How to Menopause

Content Warning: This section of the guide includes discussion of sexual content.

The foreword to How to Menopause is written by Lisa Mosconi, PhD, who works as the director of the Women’s Brain Initiative and Alzheimer’s Prevention Program. Her field is neuroscience, and she studies how menopause and estrogen affect women’s brains. Mosconi is proud to be part of Tamsen Fadal’s book on menopause because it is a life transition that is seldom discussed or studied, surrounded by confusion, and often feared. She hopes women can feel less alone, more prepared, and more self-assured in their ability to navigate this challenging but important time in a woman’s life. Mosconi points out that she has always found Fadal to be trustworthy, warm, and devoted to the cause of educating women on menopause and perimenopause. Fadal understands that no two women’s experience of menopause are the same and attempts to be as open-minded and unbiased as possible. Mosconi describes How to Menopause as being like a “trusted friend” (xiv) to guide women through this life change.