06/18/2026
What is postmenopause?
Postmenopause begins after 12 consecutive months without a menstrual period and continues for the rest of your life. Hormone levels remain lower and more stable long term, but lower and stable does not always mean your body feels optimal.
Postmenopause symptoms are often quieter, but more persistent. Symptoms may not feel as dramatic as they once did. But over time, changes in energy, sleep, strength, mood, and recovery can quietly affect how you function day to day.
Persistently lower hormone levels influence much more than reproductive function. They affect how your body regulates energy, maintains muscle, recovers from stress, manages inflammation, protects bone, and supports cardiovascular health.
Most postmenopause care stops when the hot flashes do. But changes to bone, heart, metabolism, cognition, and recovery don't stop. They accumulate quietly in ways that are far easier to address early than to reverse later.
You can read more about what can be done during the postmenopause phase on our website https://www.rhmmed.com/women/postmenopause