October is Menopause Awareness Month and whilst this aims to make the subject a normal topic of conversation in everyday life, a lot of women, or trans and non-binary people who do not identify as women, reach that point in their lives and are unsure of exactly what's happening to their bodies. One of the most notable things to happen are the skin changes in menopause.
It transpires that our perimenopausal and menopausal years are those during which the ageing process is likely to catch up with you. "I often describe ageing spurts," says award-winning aesthetic doctor, Dr Sophie Shotter. You can, she says, tootle along for months quite happily and then, seemingly overnight, age five years. Menopause is - sorry, everybody - the biggest ageing spurt of them all.
