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    Challenges→The concept of disease necessarily requires that a condition have a causal history involving abnormal biological systems.

    Menopause and senescence involve no abnormal biological systems yet remain contested disease candidates under causal-history views.

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    • 1.Normal biological processes (aging, hormonal decline) don't become diseases merely by occurring naturally in healthy organisms.
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    • 2.Causal-history views require prior dysfunction; menopause and senescence show no system malfunction, only expected change.
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    • 3.Labeling inevitable life stages as disease medicalizes normal human experience and risks unnecessary intervention.
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    • 1.Menopause causes significant suffering (hot flashes, bone loss, cognitive effects) that warrants disease classification regardless of causation.
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    • 2.Evolutionary inevitability doesn't determine disease status; cancer is natural selection's byproduct yet clearly counts as disease.
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    • 3.If causal-history views exclude all age-related decline, the framework becomes unhelpfully divorced from clinical reality and patient needs.
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