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Honestly, it’s the kind of question most of us can’t answer until we take stock of how far we’ve come. It’s the kind of question that needs pretext—some history and living before it can be answered ...

For a long time, I thought menopause was mostly about hormones. Estrogen rises and falls. Progesterone shifts. The body adjusts. That was the story I knew. What I didn’t expect was how sensitive my ...