Saturday, 15 June 2013

Men ‘to blame for the menopause’

Hot flushes, night sweats, mood swings - menopause and its side effects can all be blamed on men, experts suggest.

Evolutionary geneticists from Canada's McMaster University say men's tendency to choose younger mates meant fertility became pointless for older women. They say this eventually led to menopause.

It’s ironic that this study uses the phrase pointless, as that’s exactly what it is.

Of all the things there are to research about genes and yet those at McMaster chose this, what a waste of time.

A simple biology lesson would have saved them the time and told them that the older women get the more risks there are involved in reproducing, and also the fact that the advancements in medicine in the last hundred years means that life expectancy has shot up and exceeded the age of onset menopause.


Yet despite all this existing evidence they decided to press on anyway and have come up with a nonsense theory that nobody should pay any attention to. 

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