“Menopause Is a Good Thing!”
“There’s a larger purpose for [menopause]. There’s a reason we have it. There’s a reason we go through it.” -Dr. Susan Mattern, Ph.D.
On A Mind of Her Own, historian Dr. Susan Mattern, Ph.D., author of The Slow Moon Climbs: The Science, History and Meaning of Menopause, speaks to Jennifer Reid, MD about her book, arguing that menopause is not a disease, a mistake, or a modern artifact of longer lives, but rather an evolved and highly valuable stage of human life.
Dr. Mattern traces the idea of menopause as an illness to French doctors around 1700, then to Robert Wilson’s estrogen-promoting…
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