Your hormones are plotting against you. This doc has receipts.
Virtually every woman who enters menopause has questions about what’s happening to her body and how to effectively deal with the changes. The broad availability of medicines, remedies and even hormones even conveys the concept that menopause as a curable “deficiency disorder”. This documentary takes a look at the scientific and medical contexts of menopause as well as the latest findings in international research. Are artificial hormones medically necessary or a seductive, supposed fountain of youth? Do they truly assist in alleviating the suffering of women, or are they lifestyle drugs reflecting a zeitgeist in which ageing is no longer acceptable and older people are seen as “flawed”? A visual and provoking science documentary about the hot time of menopause that also takes a look at whether and how the hormones in men likewise go crazy.
Production
Rare doc giving menopause AND andropause equal skeptical scrutiny.
Writing
Balances accessible science with genuine 'are we being conned?' anger.
Director
Reinhild Dettmer-Finke
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
2018 release predates the massive 2022 WHI study revision that partially rehabilitated HRT—making this a fascinating time-capsule of medical anxiety.
The German title's 'Hormone verrückt' (hormones gone crazy) deliberately mirrors how society frames women's bodies as malfunctioning while men's aging gets normalized.
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