menopause < /a > derives from the Ancient Greek < em > menos < /em > meaning month and < em > pausis < /em > meaning a cessation. It is strangely fitti..."> menopause < /a > derives from the Ancient Greek < em > menos < /em > meaning month and < em > pausis < /em > meaning a cessation. It is strangely fitti..." /> menopause < /a > derives from the Ancient Greek < em > menos < /em > meaning month and < em > pausis < /em > meaning a cessation. It is strangely fitti..." />

If we reverse the menopause, where will motherhood end? | Keren Levy

Scientists say they can rejuvenate ovaries. I ’m surprised by how this prospect makes me nostalgic for the sense of an ending, the ‘natural order of things’ < p > The term < a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/menopause" title="" > menopause < /a > derives from the Ancient Greek < em > menos < /em > meaning month and < em > pausis < /em > meaning a cessation. It is strangely fitting then, that it should be from a Greek research team that the news came this week of a new treatment < a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130833-100-menopause-reversal-restores-periods-and-produces-fertile-eggs/" title="" > that might reverse the process < /a > . < /p > < p > As a single woman in her 40s who would have loved to become a mother, I wrestled for a long time with the question of exactly when it is too late even to consider the possibility of pregnancy and of having my own child. < /p > < a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/22/reverse-menopause-motherhood-ovaries" > Continue reading... < /a >
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