menopausal

A great example of the impact is the use of hormone replacement in menopausal women.

I've long held the belief that bio-identical hormone replacement should be a cheap and available option for peri-menopausal and post-menopausal women.

The idea that a typical post-menopausal woman could easily obtain any kind of health insurance on the individual market prior to the ACA is laughable.

Use of hormone replace went way down, plenty of women suffered from menopausal symptoms for a few decades.

The women studied were all post menopausal (many more than 1-2 years out) had varying risk factors for disease.

This is the connection to why 2/3 of alzheimer's are post-menopausal women and why HRT is important.

Just going to clarify a point made about the WHI Study of HRT in post-menopausal women.

Estrogen extracted from pregnant women’s urine used to be used as a supplement for menopausal women.

There's also a link between post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy (older women taking estrogen after their body ceases production) and breast/uterine cancer.

It was used to market estrogen supplementation, among other spurious remedies, to post-menopausal women.

We make much in western culture of the (peri-)menopausal change in women.

Older, post-menopausal women have higher requirements for calcium than other groups.

So post-menopausal women are now required to buy a more expensive plan that includes maternity coverage because, "insurers aren't allowed to exclude sick people anymore." Sure...that makes sense.

Systematic issues, like "let's sterilise the undesirables!" or "let's torture the neurodivergent!" or "let's tell women they're menopausal, or that they need to lose weight, when they present with stroke symptoms", are only addressed once the general consensus is that they need to be addressed.