Jane Collins is a journalist, author and editor specialising in women’s health. She has over 30 years’ experience of writing for newspapers, magazines and websites including Top Santé, the Evening Standard, the Express, the Telegraph, Cosmopolitan, Woman & Home, Healthista, Lifespan and more.
She was Associate Editor and Health Editor of Bella, a weekly women’s magazine for seven years and is the author of two books: The Sex We Want (Pandora) and 10 Minutes to Positive Health (Reader’s Digest).
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Articles by Jane Collins
10 ways to establish, and maintain, healthier new habits
Read Health & Her's Top 10 tips to create healthy habits that stick!
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Do allergies get worse during perimenopause and menopause?
Learn about the connection between hormones and allergy symptoms, and get tips for managing these changes.
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What is ‘couplepause’, and how can it affect relationships in your 40s and 50s?
Couple-pause refers to when both partners in a relationship (generally in their 40s and 50s) are experiencing significant hormonal shifts at the same time - such as menopause and andropause.
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Can a vegan diet help with perimenopause and menopause?
Most of us have got the message that eating more vegetables is both beneficial for our health and that of the planet, but could following a vegan diet (completely free of all animal-derived foods) reduce troublesome menopausal symptoms? Mounting evidence suggests it...
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6 Healthy Benefits of Having Sex
Whilst no-one ever initiates or engages in sex with the intention of staving off heart disease there are a number of proven physical and psychological health benefits to regular sex (and let’s not forget it should be a pleasurable activity!). If perimenopause or...
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11 Ways to Support Your Libido
Female sexual desire can be fickle at the best of times. Frustratingly, it can be thrown off course by a range of things including your hormones, stress, tiredness, illness, certain medications (including some SSRI antidepressants, codeine, beta blockers and some blood pressure...
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Can cold-water swimming help menopause?
Could now be the time to dip your toe into cold water swimming to help ease your menopause symptoms? Cold water swimming, sometimes known as wild water, winter swimming or ice swimming, is done (as its name suggests) outdoors in cold lakes,...
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What is Menopause?
The term menopause – derived from the Greek ‘men’ which means month or monthly and ‘pausis’ which means end or stop – translates literally as the ending of your monthly menstrual cycle. It is a completely natural and normal stage of life...
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What is Menopause Belly and how to get rid of it
It should come as no momentous surprise to learn most of us pile on a few pounds as we get older. According to research by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality this weight tends to increase progressively – a pound or...
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What top 10 triggers make perimenopause and menopause worse (and what you can do about them)
More than a million women will experience perimenopause and menopause each year in the US[1] – a time when the sex hormones including estrogen start to go into freefall triggering a range of physical and emotional changes. Whilst there is not much...
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What is Perimenopause?
Perimenopause is defined literally as ‘around the time of the menopause’. Put simply, it is the stage of life when you’re still having periods but your hormones begin fluctuating, and diminishing, potentially triggering a number of physical and emotional changes. When does...
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