More power to your hormones with age

Once the hot flushes and mood swings are over, women can look forward to a testosterone-fuelled, liberated phase of life, says Margaret Jennings.

HORMONES become a woman’s best friend after menopause, launching her on a creative, confident path for the second half of her life — and there is scientific evidence to prove it.

While we are more familiar with the negative press the menopause receives — hot flushes, mood swings, and lack of energy — once that transition passes, women enter a testosterone-fuelled phase that liberates them, according to Jill Shaw Ruddock, the author of a book out next week, entitled The Second Half of Your Life.