We have a lady staying with us for a couple of nights. She had to leave her house due to septic tank problems, which she said (prayed?) will be fixed soon. She said that the rainy weather had caused her sewer to back up into her bathroom, and the smell was terrible inside her house. So she called some septic companies before settling on American Septic Tank company. She came to stay here until the problem is fixed.
Anyway, the lady is a scientist working on a method to predict when a woman will enter menopause…the time left on her biological clock. She said that the ratios of 3 hormones could give a good idea, within 6 months, of when a woman’s uterus would release its last egg. This would tell the fertility years remaining on her biological clock. She said her research team hopes to commercialize the test, but that getting it through the FDA is time-consuming and expensive. Some biological markers must be monitored every month for a year. Fortunately, this test does not detect disease (menopause is not a disease) so the regulatory requirements are not so strict.