The Theme for World Menopause Day 2025 is Lifestyle Medicine

Download Menopause marks a significant physiological transition with far-reaching implications for women’s long-term health and wellbeing. While not a disease, the menopausal transition can be accompanied by symptoms and health risks that warrant personalised, holistic approaches to care.

About World Menopause Day

World Menopause Day is held every year on 18 October.

The International Menopause Society (IMS), a global non-profit founded in 1978, created World Menopause Day in 2009 to raise awareness of menopause and improve the experience of women everywhere. 

As the founder, IMS sets the annual theme, commissions and publishes the White Paper, and develops accessible resources to support women, healthcare professionals, and communities worldwide.

We celebrate the many medical advances and the increase in public awareness in recent years, but there’s still much more to be done.

Each year, World Menopause Day shines a spotlight on the challenges facing women during the menopause transition and highlights improvements in research, education, and support.

2025 Theme: Lifestyle Medicine

The Role of Lifestyle Medicine in Menopausal Health

Menopause marks a significant physiological transition with far-reaching implications for women’s long-term health and wellbeing. While not a disease, the menopausal transition can be accompanied by symptoms and health risks that warrant personalised, holistic approaches to care.

White Paper & Factsheets

The 2025 IMS White Paper highlights a growing body of evidence supporting lifestyle medicine as a foundational, non-pharmacological strategy to improve menopausal symptoms, reduce chronic disease risk, and enhance quality of life.

The IMS White Paper, The role of lifestyle medicine in menopausal health: a review of non-pharmacologic interventions, is available in the IMS journal Climacteric with free online access for everyone to read:

https://doi.org/10.1080/13697137.2025.2548806

The White Paper concludes that women can be empowered to navigate menopause with resilience, autonomy, and vitality by embracing the six pillars of lifestyle medicine:

• healthy eating
• physical activity
• mental wellbeing
• avoidance of risky substances
• restorative sleep
• healthy relationships

From the White Paper

Menopause, typically occurring between ages 45 and 55 years, is a natural life stage marked by hormonal changes that can affect the symptom burden, quality of life and chronic disease risk. While not a disease, the transition often requires individualized, holistic care. Lifestyle medicine – encompassing healthy eating, physical activity, mental well-being, avoidance of risky substances, restorative sleep and healthy relationships – offers a promising non-pharmacological strategy to optimize health during this period.

Additional resources and fact sheets To help share its insights, IMS has created six downloadable factsheets - one for each lifestyle area - offering clear, practical guidance on these key topics: Healthy Eating Factsheet Physical Activity Factsheet Mental Wellbeing Factsheet Avoidance of Risky Substances Factsheet Restorative Sleep Factsheet Healthy Relationships Factsheet This information is designed to promote health and wellbeing during and after menopause and to spark important conversations with healthcare professionals, families, and communities. Ways to share the factsheets: Print them and give them to friends, family, or colleagues. Share them in your workplace or send to your HR department. Offer them to local wellbeing clinics, yoga studios, or community centres. Email or message the download link to your wider network so everyone can access them. Healthcare professionals can share the factsheets with patients, and patients can share them with their healthcare providers to start meaningful conversations.