Menopause Through a Root Cause Lens - #139

Most women enter menopause expecting hot flashes and sleep disruption. What nobody tells you is that menopause is also a window of increased vulnerability to some of the most significant disease states of your lifetime — cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, autoimmune conditions, cognitive decline, osteoporosis, and cancer.
Menopause doesn't cause all of these. But it creates the biological conditions that accelerate them in women who already have underlying vulnerabilities, most of which have been building for decades, completely undetected. Here's what I've come to believe after…