If you’ve never heard of Post-Menopausal Zest you’re not the only one. The view persists that after the menopause it’s downhill all the way. But it's not true. ⠀ ⠀ There is, according to many women, a wonderful light at the end of the tunnel. The phrase, PMZ was coined in the 1950s by the legendary American anthropologist Margaret Mead, who defined it as a “physical and psychological surge of energy”. At 48, she had persuaded her doctor to give her shots of oestrogen for a circulatory problem “and it worked” she reported in a medical history. Though she noted she had "longer spaces between her periods and a lighter flow" she continued to have hormone induced periods for another eight years and felt she'd held off menopause until her sixties. ⠀ ⠀ In the late 1990s, a British Psychological Society study found that most women felt better at 60 than they had done at 40. Their cognitive function and memory improved, as did their overall quality of life. And it was not different for women wh...