Dear Listener, I know what you're thinking, is it some kind of macabre joke? How can Ruby Wax write a book about good news when the world is facing the worst disaster since the Plague? Let me explain. I began writing in 2018, back when the world's worries were somewhat different. Climate change, greedy bankers, exam results, crap politicians, mental health: these are still huge issues, but even the ancient soothsayers reading pig entrails couldn't have predicted this. This is my new mission: to share the green shoots of hope peeping through the soil of civilisation.

It’s time for us to start talking about the menopause. Cracking the Menopause, from straight-talking broadcaster Mariella Frostrup and health journalist Alice Smellie, has all the information you need, delivered with characteristic wry humour. Mariella shares her own journey through the menopause, along with the latest science and advice from leading experts - to provide an informative source of wisdom and enlightenment. 

For many women, the menopause and peri-menopause can be a difficult time, with new feelings and symptoms to navigate. Mindful Menopause is here to help. Drawing on years of work helping women feel calm and in control, expert hypnotherapist Sophie Fletcher will show you how to: understand what is happening to your mind and body. Use visualisation, positive beliefs and set intentions. Ease specific symptoms such as anxiety, insomnia and hot flushes. With the right tools, we can change our approach to this rite of passage and positively embrace this liberating time of life.

Maisie Hill, the highly qualified women's health expert, best-selling author of Period Power and founder of The Flow Collective, takes us through the physiological changes of perimenopause and menopause, step by step, with calm positivity. In this invaluable guide she shares tips and advice to support women through the challenge of wildly fluctuating hormones. 

This practical nutrition and lifestyle guide provides women with the tools to build their own menopause diet which specifically targets the symptoms that are relevant to them. There are so many ways that nutrition can support a healthy and happy menopause, but a one-size-fits-all approach simply won't work.   A highly experienced clinician, Jackie specializes in providing real-world guidance to busy women. She explains how the menopause and perimenopause can change your body and how your diet can make a tangible difference to the way that you feel, whether you're using HRT or not.

When Meg Mathews hit menopause, she was shocked at the lack of awareness, understanding and support shown to women - and also found the information available far too dreary. After getting her symptoms under control she became determined to help other women avoid an experience like hers. The New Hot is her no-holds-barred guide to menopause designed to entertain and empower women in equal measure. It's full of Meg's personal insights as well as the latest information and advice from a wide range of menopause and lifestyle experts.

We often conflate happiness with success, but over the course of his career, GP and best-selling author, Dr Rangan Chatterjee has seen first-hand how this misunderstanding of happiness is actually damaging our health. Research has shown that poor mental health has a direct impact on our overall health and, in fact, 90 per cent of GP visits are due to stress. In his latest book, Happy Mind, Happy Life, he shows how making small changes to our mindset is the secret to feeling both happier and healthier.

Recent studies have shown that a keto diet not only produces significant weight loss, fast, but also has myriad other benefits for long-term health. It is an approach that naturally compliments Dr Michael Mosley's Fast 800 programme. But it must be done the right way. In The Fast 800 Keto, Dr Mosley presents the latest science on the ketogenic diet - a diet high in fat and protein and very low in carbs - explaining how it works and why it is so good for you. 

Presenter. Fashion icon. Wife. Mother. Holly Willoughby lights up the nation's TV screens every day but, like all of us, she has struggled with moments of self-doubt, feelings of guilt, anger and detachment. Here she shares how she faces these head on and has learned to reconnect with herself to find inner beauty. With her trademark warmth, Holly shows how listening to her inner voice and celebrating life's little moments of joy - like looking up at the moon or finding the perfect red lipstick - helped her feel whole again.

Estrogen, along with two other hormones, greatly affects fertility, blood pressure, temperature, the reproductive system, emotions, and sexual desires. When you think about it for a moment, it is unbelievable that billions of women go through life with all these fluctuating hormones in their bodies without ever coming to an understanding of what they do to them. They may find themselves having mood swings, hot flashes, or get a burst of lust without realizing where those things are coming from or how to control them.