Grayce P. Storey
Some physiological changes will occur as the female estrogen production decline which will bring about menopause. If the female goes untreated, she will age much more quickly than a man of similar years. Some of the physiological changes are “marked skin changes, disfiguring fat deposits, the breast may begin to atrophy and the external genitals begin to regress.”
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In childless women the vaginal lining is smooth after menopause.
Estrogen deficiency resulting from menopause may result in obesity, which is believed to result from decreasing caloric expenditure, and osteoporosis due to decreasing protein anabolism.