AGE OF RENEWAL
nless you’re going through what television’s iconic Golden Girls ominously described as ‘the change’, for many women, our knowledge of menopause extends as far as the cliché of hot flashes and mood swings. By 2025, over a billion women globally will be post-menopausal, according to the North American Menopause Society. Yet despite its universality, Dr Sylvia Ramirez of Cutis Medical Laser Clinics believes the attitudes towards menopause have remained largely unchanged: that is to say, negative, with menopausal women still being dismissed as “irritable, emotional and erratic”. Little has been done to rebrand menopause after 19th-century physicians identified hysterical fits as one of 50 symptoms, perpetuating
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