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Menopause can bring about a number of mental, physical and emotional changes – including some shifts in your sex life.

Clinically speaking, menopause is reached when you’ve gone 12 straight months without a period, marking the end of one’s reproductive years. The average age of the last menstrual period is 51, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.

But the transitional phase leading up to menopause, known as perimenopause, typically lasts about four years – though it can be as short as a few months or as long as 10 years. Colloquially, however, many use the word “menopause” as an umbrella term to encompass the whole process.

During perimenopause, which often begins in your mid 40s , levels of hormones like o estrogen a

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