Commentary on a NY Times article on Menopause

To my patients, In a recent Sunday New York Times there was an article entitled, “Why do we dread menopause” by a professor named Susan Mattern from the University of Georgia. In it she highlights that if you Google search “menopause and…” you come up with a whole assortment of very negative symptoms like weight gain, depression, hair loss, etc. She goes on to state that such a bleak view of menopause is unique to only modern cultures. She goes into great length about the ...