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The Menopause

My Story At 51 years old, I have a few rather annoying menopausal symptoms that I hear other women my age struggling with.  Having worked in clinical practice since 2016, I have heard many women’s personal experiences of the menopause.  Each story sharing both positive and negative outcomes to treatments, all with one thing in common – science has yet to grasp the mechanisms of menopause, and how best to treat each individual women.  As a researcher, this is not a new topic in human body sciences. Therefore, to turn to the evidence-based research (science) to inform my understanding of how I can improve my menopausal symptoms may not provide the support I’m looking for.  When exploring menopausal symptom treatment choices of friends, family and patients, further confusion builds, and those of you who know me, I’m not going to read a persons blog! (The irony!). Consequently, that just leaves me …

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