There is a fear behind the phrase brain fog that most women never say aloud. I am frightened that I am developing dementia.

It feels too serious to mention casually and too frightening to make formal. So you check yourself instead. You test whether you can still name actors. You replay conversations to hear whether you sounded confused. You watch yourself driving a route you have driven for years.

This book will not tell you that every cognitive change in midlife is harmless, and it will not treat every forgotten name as proof your mind is going. Both are easy, and both are useless to a woman who needs to know what is actually happening.

It explains what the transition can do to memory, word-finding and concentration, what sleep loss and anxiety contribute, which changes genuinely warrant a proper assessment, and how to raise all of it without being handed a leaflet about relaxing.

Menopause Brain Fog is Book Four in The Menopause Clarity Series.