Delaying the ageing process: the link between menopause and the skin's appearance

02 February 2020
Volume 9 · Issue 1

Abstract

During peri-menopause and menopause, the skin goes through various changes that can have a negative impact on women. While it is a fact that every woman will experience menopause, the symptoms will vary from woman to woman. With that in mind, there are many menopausal women visiting aesthetic clinics seeking treatments to delay the ageing process but will want to do it in a natural-looking way. This article will look at the menopause and the changes that occur to the skin; it will also discuss what aesthetic practitioners can do to help patients.

One of the body's largest organs (Raine-Fenning, 2003), the skin changes and is affected by both menopause and the ageing process. As the body grows older, so does the skin, but for some women, this can be accelerated around the time of the menopause by approximately 6% (Levine et al, 2016). As aesthetic procedures grow ever popular, more and more women visit aesthetic clinics for procedures to help with the ageing process initiated by menopause.

Menopause is defined as the ‘permanent cessation of menstruation resulting from the loss of ovarian follicular activity’ (Sturdee, 2004). It can be a natural progression or can occur suddenly following surgery or medication. The term menopause originates from the Greek words ‘menos’ (which means ‘months’) and ‘pausos’ (meaning an ending). In the UK, on average, women experience menopause at 51 years' old (Abernethy, 2018).

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