to test, when, and what results mean
• The DUTCH test, how to read the results, DUTCH vs blood test and cycle mapping.

Supplements, CBT, yoga

• The supplements guide: what’s worth buying.
• CBT for menopause
• Yoga for menopause: what it helps and what it doesn’t.

If you want care

Golden Leaf Health is a menopause telehealth practice. What happens at a first visit, what it costs, the care team, and how we compare with the big online clinics. Visits are by video with a clinician licensed in your state; the states we serve are listed in the questions on our homepage. Book a first visit when you’re ready.

Nothing on this site is medical advice. The guides are general information, reviewed by our clinicians; your own clinician knows your history.