Re: Age of Menopause--was HRT and the non-risk patient
From: Marjorie Dacko, CM (dacko@accessnv.com)
Sun Nov 2 20:11:11 1997
Thanks for the information. One comment.....I was under the impression
that the age of menarche has been lowered due to the prevalence of
hormones, primarily estrogen, in the food supply. Anyone else think this
is true, or even possible???
Margie Dacko, CM
Nevada
At 06:32 PM 11/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
>The chapter on menopause in Speroff's <<Clinical Gynecologic Endocrinology
>and Infertility>>, Fifth Ed., 1995, is *excellent*. One of the issues
>discussed is age of menarche (which, of course, has been lowered due to
>improvement in health and living conditions) and the age of menopause. The
>onset of menopause has not changed appreciably over the period of recorded
>history. The author cites ancient writings ( Greek, etc.) which would lead
>us to believe that the age of menopause has always been at the age of 50
>years.
>Gerald P. Rodriguez, M.D., FACOG
>Santa Fe
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>> From: Marjorie Dacko, CM <dacko@accessnv.com>
>> To: Multiple recipients of list <ob-gyn-l@talk.obgyn.net>
>> Subject: Re: Hormone replacement therapy and the non-risk patient
>> Date: Sunday, November 02, 1997 1:22 PM
>>
>> If the human body was only meant to live for about forty years, then why
>> with improved conditions it appears to be able to double that number? I
>> have heard on many occasions that the human heart, lungs, brain, etc, are
>> capable of function for 100+ years, yet the ovaries give out at 40+
>> years.....doesn't make sense to me. Funny how improved conditions seems
>to
>> have advanced the "life" of most of the body's organs, but skirts the
>> ovaries!!! Any ideas of why this might have happened this why?
>>
>> Is there any research that speaks of when women of 150+ years ago, when
>> life expectancy was 40+, went through menopause? Did women start or end
>> menstruation at different ages then currently?
>>
>> Interesting subject.....making me rethink my thoughts about HRT.
>>
>> Margie Dacko, CM (post-menopausal and not on HRT)
>> Nevada
>>
>> At 01:06 PM 11/2/97 -0600, you wrote:
>> >At Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Gnfoster@aol.com wrote:
>> >>
>> >>One thing I've always wondered. Was "average life expectancy of forty"
>> >>skewed by very high infant mortality rates?
>> >>Neil Foster M.D.
>> >Yes and also by high Maternal Mortality rates too.
>> >
>> >--
>> >R.Daniel Braun, MD
>> >
>> > "Heisenberg might have slept
>here"
>> > Unknown or
>Indecisve
>> >
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