Debilitating menopause symptoms

Physicians rarely realize that the characteristic ungainliness of older women is not so much a matter of stiff joints – although they, too, are involved – but is caused chiefly by the nitrogen starvation of muscles and ligaments.

Other early menopause symptoms can also bring on the same kind of tissue starvation due to negative nitrogen balance also occurs in the internal organs of postmenopausal women. The heart, the stomach and intestines, the smooth muscle of the major arteries, the bronchial tubes, the bladder – all become damaged in some degree.

This explains why menopause is so difficult to define as a specific disease yet can produce truly catastrophic conditions for the whole body.

26 February 2008 | Health