5 Things That Change After Menopause
Approximately 6,000 women reach menopause every day in the U.S. By 2025, there will be more than 50 million postmenopausal women in this country and more than 1.1 billion worldwide. Meanwhile, millions more women in their 40s will just be getting started. With women reaching menopause at an average age of 51, most of us will spend decades of our lives in post-menopause.
A growing body of research indicates that the lifestyle choices women make in the first few years after menopause can have a tremendous impact on their quality of life in the decades that follow. This is a precious window of opportunity that women can use to set themselves up for many healthy years to come — or not.
Why the focus on post-menopause? Because women’s bodies are drastically different after menopause.
To talk through all of these changes, host Barbara Hannah Grufferman welcomed Dr. Margaret Nachtigall, who is a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist at NYU Langone Health, to talk about 5 key changes that happen, why they are happening, and what you can do to mitigate some of the risks that are involved with these changes.
The biggest changes that occur after menopause take place in:
- your brain
- your heart
- your bones
- your vagina
- your waistline
Dr. Margaret and Barbara talk through all of these changes and offer tips on how best to mitigate your risks. LISTEN IN BELOW.
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