Menopause

Estrogen and progesterone help maintain gastrointestinal integrity through mucosal barrier, immune, and motility effects. Preventing menopausal hair thinning before it becomes substantial is generally easier than attempting to regain lost density afterward. Hypothalamic amenorrhea is not menopause and can reverse with nutrition, sleep, and stress reduction. Postmenopausal women showed lower microbial diversity than premenopausal controls in the cited study. Menopause is a universal biological transition for women, but individual experiences vary widely. Menopause is defined by 12 consecutive months without menstruation. Menopause is the permanent end of menstrual cycling after ovarian hormone production declines. Perimenopause is the transition when ovarian hormone production begins to decline. The article presents the standard 12-month definition of menopause as inadequate for many women. Menopausal women should not be treated as marginal or biologically irrelevant in medical research and industry. Despite nearly 50% of hair loss sufferers being women, hair-loss research has historically focused more on men, with even less research specifically on menopausal and postmenopausal wo…