For years you have thought that one day you would be menopausal.

For years, you’ve been saying that you’re menopausal.

Your friends, your family, and your doctor say it. But saying that you’re menopausal is a distraction from reality.

The word menopause means the moment that your ovaries can no longer produce hormones to keep your body healthy and can no longer produce an egg for reproduction. Menopause comes from two words, meno = month referring to monthly cycles and pause = paused cycles. Together, these two words, menopause, means pause of monthly cycles.

Ovaries cycle every month and eventually, as the ovaries age, they will not be able to produce hormones to keep a woman healthy nor produce eggs for reproduction. The word menopause represents a single moment in time when the ovaries are too old to work anymore. The word menopause marks the exact moment in time when age-related ovarian failure occurs.

moment ovarian failure occurred = moment ovarian menopause occurred

Even though your ovaries are menopausal and not you, what is the harm is saying that you’re menopausal?

Why is it so important that a woman know that it’s her ovaries that are menopausal and not her?

Expectations.

If your focus is on your ovaries, you will look closely to copy which hormones your ovaries produce to restore your health to what it was before your ovaries permanently paused.

If your focus is on you, as a person, you would be more likely to look for symptom control with band aid measures instead of looking at the root cause.

What do you think about when you hear the word menopause? Hot flashes, likely, but what else? Vaginal dryness? Trouble sleeping? Inability to become aroused and orgasm? Emotionally distant? Anxiety? Generally, unhappy?

Typically, you and your doctor will work together to address each symptom. There are anti-depressants, sleep aids, psychotherapy, and vaginal lubricants. You could also do Kegel exercises to reduce urine leaking, use laxatives for a slower bowel, seek marriage counseling for sexless or significantly reduced sex in marriage, and see a therapist for stress as you see your body hair, including your pubic hair fall out, your breasts lose fat and shape, your middle spreads, you gain weight and your quality of life plummets.

Instead of focusing on the root cause of all of these symptoms, which are a result of menopausal ovaries, you accept these symptoms as expected for a menopausal woman.

Menopausal ovaries cause multiple severe hormone deficiencies. If you were to focus on reversing these severe hormone deficiencies your ovarian menopausal symptoms wouldn’t exist anymore.

Medical research has not proven that ovarian hormones are harmful to women because medical research has not been based on menopausal ovaries. Medical research has been based on the absurd notion that women are menopausal.

As long as medical research is not based on menopausal ovaries, it will continue to fail.