Olympian Clara Hughes was used to pushing her body. But when menopause hit, her body pushed back

Olympian Clara Hughes was used to pushing her body in order to compete at the most elite levels of sport. But the onset of perimenopause, and later, menopause, she says, tested her in ways she could not fully comprehend. “Menopause literally messed me up so bad and turned me so far upside down that I didn't know which way was up and which way was down,” Hughes told The Sunday Magazine’ s Piya Chattopadhyay.