Plainly Her Picks
Supplements
Most of what is sold for menopause has weak evidence behind it. This list is short on purpose, and two entries here carry no link at all.
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Magnesium glycinate
The evidence that magnesium improves menopausal sleep specifically is thin. It is cheap, low risk, and a lot of women find it helps, and glycinate is the form least likely to upset your stomach.
Who it may suit. Worth a four-week trial if sleep is the main complaint and you would rather start with something low risk.
The catch. If a trial has not shown it, we are not going to tell you it has. Do not take it instead of investigating a sleep problem that is getting worse.
Compounded "bioidentical" hormone pellets
Custom-compounded hormone preparations are not subject to the same testing as regulated products, doses have been shown to vary batch to batch, and pellets cannot be removed if the dose turns out to be wrong.
The catch. Regulated body-identical hormone therapy prescribed by a clinician is a different thing entirely and has good evidence behind it. We link to nothing here on purpose.
"Hormone balancing" detox teas
Nothing in these blends balances a hormone. Most work by being a laxative, which produces a scale change that women are then told is progress.
The catch. We link to nothing here, and this category is a large part of why this site grades things at all.