I think we might be making menopause sound worse than it is.
There. I said it again.
Before anyone comes for me, I am not saying menopause is easy. Some women are completely flattened by it.
But some aren’t.
The science tells us there is enormous variation in how women experience the menopause transition. Unfortunately, social media is not terribly interested in enormous variation. It prefers either a beautiful journey of feminine transformation or complete hormonal ruin.
Both make me tired.
In this Brain Camp, I’m looking at what the research actually tells us, why women reporting their symptoms matters and how all our complaining may be helping medicine understand menopause properly.
Because maybe menopause has not suddenly become worse. Maybe women have finally become harder to ignore. Hell yeah!
Watch the full Brain Camp below and let me know what you think.
Are we making menopause sound worse, or are we finally telling the truth about it?
