Vicky Rhodes, 59, says she was intimate almost daily for 10 years, "with a handsome man a decade my junior. I can only guess that’s what has kept my hormones seemingly unchanged — and the menopause at bay."

Scientists say "that if you have a full sexual life, you’re keeping your body and hormones active, so you stay fertile for longer."

"Experts asked nearly 3,000 women — who were tracked for ten years — how often they had sex. Women of any age who had sex each week were 28 per cent less likely to have been through the menopause by age 51, compared with those who had sex less than once a month."

"Scientists postulated that, if a woman is not having sex and there is no chance of pregnancy, the body ‘chooses’ to stop investing energy into ovulation, and enters menopause."

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