Is there a disparity between menopausal women in the East and West?
And could it all be down to diet?
In Japan, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Taiwan and China women have not generally sought medical attention for menopause symptoms.
The reasons for these cultural differences are complex. Increasingly we do HRT becoming commonplace but alongside thousand-year-old traditional methods. TCM would say that they are working differently in the body. HRT is ‘tricking’ t…