Tired or Vital Exhaustion—Curse or Cure for Women?

The butt of jokes and sitcom episodes for decades has been the caricature of the tired, worn-out woman. She is often portrayed as the exhausted housewife who has no energy left at the end of the day for the proverbial “romp in the hay”. For those of you too young to remember, that aphorism translates into current ICD-10 code for low libido. Being tired has been taken for granted in women. We, both in society and in medical circles, are accustomed to dismissing a report from a woman that she is…