65: Menopause - Magnificence or Madness Forbidden Doctor: Revealing Forbidden Health Secrets!

 

According to Dr. Susan Love…

“ Making eggs isn’t the ovaries only function any more than reproduction is a whole woman’s function.  The ovary is more than just an egg sac.  It’s an endocrine organ – an organ that produces hormones. And it produces hormones before, during, and after menopause.  With menopause the ovary goes through a shift from a follicle rich producer of estrogen and progesterone into a producer of estrogen and androgen.  In the post menopausal woman the ovary responds with increased production of testosterone as well as continued lower levels of the oestrogens (estrogen), oestrone, oestradiol, and the oestrogen precurser, androstenedione”.

How marvelous are your ovaries!  What mysteries they embody!  What secrets they contain and what astounding transformational powers they deliver! From a little androgenous princess dreaming of her Disney-like prince, to an emerging teen wrestling with the volcanic forces up-and-coming through her constantly changing endocrine balances and emerging female form, to sexual maturity that can now conceive, develop and bear children, to the fully arrived and visionary woman nature intended, that extends her arms and reaches out to embrace all of her creation, physical and spiritual, with that knowing, loving, and nurturing understanding that nature has reserved for the female of our species.  I stand in awe.

They not only provide the continuance of our species upon this planet, they also hold the powers and the secrets of true human transformation as they guide a woman through the episodes of life to true renewal.  In the midst of this heaven sent presence to all of us, there remains many misunderstandings and myths that survive to this day.

The ovaries extend outward just at the end of the fallopian tubes that border the uterus on both sides.  For what they will achieve in life they are remarkably small.  They are oval, and suggesting their hidden value, pearl colored.  They are a woman’s primary sex organs. In this small part of her body, seemingly lost, compared to the rest of her physical form, is where the production of estrogen and progesterone takes place, ensuring her reproductive capabilities.

Ovaries produce eggs.  While still in utero, a developing female fetus has within her little body, all the eggs, known as follicles, that will mature and be released during her entire fertile life.  Before birth, these follicles will number about seven million!  At puberty, the number reduces to a mere 400,000, and only 400 of those will actually develop during her fertile years.

Something so different, than the male of the species, whose sperm cells last a paltry 6 weeks or so, and are constantly being created through his entire life, is the female egg, never seeing the light of day.  Her eggs are created while snuggled tightly in her own mother’s uterus.  They further develop during puberty only to one day, conceive a child, who if female, will begin the hidden production of her own seven million eggs snuggled tightly in her mother’s uterus.

While in the male, after only six weeks of life, the sperm cells will die, and be replaced by a whole new army of swimmers numbering 300,000,000 per ejaculation!  And these nomadic interlopers do not have to be delivered intra-vaginally to be effective, as they can be exposed to light, frozen, kept in stasis for decades, and then thawed and prepared for conception years after creation.  To me, something seems lost in all that before the majesty of the female egg, hidden from mother to mother to mother, through the generations of time, almost from Mother Eve herself, to the most recent female birth, as though the delicate nature of life itself was being passed on from one woman to the next in the most spiritual of all rituals we know.

I think we lose that idea at times.  I have female patients, I have spoken to in confidence, that have never come close to seeing themselves in this fas