Women & Menopause It wasn't too long ago that lack of knowledge
and cultural embarrassment disguised natural female biological
functions under a cloak of terms such as 'the curse', 'that time
of month' and 'the change of life'. These cycles of life were
thought of in the same manner one would ascribe to a disease.
Times change, as does the female body, and now menstruation and
menopause can be uttered without a blush and understood as a
normal progression of life. Although menstruation and menopause
are and have been part of normal female development throughout
time, science and medicine still do not understand all of the
ramifications attached to these women only issues, especially
menopause. Aristotle noted that the menses cycles ended in women
around the age of forty five and it has taken all of these
centuries to learn more about what actually happens to the body
and the effects of this transition. It's really rather pitiful
that here, in the first decade of the twenty first century, we
are just beginning