Comments | liveonearth: Postmenopausal Women with Night Sweats Live Longer

liveonearth

Postmenopausal Women with Night Sweats Live Longer

Sep 18, 2009 18:13

This is a pretty cool finding. Having hot flashes has no impact on your overall mortality, but having night sweats is actually a good sign. I have my theories about why this might be true. You have any ideas? The result is independent of BMI, smoking, hormone therapy, and exercise.
( Details: I think I may write up this article for one of my gyne papers. )

menopause, death, gynecology, women, fire, hormones

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sujatasong September 19 2009, 22:53:53 UTC

Good news for me! I suspect that it is because we sweat a lot of crap out that our body doesn't want/need.

Although I must say my mother-in-law is 93 and claims she had no menopausal symptoms. She just stopped mensturating.

However, in a discussion a couple of weeks ago, she also told me she never thought about death. How do you get to be 93 and never think about death?? LOL

liveonearth September 20 2009, 02:54:48 UTC

Yep, that jives with my theory. Through the skin is one way to eliminate waste. And being warm makes us less hospitable to many pathological organisms that live in/on us.

I dunno how anybody can be that old and not think about death. Maybe it's a defense mechanism. Denial is, after all, a powerful force in the human psyche.