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by Simon_says 3034 days ago
His answer is kinda crap, to boot. Menopause isn't triggered by the number of menstrual cycles, but by age.
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How do you know that? It is and a cop out answer because age is not a mechanism. Specifics please?
I apologize. It turns out my intuition was wrong about this. I just assumed that menopause was triggered by age, and I was going to look for evidence that age of menopause doesn't correlate with number of pregnancies, but it turns out it does! Childless women hit menopause earlier, on average. So, I guess I don't know.