{"id":3968,"date":"2026-10-12T16:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3968"},"modified":"2026-10-12T16:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T16:36:13","slug":"5-menopause-myths-healthywomen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/?p=3968","title":{"rendered":"5 Menopause Myths &#8211; HealthyWomen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/media-library\/busted-5-myths-about-menopause.png?id=68416816&amp;width=980\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em><em>October 18, 2026, is <\/em><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imsociety.org\/education\/world-menopause-day-2026\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em><em>World Menopause Day<\/em><\/em><\/a><em><em>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ah, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/your-health\/menopause-aging-well\/facts-about-menopause\">menopause<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>We spent decades knowing nothing about you and now you\u2019re everywhere. Like our own little Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. <\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t get us wrong \u2014 the more talk about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/your-health\/understanding-menopause-stages-and-terms\" target=\"_self\">menopause<\/a>, the better. For too long, women have had to white-knuckle it through <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/what-is-brain-fog\">brain fog<\/a>, mood swings and furnaces for bodies without saying a word. <\/p>\n<p>Now, the conversation surrounding menopause is louder than ever and proof we have the ability to change the narrative and the way we approach this completely natural time in life that all women go through. <\/p>\n<p>In fact, about 1.3 million people in the U.S. will reach menopause this year alone. But considering less than half of women ages 50 to 64 haven\u2019t been told by their clinician what to expect during menopause, it\u2019s easy to see why misinformation still exists. <\/p>\n<p>Here, we\u2019re debunking some common <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/your-health\/menopause-aging-well\/facts-about-menopause\" target=\"_self\">myths about menopause<\/a> and giving you the facts all people who menstruate need to know. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthywomen.org\/topics\/menopause-myths\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2026, is World Menopause Day. Ah, menopause. We spent decades knowing nothing about you and now you\u2019re everywhere. Like our own little Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet. Don\u2019t get us wrong \u2014 the more talk about menopause, the better. For too long, women have had to white-knuckle it through brain fog, mood swings and furnaces for bodies without saying a word. Now, the conversation surrounding menopause is louder than ever and proof we have the ability to change the narrative and the way we approach this completely natural time in life that all women go through. In fact, about 1.3 million people in the U.S. will reach menopause this year alone. But considering less than half of women ages 50 to 64 haven\u2019t been told by their clinician what to expect during menopause, it\u2019s easy to see why misinformation still exists. Here, we\u2019re debunking some common myths about menopause and giving you the facts all people who menstruate need to know. Source link<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3968\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drsoniafawad.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}