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Menopause and sleep

Women often sleep less well during peri-menopause and menopause. How do hormones change during this period? We consider how supplements and the Zeez Sleep Pebble can help.

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Zeez Sleep Pebble featured on Women's Health: Breaking the Taboos

Earlier this year, when I said "Yes" to the terrifying prospect of three strangers reviewing the Zeez Sleep Pebble after a very short period of use, I didn't realise it would feature on a series about busting taboos.

The tv programme focuses on health issues that affect huge numbers of women: fibroids, vaginal atrophy, painful periods. Grim topics, yet listening to the first of the two broadcasts, I felt lightness: a weight of silence lifted.

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Love and Lust in Lockdown

10 ways in which better sleep could be the best Valentine’s gift ever

This has been a tough year. Many people are stressed, sleeping less, and having less sex, even when they live together. Sex is often the glue that holds relationships together, and this matters.

There are many things that contribute to our stress that we can’t change. We can, I think, change our sleep, and if we slept better, we’d be more resilient to stress, and enjoy better sex. Sleep is sexy. Here’s how.

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