Rethinking Menopause

I am 42 years old. At this time thoughts and reflections about my personal looming menopause are still few. I have not yet begun to brace for the tumultuous midlife transition associated with hot flashes, night sweats, weight gain, and libido changes. However two different headlines about menopause just caught my attention and now I am obsessed with the following question: “What if we have it all wrong about menopause?”

Here are the two articles that caught my eye and made me question everything I know about menopause:

Article #1

Hot flashes connected to heart attacks and cognitive decline, studies say 

A recent study concluded that women who experienced frequent hot flashes in their mid forties are twice as likely to experience a heart attack or stroke. It also concluded that women whose hot flashes were more persistent  were up to 80% more likely  to experience a cardiovascular event. Original article

Article #2

Why Won’t Menopause Symptoms Quit?

A  2019 study discovered that hot flashes and other symptoms associated with menopause actually continue into the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Original article 

WAKE UP CALL

Does anyone else find this research extremely jolting?   What I get from this is that hot flashes are indicative of something far more sinister than we accept at this point and that menopause is actually a 40 year plus transition.  This is much longer than we currently believe. Could what we know as menopause actually be the onset of a new and more permanent state of decreased vitality?

WHY AM I FREAKED OUT?

As I reflect on the words I use to describe menopause I ask myself “Why do I use the words ‘looming’ “tumultuous” and “brace” to describe my upcoming menopause? Is it actually a bad thing? Is it scary? What made me process the upcoming shift with negativity and dread? Why isn’t it perceived like puberty, a natural beautiful magical human process of the most perfect divine design?

Is it possible that the symptoms associated with menopause are actually symptoms that just happen to coincide with approximately 50 years of living in a world where we are inescapably exposed to toxins? I am starting to think so and the studies mentioned above confirm it.

Could it be that it takes around 50 years for the body to reach toxic overload? 

Has our post industrial society of efficiency and technology left every single woman inescapably exposed to a toxic load that enters her body, never leaves, and wreaks havoc on her body and mind in perpetuity? 

Perhaps 5 decades is about all the female body can handle. 5 decades of breathing chem trails, gas fumes, spray deodorants and hairspray. Of being slathered with petroleum based lipsticks and paraben packed body lotions.

LOOKING FOR ANSWERS

That’s a lot of questions I do not have answers to. Best selling author Anthony William suggests an view of menopause that I resonate with:

“Prior to the 1950s, women looked forward to menopause, as it typically signaled a time of increased energy, heightened libido, and a slowing of the aging process”

– Anthony William, Medical Medium Blog (Source)

William is known as the Medical Medium. His extremely vast medical knowledge, accurate medical diagnoses and healing powers are delivered to him directly from ‘Spirit’. He suggests that toxic liver overload is the actual culprit that we incorrectly associate with menopausal symptoms. He suggests that radiation, DDT and the Epstein bar virus have been concomitantly and cumulatively overburdening women’s livers since the early 1900’s.

WOMEN OF THE FUTURE

Will we see menopause symptoms onset sooner in a younger generation of women who all slept in toxic cribs, whose school lunches sat all day in plastic containers, and whose homes always smelled fresh of synthetic lavender? 

William claims that with today’s toxin and viral exposure it is estimated that we will now see a much younger generation presenting with menopausal symptoms in their 30’s and younger.

SCIENCE AND RESEARCH ARE NOT THERE YET

Today the Health app on my iPhone told me that my period is likely to start. I expect it will. Not because scientific research told me so but because I intuitively know it.  I feel the energy, the surge of the divinely orchestrated release that is impending. I accept this union of science and technology with my body as it feels authentic and harmonious.

However right now I am unable to accept what science and research tells me about what is about to happen to me during my menopausal years.

When my magical woman powers shift their energy from reproduction to another glorious gift, I don’t think it should be a negative or uncomfortable experience. I think something else is going on. 

Thus here begins my journey into menopause and my rejection of what science and research currently tells me what should happen.