Does Menopause Make You More Susceptible To Diabetes?

No it does not. Menopause has little to no impact on whether women become more susceptible to diabetes, according to a unique study.
This is according to study lead author Catherine Kim, M.D., M.P.H., an associate professor of internal medicine and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Michigan Health System, who conducted a national clinical trial of 1,237 women at high risk for diabetes, ages 40 to 65, menopause had no additional effect on risk for diabetes.

Postmenopausal women had no higher risk for diabetes whether they experienced natural menopause or had their ovaries removed.
The research is considered the only menopause study that specifically analyzed the impact of diabetes on women who had natural menopause and those who had their ovaries removed. Most other studies mixed them together or excluded one group.

Dr Kim says"Menopause is one of many small steps in aging and it doesn't mean women's health will be worse after going through this transition."
She says that menopause does not mean that menopausal women have a higher risk of diabetes and that lifestyle changes can be very effective in keeping them healthy.

Menopause Is Not A Medical Problem

According to psychotherapist Sue Brayne, who presented her insights into the lived, felt experiences of women going through menopause in  at the British Psychological Society Psychology of Women Section annual conference, menopause shouldn't be seen as a medical problem that needs fixing but as a life-affirming and normal process that women go through.

Little consideration is given to the psychological, emotional, and spiritual changes women go through in this stage of life and no matter how science attempts to 'cure' the menopause, evolution cannot be stopped. When a woman reaches her fifties, she will undergo immense changes. She has to face the death of fertility, the loss of her youth, and to accept that she is no longer able to attract the attention she once did.

I think deep down we all know this, but it is just simpler to use the menopause to explain the changes women face as ultimately the above issues cannot be solved by medication or supplements or any other quick fix, but by each individual woman on her own - not an easy process...