08/09/2026
… I want to share this powerful perspective and words from Dr Gabrielle and Simone .
“ Menopause became incredibly profitable the moment women were taught to see it as biological failure.
That is the part of this conversation I refuse to ignore.
A woman spends decades menstruating, carrying children for some, breastfeeding, working, caregiving, holding families together, sleeping too little, eating on the run, living under artificial light and being rewarded for overriding every signal asking her to slow down.
She arrives at menopause carrying the physiological history of how she has lived.
And instead of beginning there, modern medicine has increasingly centered the conversation around what is disappearing.
Less estrogen, progesterone and fertility.
And conveniently, once the female body is understood primarily through deficiency, there is something to sell back to her.
This is about who controls the story of menopause.
Because the medicalization of menopause has a history. In the twentieth century, menopause was explicitly marketed as an estrogen-deficiency state, and hormones were promoted not simply for symptoms, but as a way for women to remain youthful, feminine and sexually desirable.
Chinese medicine offers a radically different framework.
A woman does not become defective when menstruation ends.
She enters another physiological season.
Her Blood, Yin and Jing reflect decades of expenditure and nourishment. Her body begins demanding conservation where the culture demanded endless production.
This is why I will not reduce menopause to a hormone replacement equation.
Menopause is not proof that nature forgot to finish designing the female body.
And women deserve far more than being frightened about everything that will happen to them if they do not medically replace what naturally changes.
The most powerful thing we can give women at this threshold is not another fear of their bodies.
It is the knowledge to understand them.
Because a woman who understands her body becomes much harder to control. “
Love Benton 🤍
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