Big meno hall monitor energy

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There is a lot of big hall monitor energy in the peri/menopause world today. 

People telling us what to think, how to feel, what to do, how to act. What to call our private parts, how to masturbate and with what, details about the foods and supplements we should and shouldn't take and eat (this week I saw someone pit a bowl of black beans against a steak in some sort of bizarre protein-off) and how to move our bodies and when. 
This extends to what we should do about menopause – the biggest transition of all the transitions. 

Another bizarre turn: a woman writing to a British advice column who clearly had the worst, you-should-leave-him husband ever, being told HRT might fix it. 

HRT might fix it, but I doubt it. It's probably more likely to help menopause symptoms, which is all it's recommended for at the moment by the people who count. 

I'd like to remind you (and myself) that there is no Board of Directors of the Way Menopause Should Be – self-a…