Do men go threw menopause?
Menopause is the complete shutting down of the female reproductive system. The word menopause literally means the permanent physiological, or natural, cessation of menstrual cycles, from the Greek roots ‘meno’ (month) and ‘pausis’ (cessation). In other words, menopause is the natural and permanent stopping of the monthly female reproductive cycles, and in human females who still have a uterus, this is traditionally indicated by a permanent absence of monthly periods or menstruation. The word is commonly used in regard to human females, where menopause happens more or less in midlife, signaling the end of the fertile phase of a woman’s life. Menopause is perhaps most easily understood as the opposite process to menarche. Menopause in women however cannot be defined simply as the permanent “stopping of the monthly periods”, because in reality what is happening to the uterus is quite secondary to the process. For medical reasons, the uterus is sometimes surgically removed (hysterectomy) i