Menopause, Knowledge is Power

Nº99 SEPTEMBER 2026

Suddenly, (almost) everything changes: your skin, your sleep, your memory, your mood. Menopause is an inevitable yet unpredictable transformation currently affecting over two million Portuguese women. However, menopause remains a source of unnecessary suffering for most of these women, due to the deeply ingrained model of stoic resistance in response to the body’s cries for help and the social pressure to remain silent.

This book relates the experience of menopause through first-person accounts and interviews with medical specialists. It highlights and challenges misinformation, the lack of workplace support, the brain's metamorphosis and the effect of fluctuating hormones. From the impact on sexuality to the urgent need for public policies, these pages capture the hot flushes and the pervasive sadness, but also the freedom and reinvention – the many facets of a phase that some are already calling a «second puberty.»