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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life From Thirty to Fifty |  | Authors: John Lee, Jesse Hanley, Virginia Hopkins
Publisher: Warner Books
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Sales Rank: 19646
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Pages: 395
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.3
ISBN: 0446673803
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.175
EAN: 9780446673808
ASIN: 0446673803
Publication Date: January 1, 1999
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Are you a woman between 35 and 50 experiencing PMS, migraine headaches, sudden weight gain, fatigue, irritability, tender or lumpy breasts, memory loss, fibroids, or cold hands and feet? If so, you may be experiencing symptoms of premenopause. Even if you're a decade or more away from menopause, your hormones may already be out of balance, usually caused by an excess of estrogen and a deficiency of progesterone, say the authors of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause. John Lee, M.D., is a well-known advocate of the benefits of natural progesterone and the author of What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause. Jesse Hanley, M.D., adds sensitivity to the emotional and spiritual aspects of premenopause. The authors recommend natural progesterone cream to balance your hormones, eliminate premenopausal symptoms, and make you feel better. They also discuss the dangers of xenohormones--substances not found in nature that have hormonal effects--frequently found in pesticides, solvents, plastics, and hormone-treated meat. The book presents common symptoms of premenopause with suggested natural treatments (progesterone cream, diet, vitamins, and herbs) and substances to avoid, plus additional chapters on diet and exercise. Many case studies help to bring the information into perspective. If you are premenopausal (or close to someone who is), this is a valuable resource. --Joan Price
Product Description
Most women between the ages of thirty and fifty have some form of premenopause syndrome. Up until now, the only medical solutions included psychiatric prescriptions, synthetic hormones, and even surgery. Now, John Lee, M.D., along with womens health expert Jesse Hanley, M.D., and medical writer Virginia Hopkins, presents a safe, revolutionary non-prescription Balance Program to restore gynecological health, energy, and sex drive and slow the aging process before menopause, and even after.
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 Every woman over 18 must read this eye opener!!!!! December 6, 2009
Elsie M (Los Angeles, CA ,USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
If I could do my life over again, I would read this book as early as possible. It is so informative about all the BETTER (Naturally instead of with Prescription drugs that are toxic/harmful in the long run) alternatives available to women to deal with basic issues like PMS, sensitive breasts, yeast infections, heavy menstruation bleeding, severe menstrual cramps, irregular bleeding, headaches, early onset of hot flashes (I am in my early 30's and they have already started0, etc., as well as more serious issues such as cystic fibroids, infertility, unnecessary hysterectomy, hormone replacement therapy.
In this book I learned that a doctor would opt for removing your uterus instead of removing the fibroid causing problems because most doctors are trained in the removal of a uterus but are not skilled/trained/licensed to perform the surgery to remove a fibroid. Thus they would have to send you to another doctor who is trained in that procedure, so they would loose your business. My doctor prescribed the pill for my PMS and related symptoms, which in the long run caused other problems. He could have simply prescribed a natural and inexpensive over the counter progesterone cream that would have solved those problems as well as helped to balance my hormones. But this means that my issues would be solved and he would loose me as a patient thus loosing valuable business.
After reading the book, I went to Whole Foods Market and purchased one of the natural progesterone creams that didn't contain wild yams (as instructed in this book)(I won't give the name of the product I selected so that no one will think that I am promoting a particular product). I used the cream for only 5 days and was so amazed that it works. My PMS is usually so bad, I have to make a serious effort to keep myself from screaming at my significant other and my dogs for every little thing they do but not this month. I had only one day where I felt mildly irritated. I will continue to use it and see if I can eliminate the PMS altogether. Ohh, and did I mention that I did not suffer from 'Tender Breast' either!!!!!!!!
There is a negative review posted by Piasta Wnuczka, who writes: Perimenopause is a marketing construct, intended to sell drugs, books and other products by instilling self-doubt and insecurity. Resist the effort to pathologize everything about women's bodies. Piasta seems to be upset that this book promotes products (a list of natural progesterone creams are listed at the end of the book). I don't understand why this bothered this particular reader. I would be upset if the situation were reversed, where the book would have failed to give me viable information on options available for my all very real issues/ailments.
This book also has a chapter on Xenohormones. This are toxic chemicals that we eat via our foods, drink in our water or put on our skin via skin care products which mimic certain hormones (act hormone like). Most tend to act like the estrogen hormone, which makes us estrogen dominant, which in turn causes many of our problems. At first I thought this chapter would be boring but it opened my eyes to the everyday little ways that I poison myself with my morning coffee which was sprayed with DDT (yuk) and lettuce sprayed with chemicals, and the plastic Tupperware that I store the food in, and the toxic Teflon covered pans that I cook in which even when using a low flame still release the super toxic chemicals into my food. I now buy organic coffee at Trader Joes and organic lettuce (the cost is actually not that much more), switched to glass food storing containers, switched to stainless steel pans with copper clad bottom (they are the best for heat distribution/new, they are very expensive but they are easily found at local thrift shops for under $10), I now look for my mayonnaise and salad dressing in glass containers instead of plastic.
So sorry that this review turned into a book in itself but I just can't say it all with less. Please excuse any misspellings or bad sentence structure.
so far... October 8, 2009
Daisy Grower (Southern Oregon)
Even though I haven't finished the book, right off I have to give it 5 stars simply for telling me that my low thyroid could be caused by low progesterone! My doctor didn't tell me that, in fact, I went to the doctor because of my thinning hair & just found out the synthetic thyroid meds I was taking can cause hair loss!! Needless to say, I've switched to progesterone & not only do I already feel better but I'm just sure my hair has stopped falling out! By the way, if you struggle with brain fog, the book is an easy read!
Life Changing Book! August 24, 2009
Sun_Sand_&_Sea
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am in my early forties and had begun to experience bouts of extreme insomnia. I was so exhausted. Once I finally fell asleep, I was only able to stay asleep for a couple of hours at a time. I also noticed that my periods, which had always been like clockwork, were starting to come early one month and late the next. Then, I had my first hot flash. Oh no, I thought. Is this a sign of menopause? I'm too young for this! I began searching the internet for menopause symptoms and came across a recommendation for this book. I purchased the Kindle version and read it in one night. One of the women mentioned in the book had symptoms identical to mine. The book recommends the use of a natural progesterone cream for the symptoms. I decided to give it a try. After only one week using the cream, I was like a different person. My insomnia is now gone! I am able to sleep for 8 hours a night. My energy level is higher than it has been in years. My periods are back to normal and I haven't experienced any more hot flashes. For anyone who is having similar symptoms, I urge you to read this book.
Must have book February 7, 2009
Miss Molly (Columbus OH)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is so complete in information. It covers nearly anything you would want to know about in this stage of every women's life. I would recommend it to anyone who is having issues and isn't satisfied with the answers that a phyician is giving!
A must read, but consult first June 3, 2008
T. Schendel (San Francisco)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I am not a beliver in many things. I am a hard core skeptic. But I am sold on this book. I have bought multiple copies and handed them out to my girlfriends, something I have never done before.
This books will inform you at the very least. Some people in the reviews say Dr. Lee's science is bad. While he explains what happens at the celluar level with hormones, this isn't a science book. I think there is still a great deal about women's bodies in particular that we just don't understand. Science or no science, my experience and that of many other women speaks for itself. I would agree though, that before starting any type of HRT, you should consult with your doctor.
I had all the troubles of a hormone shift described in this book. Not only were they getting worse, they had a compoubnding effect. I was finding it hard to sleep at night and that worsened the mood and energy levels during the day. I was exercising 5 times a week with a very good personal trainer, watching my nutrition without seeing a change in my BMI. I am a very stable, naturally happy, healthy, and together person, but I was feeling out of control of my emotions and my life. And I was managing people. It was starting to hurt my rapport with my employees.
For three years, I complained to my doctor who ran all the blood tests to see if there was an imbalance and couldn't find anything. But I just knew that it was a hormone thing. I started my research and this is the only book I found written specifically for women in their thirties who aren't pregnant. I read this book and it was like an epiphany. I talked to my doctor about it and she agreed pretty much with what Doctors Lee and Hanley had to say beacause I have no other health problems. And, talking to my older sisters and my mother, there seems to be a family history of estrogen dominance (which can be caused by estrogen levels that are too high or too low - something Dr. Lee points out). She put me on natural progesterone pills. Within 6 weeks, I dropped 2 pants sizes, and had no more PMS symptoms to speak of. I was back to being myself. I continue to do very well. I have been able to cut back on the exercise, I can eat more freely without the bloating and weight gain, and I am feeling much more in control of myself and my life. My doctor tells me that natural progesterone can't really hurt you (unless pregnant). My mother's doctor told her the same thing and she is 84!
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