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"Does it often feel as if the perimenopause road could go on forever, and you&amp;#039;re not sure when this particular party will end? Well, there is one interesting predictor of when you might reach menopause. Were you born in March? Or October? Scientists in Italy have found that the season of a woman&amp;#039;s birth may influence the timing of menopause. In particular, those women born in March reached menopause earliest by almost two years \u2014 48 years, 9 months \u2013 compared to those women born in October who reached this milestone the latest at 50 years, 3 months. And this held true for the 3000 women subjects, even after taking into account other mitigating factors, such as age of menarche, body weight and smoking (which speeds up the age at which you reach menopause). Coincidence? Researchers think not. It could be that such things as sunlight and temperature influence prenatal development. So much so that it might mean a woman born in the fall has more oocytes (eggs) than her sister born in the spring, which could account for the later menopause. One of the frustrating things about perimenopause is that there&amp;#039;s really no telling when the journey, and its accompanying symptoms, might end. But now, I suppose, we might have a clue. Perhaps there&amp;#039;s something to the daylight-savings time adage after all: spring forward, menopausally-speaking, and fall back. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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