The real problem here is that we're even saying there should be "a choice between funding menopause prevention or deadly ovarian cancer"... I'm sorry what? Half the world population is GUARANTEED to be affected by menopause, which _undisputedly_ has negative health effects, and we _HAVE TO CHOOSE_ ?? How about they are both priorities?! We mess with women's hormones without question from the moment they/we turn 14 on average, why the sudden hesitation? My GP put me on the pill at 15 without asking questions before or after. I'm waiting for the day I hear men say "should the money go to viagra research or testicular cancer research?"... because they never will. And yet we're the ones birthing the children.
I’m down with delaying menopause, currently going through perimenopause has been HELL and miserable. Not having a period may seem to be a good idea for some, but for me I have experienced extreme pain throughout my body, crazy mood swings, anxiety, depression, and being on FIRE (hot flashes is an understatement for me). HRT has been a Godsend for me. Right now I’m battling with foot pain, I can describe as walking on Legos. I need my grandmother and mother also suffered a lot, so I definitely inherited from them.
Even if the research uncovers why periods are painful for many and the fluctuations in moods, that would be a win. Pros and cons to delaying menopause but if it prevents degenerative diseases like osteoporosis and risks of cancer then worth looking into.
HRT does prevent these things currently and I’ll add many women go through surgical menopause so for them this drug that interacts with the ovaries doesn’t help if you no longer have them.
The economy is also a bottom line in this research, by the way - which I'm shocked nobody is talking about. The world now REQUIRES many women to build careers (not just for economic production purposes, but also because they are now doctors, researchers, judges, etc. required for society to keep running) which takes a lot of time and focus - men remain fertile (albeit less so) well into their 60s or longer. Women have to decide to have children before 40, generally, which not only requires time off (non-negotiably) but also interrupts their career and often stalls it. This is in direct conflict with what we also need from women economically. Then, living longer, women also remain a longer 'strain' on economic resources after retirement.
That simply doesn’t scan correctly in English. Just being a normal standard person isn’t “risky”. It’s normal. It’s the base human experience. You can certainly improve outcomes with medical extras. It is an extra. We’re not talking about correcting something broken.
@TheWorld-hm4vi that is true! I went through menopause 7 years ago and although it was it extremely hard for a few months and I have been better medically. I had a stroke when I was 24 during labor with my first child... I have been on blood pressure medications ever since. My blood pressure has been normal or little below for the past 6 years now. I was taking 6 meds for high blood pressure and I am now down to 3 and one of those 3 is down to 10 milligrams. I also am a cancer survivor for years now and all the inflammatory issues...gone! No more steroids! So, that is not necessarily true. All of my friends have gone through menopause and many have chosen to go naturally like I did and are doing just fine! The only thing that didn't get was my chronic insomnia is still hanging around but after 2 or 3 days my body will give and finally sleep VS. the sometimes week long stints of inability to sleep. I was only birthcontrol when I was young for about 6 months before I forced to go off due to high blood pressure when I was21. I have been in menopause for 7 years and 6 years of that has been normal blood pressure! So, it's not all that bad! Besides, if my mother, and grandmother could do it I figured so could I! My hair has changed, and my skin is a little dryer and thinner but I am 60 and I earned every gray hair on my had. I am the first person on my dad's side of the family to live past 50 so I am pretty comfortable with my age and thankful to still be here for my children and grand kids. My friends and I would say menopause is totally doable the natural way! Fortunately I don't carry the gene that has caused all the female reproductive cancers in mother's side of family. Many of those are estrogen binding cancers. No estrogen reduces those risks too. There are lots of us out there who have gone the natural way and are happy and healthy!
This is a wonderful start for womens health. However, I wish they would do more work on how to make menopause easier for us. I'm 34 and in surgical menopause. I volunteer for a group helping women learn how to manage their lives post surgery. Gyno's get half a day's learning on menopause and less than that on surgical menopause. With such little training they are removing ovaries and then are unable to help women with the consequences. Some women in surgical menopause live as though we've an autoimmune disease, in face developing comorbidities is very common. That being said. Thank you for bringing awareness to women in menopause and the struggles we face.
@@manatee2500genetically a woman...as in born with all the typical female hormones, body parts, more active areas of the brain, etc etc. That is a woman
Am I totally in the wrong, but my mom had a (costly) hormonal treatment so that she was just fine with the 'change'. I would imagine this is available even in the UK as well as it has been the standard in the Nordics for 30 years. (Also similar treatment for men has been the standard in Finland for some 25 years.)
Yeah you can get HRT for the physical symptoms but it doesn't extend fertility once the eggs run out and the longer you're on it the more the risk increases for things like blood clots, heart disease and cancer, so if you hit menopause early it's slightly more risky.
@@Steph-zo5zkactually HRT reduces risks for these. There was a complete reversal of advice in 2023 regarding HRT and it is considered a recommended lifetime treatment for most women.
@@r8chlletters I'm terribly sorry that I don't know much of the medicine that my parents are having. Also - my mother had cancer 11 years ago so I really don't know the specifics. (Actually I know quite a bit but I can't say things on youtube since it is not allowed.) What I do know is that the treatment my parents get is in the hunders of thousonds of euros. But they have payd for it in their life time.
@@toms5996Drs say go into HRT with eyes wide open about serious risks. Upping men's testosterone is not dangerous like HRT for women. No doubt that's where the money flows..to keep men feeling masculine with any pharma they can sell.
You should look into all the diseases menopause is related to. HRT is a prevention for depression, anxiety, dementia, bone loss, cancer, heart disease, stroke, hair loss and more.
I just let menopause take its natural course and I am loving every second of being post-menopausal. God knows what She's doing, folks! I do not miss the worrying about pregnancy for decades and at 72, what an awful surprise THAT would be!!
I'm perimenopause and it has exacerbated my mental health issues. Ehat an ignorant comment. No two people are a like. I see now why women tend to kill themselves later in life. So ignorant
lol she says their is no benefit to menopause? That seems insane that a scientist would utter that. The rate of chromosomal disorders in pregnancy doubles every year after 40. The rate of maternal death, pregnancy complications, all much higher for a 45 year old pregnant women… imagine the outcome be at 72….
@@LoriCianithanks for sharing so honestly. Women need to hear the reality of being a mother late, young girls are being brainwashed into believing they can have it all and they are entitled to what they want whenever they choose!
Why would you want to? By 40, I was begging my doctor for an endometrial ablation and couldn’t wait for an end to the monthly soaking, debilitating cramps, and anemia. Finally got one at 44, and it’ revolutionized my life. 2 years later, I still worry about the flood coming back, and I still have so much pain. I can’t wait for the day it all ends.
Hurray ! Got rid of the monthly troubles. So glad. Fantastic HRT plasters keep me in hormone balance and a constant stable heartrate. And thereby good nights sleep. Great for my health and hair and skin.
Kidding right ? Period keeps women healthy..it should as loooongggg as possible..love to delay menopause..in spite of all the cramps and pains..not close to menopause yet nor I have time to think about it..take birth control that will delay menopause
Delay does not mean deny. Development of treatment can ease that period if a woman's life could be more useful. But I can understand for women who have a predisposition for early onset menopause.
for me the menopause is a bad joke, I like the way how my body was working through whole my adult life. I am 42 now and I am still ok and normal but I am worried already that this can stop. I like the bleeding and whole that cycle, maybe because I have been never dealing with any PMS syndrom, no pains, no problems, always at time... I will miss it. I would like to know if it's possible to delay the age when it will come. I felt good like a female with all what belongs to it, but menopause is not fair. Men don't have such a thing at all that one day their life and also some abilities will change completely (for example the ability to get pregnant). also this that we will be born with exact amount of eggs, it's terrible in the fact ;) our eggs are getting to be older while sperms are always fresh ! Oh. Not balance in this world for a woman ;))
Try nmn heard a lot than it does brings back cycle after menopause even thou it depends how much the decline of the ovaries are If it’s initial decline nmn does work But as your bleeding and your 42 you seems young and I’m sure there shouldn’t be any sign of peri or menopause Go for nmn or bad so the levels can get more higher and the ovaries keep rejuvenating than
It actually makes complete sense. The human body is not designed for birth in the 50-100 age. Even if you could make it possible I suspect it would be one of those cases of should we have.
This is interesting. My daughter though only 10 years old has an adrenal gland insufficiency. Any health improvements during perimenapause would be great for her. I am hoping for not only scientic progress in her condition so she does not take steriods her entire life , but also having help entering menapause would make the transition even easier would be great. As long as the long side affects are minimal. As a mom I am always thinking and wanting to expose new medical strategties to minimize stress -medical or mental for her quality of life- she does not produce her own cortisol. Steriod use all her life will affect her bones as will the menapause stage in her life. Anyways wishing this endeavor helps many.
@Anna-te5vt , no my daughter does not have addison's disease. I have no need to shared her speciified condition. There are many adrenal glands insufficiencies and addison's disease is just one of them. My daughter was diagnosed shortly after her birth. Please don't assume you know my daughter's condition just because I said she has an adrenal gland insufficency. Not every parent wants to share the exact genetic condition their child has. My daughter and many with her condition have no alternative at this time other than to take the steriods to replace what my daughter does not make in her adrenals on her own. Only now are those with this condition over the age of 18 can trials of stem cell options taking place...nothing yet approved -all trials. I watch diligentry to learn of alternative so when my daughter is 18 of age she can make her own educated descisions on how she wants to manage her body. @@1964_AMU
@@1964_AMU no my daughter does not have addison's disease. I have no need to shared her speciified condition. There are many adrenal glands insufficiencies and addison's disease is just one of them. My daughter was diagnosed shortly after her birth. Please don't assume you know my daughter's condition just because I said she has an adrenal gland insufficency. Not every parent wants to share the exact genetic condition their child has. My daughter and many with her condition have no alternative at this time other than to take the steriods to replace what my daughter does not make in her adrenals on her own. Only now are those with this condition over the age of 18 can trials of stem cell options taking place...nothing yet approved -all trials. I watch diligentry to learn of alternative so when my daughter is 18 of age she can make her own educated descisions on how she wants to manage her body.
I thought menopause lasted for a few months but no..... it last for 7 to as long as 14 years! I get cranky when my period is coming, what's menopause going to be like?!
Yeah I can't believe people were just quietly suffering through it for so long before medical research decided it was worth treating and normalizing. Are you able to tolerate birth control? If so then HRT can help a lot with symptoms.
Menopause lasts the rest of your life. The symptoms may wane but the actual diseases you may ultimately suffer from are expedited by a lack of hormones. We are talking about cancer, stroke, dementia, bone loss and many more. HRT works to help prevent many serious consequences of menopause and is now recommended for almost all women.
Menopause doesn’t last for 7 years it lasts forever. What do you think it means? To you think it means the transition time to menopause. Meno: mensturation, pause: stop. It lasts until death
Periods are a tiny slice of what's effected when your hormones plummet. They regulate *everything*. Think aging rapidly. My active health-nut mother had a total hysterectomy at 31 when drs were very ignorant. I'm convinced that played a critical role in her death at 57. Wild animals and our pets have a fertility cycle until death.
Delaying the menopause? I can't wait to be period-free. I don't need eggs or periods. So if hormones are all I need, why doesn't science just work out how to be a woman with all the necessary hormones without the pain and inconveniences of periods?
you can do this already with contraception. there is no reason to have your period if you are taking contraceptive pill (or other hormonal contraceptives). just don't take the sugar pills. it also decreases your risk for endometrial and ovarian cancer, and if you aren't otherwise at higher risk for blood clots then there isn't really a problem taking contraceptives long term - there are of course different types which will be better for different people.
Worst for me is sleep anxiety and sleep apnea anxiety, u.t.i, ibs my pms got worse in the perimenopause, painful periods, night sweats cold flushes, crawley skin, panic attacks😢
@@5-es4mnif you go outside and look around, everything you see comes from the Y chromosome. The phone in your hand, the electricity that charged it, even the house you're sitting in, and the road you took to get there.
Inuit women do not know menopause. There is a social consensus about it in our societies. African women are menopaused around 40, this is not a biological condition, but a social pressure feature.
Сказали включать у меня на "частной собственности" ультразвук через микрафоны и убить мою собаку ,собака не может гулять ,,они заплатили за убийство меня и моих родителей !
It’s called andropause ( meno stays for menses , so periods , men don’t h get menopause cause they don’t get periods on the first place ) and it’s more about testosterone getting on very low level than stopping ejaculating
@@salvolondon thanks I get you. I used to wonder if this issue of men not ejaculating is the same as menopause in men because it's a common issue now many men are going through.
No thanks. I wouldn’t want periods ever again. Maybe, if we can invent a drug that enables us to reabsorb the menstrual gore internally instead of sloughing it.
Awful news given today’s female’I want it all AND I can have it all’ attitude! Young teenagers are offered the contraceptive injection to stop periods, so they are pumping hormones into their bodies until they’re ready to have a family. However most women these days want a career therefore they have children a lot later on and if they have been on the pill for years it takes time to get back to fully functioning ovaries. Now they are going to be able to have babies at 50+ and considering a pregnancy at 30yrs old is classified as‘geriatric’ in my opinion it’s not a great idea! Why not invest in research to make the perimenopause phase & the menopause easier and less unpleasant? Totally agree with keeping our brains active and not suffering from avoidable ailments but this seems a step too far. Done for the right reasons there’s great value in this but having witnessed my own daughter being pushed into stopping her periods by her P.E. teacher and without any question from the GP, it leaves me wondering if we’re going to end up in a generational caos.
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