Penny Pijnenberg

a Dutch doctor on LinkedIn who apparently has... She's now working with menopausal women, but she apparently had been a doctor working in a care home.

And she was actually...

putting on a post saying exactly my thoughts, thinking, but isn't that if all these women would have had hormones earlier, maybe they would be in better health?

I think it's, yeah, our generation who's probably now kind of saying this is it.

Because it's quite, again, I'm not a doctor, I don't have any statistics, but if I look back at my mother,

Around her mid-70s, her problems started.

Her heart problems, her rheumatoid arthritis.

And basically the last 12 years of her life, she was living in really bad health.

It was like constant having to see different specialists.

One of her friends, who is a lot younger than me,

than my mother who's in her mid seventies now.

So in the last 12 months, she started to have similar issues.

She has osteoporosis.

She has some rheumatic issue where she had to take prednisone.

And I'm thinking, you know how it is when you have your car and the petrol is nearly empty and a little light will come on and you can probably still drive, I don't know, 10 miles, 20 miles.

And the way I see it is, so your period stops, your menopause.

So the red light comes on and maybe you can still, you know, have another 10, 15 years in reasonable good health.

But then it's like the car stopping.

Yeah.

And I think it looks like that the light going off, finally going off, the petrol tank being empty is around maybe your mid 70s.