Menopause and Its Origins

Not so long ago, women never experienced any discomfort with ending their fertile years.  Menopause was viewed as positive. Medical literature produced up to the 1800s very seldom even mentioned menopause. Then around the 1950s, women started appearing at doctors offices in great numbers with all kinds of symptoms that had never been seen before.

Hot flashes, fatigue, panic attacks, anxiety, hair thinning, and joint pain, weight gain, moodiness.

At first doctors were so puzzled with the symptoms women were experiencing that they told them it was in their heads. They just couldn't understand it. Physicians reported the epidemic to pharmaceutical companies. Since the only thing these women had in common was their age, it was decided that the cause must be hormones, even though men were also experiencing the same symptoms. However, this wasn’t reported because at that time because men were supposed to be stoic, the societal pressure to be the breadwinner was enormous and men tended not to share symptoms of forgetfulness, depression and expanding waistlines, to name a few.

Naturally, a pharmaceutical company saw the opportunity to exploit and capitalize this false discovery of female hormonal issues. And that is how in the 1950s the news widespread that women must be suffering from hormonal deficiencies. To this day, the medical community still operates with this hormonal misinformation and many women believe that there’s something wrong with their hormones. Which is not true.

Menopause is on our side, in the sense that the aging process slows down after menopause -- exactly the opposite of the message we have been hearing. A woman's most rapid aging happens between puberty and menopause. We see that in a girl’s body and how quickly her body changes after her first menstrual period. That is the case because reproductive hormones are steroids compounds that speed up the aging process. By reducing a woman’s level of estrogen and progesterone, menopause also helps safeguard her from cancers, viruses, and bacteria. We have been told that (reproductive) hormones are the fountain of youth, but the irony is that true youth happened before puberty, so menopause is a way of reconnecting with that time.

Menopause ends the reproductive system’s cycle (and its drain on the body) and brings down hormone levels. It’s the body’s natural way of slowing down aging so you can live a long, healthy life.

Fluoroscope's Role

What is the reason for all the so-called menopause symptoms? This is related to three toxic elements:

• the Epstein Barr Virus, EBV

• radiation, the release of the atomic bombs and the widely use of the fluoroscope or x- ray shoe fitter

•  and the use of DDT 

These women who presented symptoms inthe 1950’s, had all been born in the 1900s, when they were exposed to EBV. The virus spends decades waiting for its moment to spread and cause havoc. It just so happened that women affected by the non-aggressive strains of EBV were in their 40s and 50s when the viral incubation period ended and the symptoms began. It was only coincidence that this was the same age of perimenopause or menopause.

Radiation exposure was a massive mistake. When millions of women and children used the fluoroscope, they were exposed to the most radiation ever seen in history. They might have been safer if they’d lived on the border of the Chernobyl evacuation zone in 1986! The idea of the shoe fitter was that it would help salesmen understand the bone structure of customer’s feet to help them get the best fitted shoes. This machine was sold in Canada,  the United States, South Africa and some countries in Europe. By the 1950s, the machine was removed from shoe stores as if it had never been there in the first place, when modern medicine was becoming aware of the dangers of radiation. This was in addtion to the increased radiation exposure due to the fallout from the World War ll bombings in Japan.

By 1950, DDT use was at its height, and the central nervous systems and livers of many women had become overloaded with the toxin. It was sprayed in parks, crops, and everywhere, since it was considered safe. It was the book By Rachel Carson, Silent Spring  that brought awareness to the public and ten years after its publication DDT was banned in the United States and many other countries. India is still today the biggest consumer of DDT. And it is still in our waters and in our tissues. It hasn’t gone away. By the way, it’s not a coincidence that when the massive chemical industry behind DDT took a hit from public awareness about its downsides, a new industry started to emerge and dominate: hormone treatment.

In the meantime, menopause became the scapegoat for dozens of symptoms that really had to do with completely different causes, like hot flashes, fatigue, heart palpitations and vaginal dryness.

This is not to say hormones can’t be the problem in some cases. When they are, the culprit is often overworked adrenal glands (adrenal fatigue) and/or an underactive thyroid, which can throw reproductive hormones off kilter at any age. The point, however, is that hormone imbalance may only be one piece of the puzzle. The good news is that all of these things—radiation, viruses, toxic load, and reproductive hormone issues—can be addressed with healing foods that tackle a wide range of pathogens and toxins that could be contributing to your symptoms. 

Menopause is a natural part of life that doesn't need to be “cured”.

#menopause #holisticnutrition #hormone

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I have based this information on Anthony William’s book, Secrets Behind Chronic and Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal. 

My understanding of how the body works is thanks to the light Anthony Wiliam has shed on the gaps Modern medicine has not been able to explain.