Wednesday, September 12, 2012

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Menopause-Manopause, Tomato, Tomaaaatooo …. who cares……

Posted: 11 Sep 2012 08:50 PM PDT

I’ve always had problems with the men versus women argument, I doubt it has a role in this day and age plus what really annoyed me was the old “religious education” classes back in highschool and the reasons they cited for why men and women are different (Yes, for the sake of brevity and not to show my own age, I am putting this rather mildly.) This included:

  • Because they have periods
  • And periods mean that hormones go up and down.
  • And when the hormones drop at menopause … they loose their minds.

This may sound like an exaggeration but it only sounds bad because you’re talking about  88-98 as opposed to the 2008-2k18 generation and because I’m not using the exact arabic phrases (I would if I had the textbook, sadly, it’s been lost to the ether).
I’ve always found the hormone defense very iffy. Don’t get me wrong women are different than men in many ways, and I’m a fan of these many differences (including the hoohoo), but I always felt that menopause wasnt one of them. For one thing although hormones do control emotionality to some extent, they occur in all of us, men and women produce both android and gynecoid hormones at different levels throughout their lives.

What is also interesting is the fact that these hormones, both android and gyneacoid have always been cyclical through out the animal kingdom and all across all mammals. The difference lies in the manifestations of these cycles. For example adult rams undergo a sort of seasonal menopause triggered by differences in the Day-night cycles (long days – hot nights, short days – dead pecker) this is obviously an adaptation of our own version of menopause so that the offspring are born under favorable conditions.

The interesting thing is that this “menopause response”is also found in a gaggle of other mammals and is pretty much symmetrical in males and females in that when the the female ram undergoes “mini” menopause, the males do too. They tend to be more aggression, agitation and fighting as well as more volatility in the male population of these ram.

So if animals have a mirrored behavior during menopause, wouldn’t it make sense that humans would too?!?!?! Could I be looking at a manopause in the far far far far far future? Chances are I will, sadly. The same study that proved the animal model for manopause  proposed that humans have similar symptoms as their gonadotropin hormones begin to fall and their endocrine pathways slow down, leading to a depressed, melancholic state, complete with hotflushes, whieght changes and a whole load of fun to look forward too.

So girls rest assured if your partner isn’t supportive when you and aunt flow part ways; know that Karma is a bitch and he’ll end up suffering from that same thing a couple of years later…..
Ofcourse for me the cigarettes and alcohol will kill me before I’ll ever have to think about it ….. I hope ……
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