JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Weight gain is common in women during perimenopause and after menopause, but the physical changes underlying it start much earlier in adulthood. Dr. Daniela Hurtado Andrade, an ...

As your 40th birthday approaches, you may feel apprehensive about aging. Body changes at 40 in women are often related to perimenopause (the transition into menopause), during which hormones like ...

But there’s another layer that doesn’t get talked about as often, which is how differently the immune system itself ages from person to person. For women, this can show up in a very specific way.

Men and women experience immune aging differently, affecting disease risks. New data-driven research identifies key ...

Jan. 22, 2026 -- Perimenopause is the natural transition leading into menopause, marked by erratic fluctuations in estrogen and progesterone. These unpredictable shifts can trigger emotional, ...

Secondary aging refers to aging-related changes caused by environmental, lifestyle, and health factors rather than natural biological processes. Aging happens to everyone, but people do not age in the ...

Depression in women in their 50s and 60s often appears as subtle physical changes that are easy to dismiss as just aging.

Dr. Sara Mahdavi, BSc, HBSc, RD, MSc, PhD, was a post-doctoral fellow at T.H. Chan Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard University while conducting research on nutrition, genetics and women’s ...

A new analysis suggests that specific patterns of childhood hardship are linked to faster biological aging in women later in life. The research indicates that the impact of these early experiences ...