Dizzy spells, spinning rooms, the grab-the-wall moment — perimenopause dizziness is more common than most women know, affecting roughly 1 in 3. Estrogen has receptors inside the inner ear, regulating the tiny calcium crystals that keep you balanced. When it drops, those crystals destabilise. Cathy breaks down BPPV, vestibular migraine, blood pressure dips, and what actually helped her — backed by peer-reviewed research, no fluff.

I hit a wall last October — flat, grey, unexplainable. When I tracked my eating, the pattern was obvious: two weeks of airport food, zero vegetables, zero care. My gut was wrecked. Turns out, so was my brain. The gut-brain axis is real, it's researched, and the 100 trillion microbes living in your digestive system are directly shaping your mood, anxiety, and mental resilience. Here's what the science says — and what I actually changed.