managing menopause

Managing menopause, alcohol and the next chapter: Menopause or “The Change” as it was once referred to under hushed breath, is the start of a new phase in a woman’s life. It signals the end of her fertility and a life without menstruation. The word ‘menopause’ was invented as recently as 1821, by French doctor Charles-Pierre-Louis de Gardanne.  A rather surprising fact, given it describes a condition that affects half of the human population. Around 1700, doctors began to write about a condition they called “the end of menstruation as the time for the beginning of various diseases” where women

Managing menopause, alcohol and the next chapter as seen on The Hippocratic Post.