Kate Muir
@katemuir.bsky.social
Writer and filmmaker. New book How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. Women’s health campaigner and menopause expert http://Substack.com/@katemuir
Is it ever too late to start HRT?
We meet a Glasgow Menopause Warrior who started HRT at 63, and former City exec who’s still enjoying the benefits at 78. Plus some advice from Dr Louise Newson. If we’re working to 67, it makes sense to stay strong. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
We meet a Glasgow Menopause Warrior who started HRT at 63, and former City exec who’s still enjoying the benefits at 78. Plus some advice from Dr Louise Newson. If we’re working to 67, it makes sense to stay strong. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
October 31, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Is it ever too late to start HRT?
We meet a Glasgow Menopause Warrior who started HRT at 63, and former City exec who’s still enjoying the benefits at 78. Plus some advice from Dr Louise Newson. If we’re working to 67, it makes sense to stay strong. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
We meet a Glasgow Menopause Warrior who started HRT at 63, and former City exec who’s still enjoying the benefits at 78. Plus some advice from Dr Louise Newson. If we’re working to 67, it makes sense to stay strong. Read here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Something for the weekend…talking with Davina McCall on her Begin Again podcast about reinvention, menopause, longevity and my book How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. Listen here: youtu.be/YqQAzSdqpCs
October 11, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Something for the weekend…talking with Davina McCall on her Begin Again podcast about reinvention, menopause, longevity and my book How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. Listen here: youtu.be/YqQAzSdqpCs
I’ve written an essay on Riot Women, by genius scriptwriter Sally Wainwright. Her six-part BBC series is about midlife women in crisis who - of course - form a punk band. But there’s serious, darker stuff in there too about the mental health issues too. Read more:
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open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
October 10, 2025 at 7:22 AM
I’ve written an essay on Riot Women, by genius scriptwriter Sally Wainwright. Her six-part BBC series is about midlife women in crisis who - of course - form a punk band. But there’s serious, darker stuff in there too about the mental health issues too. Read more:
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Delighted to be on the Begin Again podcast with Davina McCall this week. We talk about how we both rebooted our lives, became menopause campaigners, and made a couple of documentaries together. And about my book, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. Here’s the podcast: youtu.be/YqQAzSdqpCs
October 9, 2025 at 8:10 AM
Delighted to be on the Begin Again podcast with Davina McCall this week. We talk about how we both rebooted our lives, became menopause campaigners, and made a couple of documentaries together. And about my book, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. Here’s the podcast: youtu.be/YqQAzSdqpCs
How to defuse the time bombs of ageing with Dr Vonda Wright open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
September 21, 2025 at 3:54 PM
How to defuse the time bombs of ageing with Dr Vonda Wright open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Was Mrs T on HRT?
Do hormones affect the will to power. The answer, for Thatcher, was rather surprising: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
Do hormones affect the will to power. The answer, for Thatcher, was rather surprising: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
September 12, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Was Mrs T on HRT?
Do hormones affect the will to power. The answer, for Thatcher, was rather surprising: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
Do hormones affect the will to power. The answer, for Thatcher, was rather surprising: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
Reposted by Kate Muir
As someone who is probably fast approaching perimenopause, I've been paying a lot of attention to the latest research and modern HRT. We need to talk about it more!
It’s time to rebrand HRT!
And why synthetic hormones are a bit like ultra-processed food.
Please read my essay on why HRT has been given such a bad rap, in science and popular culture, and how women are the losers in this ideological battle. open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
And why synthetic hormones are a bit like ultra-processed food.
Please read my essay on why HRT has been given such a bad rap, in science and popular culture, and how women are the losers in this ideological battle. open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
August 22, 2025 at 12:34 PM
As someone who is probably fast approaching perimenopause, I've been paying a lot of attention to the latest research and modern HRT. We need to talk about it more!
Is the ‘Grandmother Hypothesis’ of menopause bonkers? Read my essay: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
August 29, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Is the ‘Grandmother Hypothesis’ of menopause bonkers? Read my essay: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
It’s time to rebrand HRT!
And why synthetic hormones are a bit like ultra-processed food.
Please read my essay on why HRT has been given such a bad rap, in science and popular culture, and how women are the losers in this ideological battle. open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
And why synthetic hormones are a bit like ultra-processed food.
Please read my essay on why HRT has been given such a bad rap, in science and popular culture, and how women are the losers in this ideological battle. open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
August 22, 2025 at 7:03 AM
It’s time to rebrand HRT!
And why synthetic hormones are a bit like ultra-processed food.
Please read my essay on why HRT has been given such a bad rap, in science and popular culture, and how women are the losers in this ideological battle. open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
And why synthetic hormones are a bit like ultra-processed food.
Please read my essay on why HRT has been given such a bad rap, in science and popular culture, and how women are the losers in this ideological battle. open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Reposted by Kate Muir
Book of the day, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. @katemuir.bsky.social a women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author of How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, as well as groundbreaking books on the menopause and the pill.
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August 21, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Book of the day, How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis. @katemuir.bsky.social a women’s health expert, documentary maker, and author of How to Have a Magnificent Midlife Crisis, as well as groundbreaking books on the menopause and the pill.
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wegottickets.com/event/673121/
Read all about the joys and mental health benefits of (cold) wild swimming here - reporting from the Isle of Gigha open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
August 17, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Read all about the joys and mental health benefits of (cold) wild swimming here - reporting from the Isle of Gigha open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Links to the full article which was picked up by the iPaper
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Please subscribe to my weekly free Substack - I’ll be doing more on this in the autumn. And spread the word. Thanks! Kate
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Please subscribe to my weekly free Substack - I’ll be doing more on this in the autumn. And spread the word. Thanks! Kate
August 11, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Links to the full article which was picked up by the iPaper
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Please subscribe to my weekly free Substack - I’ll be doing more on this in the autumn. And spread the word. Thanks! Kate
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Please subscribe to my weekly free Substack - I’ll be doing more on this in the autumn. And spread the word. Thanks! Kate
An essay from on the human and hormonal aspects of The Rage 😡 open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
August 9, 2025 at 10:59 AM
An essay from on the human and hormonal aspects of The Rage 😡 open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
We’re talking about The Rage in midlife below. And please subscribe to my free Substack for more posts like this open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
August 8, 2025 at 9:16 AM
We’re talking about The Rage in midlife below. And please subscribe to my free Substack for more posts like this open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
How many hours of sleep do we need to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s? Read the latest science on holistic protection in my new free report here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
July 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
How many hours of sleep do we need to lower the risk of Alzheimer’s? Read the latest science on holistic protection in my new free report here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Is this electric-blue yoghurt with agave syrup really ‘brain food’? Read my new free Substack post on all the holistic ways to protect your brain - How Can I Avoid Alzheimer’s (Part 2). It’s amazing the extent to which we can control our risks.
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open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
July 25, 2025 at 7:17 AM
Is this electric-blue yoghurt with agave syrup really ‘brain food’? Read my new free Substack post on all the holistic ways to protect your brain - How Can I Avoid Alzheimer’s (Part 2). It’s amazing the extent to which we can control our risks.
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Read how stopping HRT suddenly puts women at risk of fractures, and staying on it reduces risk of osteoporosis by 25%. Yet some GPs are still refusing to continue HRT prescriptions. Everyone needs to catch up wit the evidence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
July 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Read how stopping HRT suddenly puts women at risk of fractures, and staying on it reduces risk of osteoporosis by 25%. Yet some GPs are still refusing to continue HRT prescriptions. Everyone needs to catch up wit the evidence www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
My new Substack investigation on How to Avoid Alzheimer’s is up, inspired by my mum Ella. Clue: get your hormonal glasses on!
Read it here: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
Read it here: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
July 18, 2025 at 6:52 AM
My new Substack investigation on How to Avoid Alzheimer’s is up, inspired by my mum Ella. Clue: get your hormonal glasses on!
Read it here: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
Read it here: substack.com/@katemuir/no...
My new Substack essay ‘Is My Phone Making Me Dull?’ Is up here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
July 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
My new Substack essay ‘Is My Phone Making Me Dull?’ Is up here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Why are we taught more about frogs than women’s health at school? Why don’t we know that women’s brains rewire up to three times in life, at the 3 Ps: puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause and that we are miracles of plasticity?It’s all here in my new weekly Substack open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
July 7, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Why are we taught more about frogs than women’s health at school? Why don’t we know that women’s brains rewire up to three times in life, at the 3 Ps: puberty, pregnancy and perimenopause and that we are miracles of plasticity?It’s all here in my new weekly Substack open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
My new free Substack is up. This week: Am I Having a Perimenopausal Libido Surge? featuring, among others, the writer Miranda July open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
June 27, 2025 at 8:13 AM
My new free Substack is up. This week: Am I Having a Perimenopausal Libido Surge? featuring, among others, the writer Miranda July open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
Read more about why we need a new cultural and health revolution on my new KateMuir Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
June 20, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Read more about why we need a new cultural and health revolution on my new KateMuir Substack here: open.substack.com/pub/katemuir...
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June 16, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Reposted by Kate Muir
“The so-called housing crisis is not about all housing. It’s really only about the dire shortage of what are referred to as affordable homes.,” writes two local activists in the Cotswolds.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...
What housing crisis?
The government has been approaching the problems with the UK’s housing market from the wrong direction
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June 14, 2025 at 7:01 AM
“The so-called housing crisis is not about all housing. It’s really only about the dire shortage of what are referred to as affordable homes.,” writes two local activists in the Cotswolds.
www.prospectmagazine...
www.prospectmagazine...