Does having more sex make you delay menopause?

What? Where is this coming from?

So this podcast is going to talk about this study that just came out, it was published in 2020,

and it was published in the Royal Society Open Science, so not the most well-known of journal publications, but I was able to track it down.

So this is all over the news waves today. It's on Good Morning America. It's on NBC News,

because anything that talks about sex is, you know, very clickable. So I needed to get to the actual study.

So I was able to download the full study off the internet.

And the study that we're talking about today is sexual frequency is associated with age of natural menopause.

Results from the study of women's health across the nation.

So this is looking at America.

And it is looking at does sexual activity delay the age of menopause.

So menopause is defined by 12 months without a period.

So anything after that, your postmenopause pre or perimenopause is kind of a stuttery period or you start getting some hormonal signs, but you haven't

fully ceased having your periods yet.

So the average age of menopause in American women is 52, and a lot of it is your genetics.

You can't pick your parents, but a lot of it that people don't know about is your lifestyle.

So smoking is a risk factor for earlier menopause, anything

that's causing you to prematurely age, right? So how fit you are, smoking status, and there's

actually something to socioeconomic status and age of menopause. And so why does how much,

and how they found that is they said, well, people who have more

education have later menopause, but how does your body know that you went to college, right?

But what it's a corollary for is your socioeconomic status.

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