WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY NOT TELL YOU ABOUT MENOPAUSE (TM)

I think the title is unnecessarily self limiting.I found this book to be a fantastic analysis of a woman's health issues from the age of 40 onwards. It dealt with so many facets of general good health, hormonal balance for all woman not just those who are experiencing difficult issues of the menopause. It gives great practical advice for nutrition, natural hormones, medicine and holistic well being. It is a reassuring and optimistic approach, and certainly does not leave the reader thinking that life has ended, because you are getting older. ( FYI I am a woman using my husband's account)

I bought the book together with the one about Pre-Menopause then for some reason I waited 1 year to read them... Big mistake, I wish I had read them immediately without wasting money and time with clueless gynecologists who (I realize now) don't have a clue of what is happening to you. Their approach was : go for the full on HRT with Estrogens (without checking your hormones before!) OR "Lady, this is life, Menopause is part of life, deal with it" (attach very condescending tone). One year of 20/30 hot flashes per day, awful mood, no sleep, feeling bloated and miserable, heart palpitations, feeling weak and going almost insane feeling that someone else was living in my body (or to live in the body of someone else!) I finally read the book. What truly helped me was not Natural Progesterone , but the awareness that with the right steps I could take my health in my own hands, since nobody was apparently able to help me. Which I did. First of all, I did a saliva test for the whole Estrogens panel and Progesterone (bought with a self kit here on Amazon). And thanks God that I did it because it turned out that I wasn't Estrogen dominant at all, quite the opposite. My Progesterone levels were through the roof, with Estrogens barely existent. No wonder I felt so bad. I was completely unbalanced. I studied all the natural alternatives to chemical Estrogens and landed on 2 Fito Estrogens that are literally saving my life (Ashwaganda and Dong Quai). This is working (FOR ME, not saying it's a a universal cure) INCREDIBLY well. NO hot flashes anymore. Much calmer, much more centered, less anxious. Most of all, I haven't given up to the idea that I can feel positive and strong even in this phase of my life, that I can still feel healthy, without intoxicating myself with chemicals in the meantime. Thank you so much Dr. John Lee for giving back to women dignity and their natural power. Forever grateful.

Muy buen libro. Aún lo estoy leyendo pero las explicaciones son claras y me ha ayudado mucho a entender cosas que a veces cuando le cuentas a tu médico, las descarta como si fuera algo normal. Toda mujer debería leer este libro

This one, as well as the other books written by John Lee (JL), is an important book. This is a book which I would say that all doctors and physicians should be ordered to read. And when reading the book I discovered that besides being a book for women it also showed up to be a book with much important information for men (besides of course learning about the women's problems) in among other with the writings about Osteoporosis, Stress and other sicknesses of which both woman and man can be hit. I first bought these by JL written books after having read many other books about cancer, and especially breast cancer, after it 4 month ago for my wife was discovered that she had breast cancer and she (too) fast was trough a surgery. And besides I also first lately bought this actual book because it was a printing from way back in 2003, but then by reading the book it showed up to be with more important writings than in the already read newer books written by other doctors! Here I especially am thinking on the many problems there can come as the results of using Synthetic pills, and the failure in only given women Estrogen and not at the same time also Progesterone, and the failure that around 2/3 of all women already in their bodies are producing enough Estrogen and therefore don't even need Estrogen pills and then besides mostly get the it as a Synthetic one. Statistical it to me looks like my wife most probably was hit by breast cancer because she over 25 years had been taking a Synthetic Estrogen (we have know each other for the last 10 years), but weighting correct, eating good Asian food, not drinking alcohol, and so on also in all other ways living healthy. But first after having received the book I discovered how much interesting writings there also are about the Osteoporosis. Interesting on many points, first because I 5 years ago had a surgery in part of the arm closest to the right hand, after by pain having discovered that the bone at that point had lost the inside volume, marrow, over 2 - 3 inches. Second because JL explain what's the reason for 5 - 6 times more women than men are getting Osteoporosis, and that it's a myth that it by DNA is forced to be so; highly interesting. And for the third I will get in contact with the professor that cured my bone, and to him deliver a copy of a smaller book about Natural Progesterone Cream and show him this book by JL. Because for me it actually a few weeks ago showed up that here in Thailand, in the Hospitals and the Chemist's, there don't even exists any Progesterone Cream! I only in the biggest Chemist's, here in Chiang Mai, have found some Estrogen Cream. And then when by Amazon ordering some Progesterone Cream I from Amazon received the message that the laws in Thailand don't allow them to send this to me! But as the Progesterone Cream also are good for the bones I by contacting the professor will find out if I by that way can get this Cream to my wife, so that she can stop taking Tamoxifen. And besides maybe be giving the professor some good information and maybe thereby helping the patients with Osteoporosis (and all the other). As doctor he only works concerning bones and Osteoporosis. When my wife and I, 2 weeks ago, were by a younger doctor in the same hospital this doctor then ordered her to start taking Tamoxifen. I then said "What about Progesterone Cream instead?. But it showed up that he didn't know anything about this and couldn't understand how it as a Cream could work as a pill and thereby getting the needed contents into the body! So I had to explain it to him, and after that he no longer wanted to talk to me! Opposite to this I each time had god science talking with the professor. In the book there also are interested stories about patients that contacted JL as they had problems that their ordinary doctors couldn't solve. As in one case with a women who over 10 years coursed by Osteoporosis had ended up being 20 centimeter (8") lower, and about another women who's doctor over time again and again increased her amount of Progesterin, and neither did it result in anything. And it showed up that the problem was that he thought that Progesterin = Progesterone, and that it came from the nature and that it therefore aught to help/work! Last in the book there also for me are many interested sides concerning the chemicals connection between the molecules for Cholesterol, Estrogen and many other. Especially good because it also shows all of the molecules, so that we easier can follow the changes and se the small differences. It has been a heavy, but good, reading for me, that is it's containing of extremely many word for doctors that I couldn't find in my translating books from English to Danish, but luckily we now a day have Google. But again, an extremely good book written with information science. But it's a shame that John Lee longer no longer lives and then is writing more books and is trying to learn people more about the reality concerning most of the reason for to much cancer cases.

ich habe bereits mehrere Bücher des Autors gelesen und finde sie unersetzlich. man sollte sich wirklich rechtzeitig über das Thema Hormone informieren, da man schlimme gesundheitliche Probleme, sogar hormonbedingte Krebserkrankungen möglicherweise erspraren kann. Auch das Buch zum Thema Brustkrebs ist unersetzlich, sogar wenn man nicht betroffen ist. Gut informiert kann man sich optimal schützen.