Earlier research seeking to explain why married women reach menopause later than never-married or divorced women points to the influence of male pheromones, natural chemicals in the animal kingdom that attract the opposite sex. The average age of the women going into the study was 46. During the following decade, 45 per cent of the women experienced a natural menopause, at an average age of 52. The correlation between frequency of sex and onset of menopause was unmistakable, the researchers found. There is considerable variation in the age of natural menopause across cultures, but genetic factors only account for about half of those differences, earlier research has shown.

Source: Standard Digital January 15, 2020 03:33 UTC