Biology Beyond the Obvious is a 9-part blog series reframing overlooked systems—fascia, mitochondria, gut, skin, water, senses—through the nervous system lens.
Touch feels different. Textures irritate. Scent tolerance narrows. Sometimes sensation vanishes altogether. Menopause dismantles the estrogen-mediated sensory filters that shaped perception for decades—and now your body is redrawing its borders.
Gray hair isn’t a cosmetic betrayal or an inevitable genetic clock. It’s a cumulative load signature—a keratin receipt for decades of oxidative stress, sympathetic overdrive, and metabolic margin you didn’t actually have.
Menopause doesn’t make fascia louder. It removes the buffers that kept you from hearing what was always there. This is the sensory reckoning — when the body stops hiding its own truth.
