CAN YOU DELAY MENOPAUSE?

Gwyneth Paltrow thinks menopause needs “rebranding”, and we couldn’t agree more. She says it gets a “bad rap”. And it does. Unlike childbirth or our periods, menopause isn’t something we readily discuss; do you remember your grandmother ever talking about it? Or hearing about it in school? In most Western societies it’s always been seen as just something inevitable that women have to “get through”.

But what if you didn’t have to just get through menopause? What if you could delay it for, say, 20 years?

Well, a clinic in the UK has recently started offering a service to do just that by using a medical breakthrough previously designed for cancer patients.