menopause

It's been 12 months since my last period and I've been the healthiest and happiest I've been in my life. I thought I'd post about it for The Sciences. I've formed a theory that the scary stories about Menopause act like the Nocebo Effect, and people prime themselves to feel bad, so they...

Yet another Alt Med failure. Acupuncture doesn’t ease menopausal hot flashes, says study http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/health-and-fitness/health/acupuncture-doesnt-ease-menopausal-hot-flashes-says-study/article28278948/

My wife is menopausal and for the last few months has been trying hormone replacement therapy. Recently she started having vision problems, and when she read that this could be caused by the medication, she stopped taking it cold turkey. A few days later she started having vaginal bleeding...

I was hopeful when I came across this almost balanced BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5304880.stm Unfortunately, after reading the press release I was my usual angry self again: More money to be wasted on homeopathy headline shocker! I like the way they use the plural of ‘trial’...

Yikes! Italian university study shows that the month a women is born influences how early or late in life she'll enter menopause. Hot flashes, dear? What's your sign? http://www.foodconsumer.org/777/8/Study_Birth_Month_Affects_Menopause.shtml

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=24237 How do they know the time of onset of menopause isn't affecting the birth month? Linear thinkers...

I was trying to think of what the advantage of menopuase would be, but can only see the 'downside' of it in the form of such things as osteoporosis. So why menopause? What's the benefit?