![]() ‘Some of my colleagues recommend vitamins such as magnesium, zinc and calcium for menopausal women. Sound remedy: Lynne Wallis sought natural ways to rejuvenate her voice ‘The vocal folds need to have just the right amount of moisture to work properly,’ Mr Rubin reveals. This is known as menopausal voice syndrome. It is around my age, 51, that levels of oestrogen drop dramatically, causing the vocal folds to dry out. Hormones are a big influence on it, too.Ī woman’s voice can change so much just before her period, when there are large amounts of progesterone in her body, that opera singers are given time off at this point in their cycle, when their voices lower noticeably. Other factors which can affect the voice range from diet, alcohol and stress to how much we weigh. But the larynx gets progressively lower as we age, and, as this happens, our voices deepen. We are born with our larynx high up in the throat so that our chances of choking are less - there is a smaller distance between where food enters our bodies and where it is swallowed. ![]() Our vocal cords, or ‘vocal folds’ as Mr Rubin prefers to call them, are part of the larynx, a structure made of muscle and cartilage located at the top of the trachea, or windpipe. ‘We’ve noticed an increase in people with issues relating to an ageing voice, and we believe this is due to an ageing population who work for longer and are reliant on their voice to keep working.’ ‘We live in a society where people want to appear young and, now, to sound young as well,’ Mr Rubin told me. I made an appointment at the Royal National Throat, Nose and Ear Hospital in London with the celebrated specialist and voice consultant to the stars (ever-discreet, he won’t mention who) John Rubin.
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