Beyond Fertility, Crossing the Bridge

For the men and women in there forties, like young people in their teens, everything seems to change. Women’s ovaries are gearing down for the retirement called menopause. For both, your children start beating you at games, print grows smaller, rooms lack enough light to read, our skin loses its elasticity, and the body takes on wrinkles, bulges and sagging figures. Men lose hair they want to keep; women grow hair they want to lose.

The times relating to menopause are divided into three phas...