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Is There a Cure for Menopause?
Why we should stop treating it like a disease
Marisol sat across from me at the café, her silver hair catching the late-afternoon sun. At seventy-two, she carried the kind of quiet confidence that made my own jittery perimenopause symptoms — hot flashes, night sweats, and sudden mood swings — feel almost adolescent.
She stirred her tea and said, “You know, everyone keeps asking if there’s a cure for menopause. That question is the problem.”
I blinked, waiting for her to offer the latest hormone therapy tip or a secret natural menopause remedy.
Instead, Marisol leaned in. “Mainstream culture has trained us to fear aging and death. They sell menopause as a disease because it keeps women chasing youth and buying treatments. But you’re not dealing with an illness. It’s a natural life stage. It’s your body’s way of saying a new chapter is beginning. It isn’t something to fix but a passage to power. It’s a shift that once guided entire communities.”
“The world fears women who aren’t defined by fertility,” she said, smiling as if she knew a secret the culture was desperate to hide. “These women hold a power that the patriarchy can’t control.”
I took a deep breath, then let it out. What if Marisol, elegant elder that she was, was right?
