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  Menopause Risk Assessment, Saving Ovaries Can Better Women’s Health As organs start to fail, other health complexities come with it.   The female reproductive system is no stranger to this phenomenon.   “The primary problem of the gaining population is the serious detriments caused by the aging of various organs and the decline of their functions” (Zhang et al., 2019).   Ovaries are one of these organs that women, and the public, accept will fail on them one day, most likely when they still have decades of life ahead of them.   Organ aging is highly associated with a variety of diseases, and menopause is a cause of this.   “The decline of ovarian function and the arrival of menopause, which then lead to multiple organ dysfunction, such as heart disease, osteoporosis, cancer, obesity, senile dementia, and so on…the risk index is much higher than that of men of the same age” (Zhang et al., 2019).   Once one organ starts to go (the ovaries) other orga...

  My Family Does Not Want Me to Donate My Eggs.  I Did It Anyway. By Victoria Vinci There’s an episode of “Sex and the City” where Miranda, a corporate lawyer, is on a date with a man who has hair plugs.  They’re openly talking about how he’s much happier to no longer be bald, even if that means having artificial curls growing out of his forehead.  And over a lamb dinner, Miranda mentions that she’s been considering freezing her eggs, it takes the pressure off the biological clock issue, and she refers to this decision as a “ fertility savings account ”.  Her date tells her this is something she should not do, for as a society we “don’t want desperate women having babies at fifty”.  He goes on to say, “maybe some people aren’t meant to procreate.  Maybe this is the world’s way of weeding out the weak”.  I watched a rerun of this episode at fifteen years old, never imagining I’d be in Miranda’s position, and my family would be playing the role of h...