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The Lifespan Magazine

November 2026

New Study Shows the Menopausal Health Drop-off Is Rapid and Body-Wide

New Study Shows the Menopausal Health Drop-off Is Rapid and Body-Wide
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It’s no secret that women’s health changes after menopause. But a large new study shows this shift is not just a gradual dropoff in health.1 The transition, as researchers put it in their paper published in Nature Medicine, is “sharp and systemic.” Meaning, it happens fast, and it’s body-wide.

“When we saw the data, the hair on the back of our necks stood up,” senior author Uri Alon, a professor in the department of molecular cell biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, tells Lifespan Magazine.

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