According to the survey, the average age of menopause in mainland women is about 50 years old. If menstruation does not come for a year, unless pregnant, we can consider it a female menopause.
Since menopause means that a woman's body begins to enter a stage of prosperity and decline, many people take it for granted that the later the menopause, the better, and rejoice because of the late menopause. But is this really the case?
Effects of menopause on women's health
The ovaries are women's gonads, when women are officially menopausal, ovarian function will fail, without the development of growing follicles, the body can not produce enough estrogen, and estrogen is necessary to maintain the normal function of women's major organs.
Without the secretion of sex hormones, women will enter the menopause period, and this has become an important turning point in the decline of women's physiological functions.
In ancient times, most women had a relatively short life span, and some died very early, and there was no menopause at all. Now the average life expectancy of people has been extended, but the time of menopause in women has not changed much, and after menopause, a series of changes will occur in the female body.
First of all, the reproductive organs are atrophied and aging, which is manifested in the thinning of the vaginal mucosa, the reduction of vaginal secretions, and the narrowing of the vagina, which will lead to dry sexual life and difficulty in intercourse after old age.
Secondly, the urethra and bladder mucosa become thinner and the elasticity is weakened, which will lead to a decrease in human resistance and easy urinary tract infections; some menopausal women are prone to pelvic floor muscle relaxation, and it is easy to experience the embarrassing phenomenon of urinary leakage when coughing, laughing, and running and jumping.
Menopause marks the end of a woman's reproductive phase, just as puberty marks the beginning of the fertility phase. Menopause usually occurs gradually between the ages of 45 and 55 and ends within 2 to 3 years.
The shorter the menstrual cycle, the faster you will age?
Some people say that the shorter the menstrual cycle, the faster the old age, if the woman is calculated according to the more than 400 eggs in her lifetime, is it not who will finish the first and who will be old first?
In fact, it is certainly not right to speculate on a person's menopause time according to this number. Each woman's physical condition is different, and the number of ovulations is also different, generally 400-500 is possible.
In fact, for the ovaries, what is really fixed is the number of follicles. During puberty, a person's follicles have about 300,000 reserves, which is the reserve force of eggs.
A different number of reserve follicles are recruited each month to begin to develop, but generally only one follicle is fully mature and the egg is released. Those who are not selected will degenerate on their own and be permanently locked. Most menopause is due to empty "stock" of follicles.
Artificially can't control the rate at which follicles are consumed, so if your menstrual cycle is shorter than others, you don't have to worry about premature aging, maybe you just have dozens of more eggs than others.
Of course, if the menopause occurs before the age of 40, it is premature menopause, to consider the possibility of premature ovarian failure, it is recommended to go to the hospital to check it out quickly. At present, there is a trend of premature ovarian failure in mainland China, and about 1% of women have symptoms of premature ovarian failure just after puberty.
Is it really good to have late menopause? Not necessarily!
Everything has a law to speak of, and organs, like people, need to "retire" when they reach age. And the "ovaries" that should have retired, if they continue to let it work, will inevitably face a lot of pressure. If you are 60 years old and have menstrual cramps, don't be happy, but be careful, you need to go to the hospital for a good examination.
This is because the ovaries that continue to secrete estrogen are accompanied by an increase in the age of women, and due to the stimulation of estrogen that rises and falls, women will be prone to diseases such as uterine fibroids and breast cancer.
Data show that women who have menopause for more than 55 years are more than 1 times more likely to develop breast cancer than women who are menopausal in normal age. There are also data that show that women over the age of 55 who are menopausal, if the age of menopause is delayed for each year, the incidence of breast cancer increases by 50%.
In addition, as women age, the body's resistance will also decrease, and the arrival of each month's menstruation may increase the risk of bacterial infection, so that they suffer from gynecological diseases.
And if you have menopause, but the second time to menstruate, remember that this is not "return to youth", it is likely to be some disease signals, but also to pay enough attention to timely medical examination.
Therefore, menstruation is not the later the better, if there is a panacea on the market that "makes you delay menopause", don't believe that everything will develop according to "normal".
According to normal standards, from menarche to amenorrhea, a woman spends her life with a "big aunt" for more than 30 years. Whether it is the first time to come to the "big aunt" or the last time to come to the big aunt, these are the physiological phenomena that the routine of life has to experience.
Calm your own mentality, accept it calmly, regular work and rest, reasonable exercise, balanced nutrition, let the body be in a healthy state, the body is good, the ovaries will naturally be good, do not have to worry too much about the various effects of aging.