Dr Natalie Crawford
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We're specifically talking about mental health because you brought up the suicide chart.
And so post-menopause, like once everything calms down and you're fully menopausal, you're out of the zone of chaos.
The hormones have just... They're slow.
Your bones continue to deteriorate.
A lot of other things are happening.
But our cognitive, our mental, our brain tends to calm down and things get better in the brain.
Menopause is a day, right?
Medically, menopause is one day in your life.
One day exactly after your final menstrual period.
What's the point of that random definition?
Because what if it's leap year?
Do we go 366 days?
What if you've had an IUD?
What if you've had all these things?
It's really an antiquated definition, and we really need to modernize it.
Correct.
I mean, they're trying.
They're trying.
So what they're doing is looking at is there a way to extend?
Let's say ovarian function.