Premature menopause is a condition in which a woman stops menstruating completely before the age of 40 years. Sometimes this can happen as early as 30 leading to various problems related to health and reproduction in the affected women. Here Dr Duru Shah Director Gynaecworld Center for Assisted Reproduction & Women’s health Mumbai talks to us about premature menopause. The ovaries have two functions the first to produce eggs for fertility and the second to produce reproductive hormones. The ovaries make three types of steroid hormones - testosterone estrogen and progesterone. The ovaries are most active when a woman is around 20 to