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Study of 300 million lab tests finds menopause triggers abrupt body-wide changes

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Menopause has long been treated as a slow shutdown of reproduction. An analysis of 300 million lab tests from women in the United States and Israel found a sharper pattern: 52 of 90 markers jump at the final menstrual period, across bone, liver, kidney, lipid and blood systems. Men showed no such step.

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It moves the window for prevention forward to the 40s.

from Study of 300 million lab tests finds menopause triggers abrupt body-wide changes · Updated 7 days ago

That cliff is a population measure, not what happens to each woman on the last day of her period. Each woman's menopause is like a fingerprint — personal and nontransferable.

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