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Doctors Are Calling It "Emotional Anaesthesia" - And It's Not Depression Millions of women hit menopause and quietly lose the ability to feel joy. Not sadness. Not mood swings. Just... nothing. And most GPs have no idea what to do about it. Janet, 56, from Bristol, sat at her daughter's wedding and felt completely hollow. "I kept thinking — I should be crying right now. I should be overwhelmed. But there was nothing there. Just a kind of flat grey silence where the feeling should have been." She'd been to her GP twice. Tried HRT. Tried St John's Wort. Tried cutting out alcohol and going to bed at the same time every night. Still nothing. What nobody had told Janet is that this specific type of emotional numbness — the kind that makes you smile at the right moments because you know you're supposed to — isn't a mood disorder. It's caused by a completely separate process happening in one specific part of the brain. And HRT doesn't touch it. Then Janet's neighbour — a retired pharmacist — told her about a strange morning habit involving a spice most British women already have sitting in their kitchen cupboard. Janet was sceptical. She'd tried everything. But six weeks later, her husband noticed something at the dinner table. He didn't say anything at first. He just watched. What he saw next made him reach for her hand for the first time in two years. Click "Learn More" to find out what's really been switched off inside your brain.