LECTURER AND AUTHOR
Katarina is one of Swedens most prominent experts in women's health with a focus on perimenopause. She is often referred to as one of the pioneers both in Sweden and in the UK when it comes to spreading knowledge about the years before menopause. Katarina, with a background as a medical journalist, has lectured on the topic of the perimenopausal brain vs. exhaustion for the past six years. She has written two non fiction books, one has been translated into seven languages and has received a lot of media attention both in Sweden and abroad. She has also written four fiction scripts.
HOW IT ALL BEGAN
It all started 14 years ago when she herself suffered from inexplicable insomnia. Her doctors gave her the diagnoses burnout and depression and put her on anti-depressant medication but she refused as she felt in her whole body and soul that she was neither exhausted nor depressed. She just couldn't sleep.
PERIMENOPAUSE IS ABOUT THE BRAIN
After several years of studying the research and insights, she finally wrote the book Perimenopower, which was published in Sweden in 2018 and was quickly translated into seven languages. Thanks to this, she entered an international context with international menopause activists, doctors and researchers and continued her work. The science began to take hold and she decided to publish a new edition in Sweden with extra chapters on the brain when she discovered that menopause was not a reproductive transition but a neuroendocrine transition thanks to the groundbreaking research of Dr Lisa Mosconi. In other words, the decreasing hormones affects the brain. The book Heading for burnout or just perimenopausal? was released in 2022 in Sweden by the publishing house People and Stories.
LECTURES PERIMENOPAUSE
Her lectures are often the starting point for a strategic investment to reduce sick leave among women 40 plus. She also works at Femcare - one of Sweden's first regionally funded specialist clinics for women.
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