It was disheartening to watch the Oprah special on menopause with Halle Berry, Naomi Watts, and the fraudulent OBGYN turned self proclaimed Menopause guru, Mary Claire Haver. Basically the message they gave to women everywhere was, when perimenopause hits, you must get on prescription drugs or live a miserable and diseased life. What a load of crap.
I find it interesting how, and these women even admitted, women have been going through menopause since the beginning of time, but nobody ever talked about it. Well, yea! It's a normal transition in life we go through, not a disease that needs national attention and medical intervention! But like everything else in today's youth obsessed era, we must turn it into a marketing campaign
Have you noticed how everyone looks the same these days? You want lips like so and so? Buy them. A butt like so and so? Yep, you can buy that too. It's looking like a world full of expressionless barbie wannabes. All competing for that forever-young look. I find it grossly sad.
I refuse to get on drugs just because I'm aging. Half the symptoms these women hopelessly cry about can be prevented with lifestyle changes. No, I'm not talking about the wrinkles and saggy skin. That's just a normal part of aging. I'm talking about weight gain, joint pain, mood swings, insomnia, depression anxiety, vaginal atrophy, low libido, diabetes, bone loss, brain fog, just to name a few.
As for vaginal atrophy, like any other muscle, use it or lose it. Exercising your pelvic floor muscle brings healthy blood flow to that area which guess what...brings moisture. Haven’t you ever heard of vaginal weightlifting? yes it’s a thing.. look it up No need for pharmaceuticals. Just as healthy muscles make strong bones, not more estrogen.
These women advocate for heavy weightlifting, but when it comes to the vagina, only drugs will help. Bullshit!
Alcohol, processed foods, and inactivity cause most of the symptoms people complain about with age, AKA menopause. They are huge hormone disruptors, even in men and 20 year old women. But, people want a pill patch or potion instead of putting in the hard work.
So we have celebrities who are now reaching their menopausal years, making money off of it by selling bogus products that don't do shit, demanding everyone stop what they’re doing and listen to their protests about the natural consequences of aging, all while clinging tightly to their wine, cheese, starbucks, fast food, toxic relationships, and other lifestyle addictions.
Menopause is nothing new. Never before in history did women need to make menopause a worldwide protest until we started seeing aging as something that must be reversed. It's like a competition to see who can look the youngest, the older they get.
These women are getting rich off the biggest cash cow in the world. Women. How sick is that? We need to deal with the fact that we ALL lose our youthful good looks. It's inevitable. Focus on what you can control instead and you'll be much happier. Happy girls are the prettiest after-all.
These pharmaceuticals that are being dished out like harmless candy, will come with negative side effects, as all medications do. Estrogen is no different. We don't need the same amount of estrogen that we did when we were making babies, and to think that you can replace something your body no longer needs at the level it used to need it, is not only ignorant, but dangerous.
