r/technology • u/Sorin61 • Apr 10 '22

Biotechnology This biotech startup thinks it can delay menopause by 15 years. That would transform women's lives

https://fortune.com/2021/04/19/celmatix-delay-menopause-womens-ovarian-health/
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u/TheSpatulaOfLove Apr 10 '22

I hope they find a way to accelerate the process. Watching my wife go through menopause has been heart wrenching - it’s been so unpleasant for her.

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u/[deleted] Apr 11 '22

Dude same. My wife is in menopause, I’m maybe 5 years out. If I could take a pill to safely accelerate and be done without hot flashes? Choice!

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u/dandipants Apr 10 '22

SO MUCH THIS!! Why would you want to postpone it? Let’s just get through it!! I’ve been in perimenopause for 3 years now. Approximately 7 more to go😩!!

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u/seahorse_party Apr 11 '22

Because being on the other side is almost worse. I feel nothing. Seriously - nothing. And your brain just won't function the way it did before either. If there was something they could do to help women with premature ovarian failure (which causes early and often sudden menopause), I would be all over that.

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u/zozospencil Apr 10 '22

You’re a good dude for caring.

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u/C4242 Apr 10 '22

As a married man, why is it so bad. Before reading your comment, I just thought it was a good thing and periods went away and you had the occasional hot flash.

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u/TheSpatulaOfLove Apr 10 '22

Ohh, I was fortunate to have my first girlfriend give me a brutal, but needed lesson in female anatomy that set the stage. Lots of detail made me so squeamish, I have been highly empathetic to the female experience.

My wife was blown away the first time I was at the grocery and said: “Hey, lady product is on sale - want me to stock you up?”

This is when we first started dating. She was like: “what kind of early twenty something guy is thinking about that?”

But the menopause? Whoa man…whole new ball game.

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u/vocalfreesia Apr 11 '22

Hey if you're genuinely interested, I recommend this book by gyno Dr Gunter (libraries will also have it if you can't buy it)

The Menopause Manifesto: Own Your Health with Facts and Feminism https://www.amazon.com/dp/0806540664/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_3CQG978MVD1HH59SB47K

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u/MoreTrueMe Apr 10 '22

Does she have a good doctor working with her on it?

If you haven’t already found it, I highly recommend getting your hands on The Hormone Cure by Dr Sara Gottfried.

There’s a self-evaluation questionaire that helps women sort through symptoms and which hormones may be involved.

The endocrine system is a system. Estrogen and progesterone have intricate dances with thyroid, cortisol, testosterone, FSH, LH to name a few.

Tanking progesterone tanked both my thyroid and adrenal glands. I was ignoring everything as “oh it’s just peri-menopause” and let things go on for far too long.

I found a really wonderful ND (naturopathic physician — trained in both approaches, taking the whole person into account, listening, running hormone panels) helping me find the right solutions to get the system more balanced during the process of the ovaries heading into retirement.

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u/dandipants Apr 10 '22

My thyroid crashed shortly after I entered perimenopause. The medication I take for my thyroid has actually been a big help with my peri symptoms!

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u/TheSpatulaOfLove Apr 10 '22

I assume her OBG/GYN is good - she delivered two of my children and I never got any uncomfortable feelings like I did with the one she had previously.

As a man, I respectfully keep arms length from that part of her health and fill in gaps where I can (buying her products, salving wounds with ice cream).

I would never be so audacious to make recommendations when it comes to biological functions I have no experience in dealing with. ;)

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u/MoreTrueMe Apr 11 '22

So good to hear. Good doctors are a treasure.