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What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty |  | Authors: John R. Lee, Jesse Hanley, Virginia Hopkins
Publisher: Warner Wellness
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 207397
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Media: Paperback
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.2
Dewey Decimal Number: 618.175
ASIN: B000LP66QQ
Publication Date: January 1, 1999
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I'm too Young for Menopause-So Why Do I Feel Like this? You could be experiencing unexplained weight gain...fatigue...mood swings...loss of libido...fibroids...tender or lumpy breasts...endometriosis...PMS...infertility...memory loss...migraines...very heavy or light periods...cold hands and feet...or a combination of these symptoms. You may have been told they're "nothing," or stress, or even menopause-and offered surgery, antidepressants, or prescription hormones. But the startling truth is that you may be suffering from premenopause syndrome-and there are simple, safe solutions. When John Lee wrote the groundbreaking What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, younger women started asking if natural progesterone could help them, too. In this book Dr. Lee, with women's health expert Jesse Hanley, M.D., brings you a revolutionary nonprescription "Balance Program" to restore your gynecological health, energy, and sex drive-and even slow the aging process before menopause, and beyond.
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 phenomenal book March 12, 2010
Y. Stein (Los Angeles, CA)
amazing book! i'm so happy my doctor recommended it. very practical advises, easy to read. finally somebody understands what i feel and knows how to treat it!
 Worth to read December 30, 2009
tennis (Walnut Creek, CA, USA)
It is a good book worth to read. Although I am a little reserved about natural progesterone (is it as good as the aurthor said). Through this book, you can get more knowledge and then judge by yourself.
An Important Read - Even a Decade Later. December 28, 2009
Groovy Vegan (USA)
"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause" is a paradigm shifting book in women's health that I think should be required reading for women of all ages. The authors, as well as many other holistic practitioners, have found that many of the symptoms common in women from about their 30s until menopause such as monthly migraines and PMS are caused by estrogen dominance (a termed coined by Dr. Lee) and are easily correctable with progesterone cream, as well as diet, exercise, and lifestyle. The authors explain, however, that progesterone is no panacea, and it's pointless to add it if a woman is going to have an unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle.
Why bio-identical progesterone and not Premarin ® (PREgnant MARe urINe hormones)? Author John Lee, M.D. was among the first to sound the alarm to the general public about the dangers of taking synthetic female hormones, equine hormones (such as Premarin ®), and estrogen unopposed by progesterone. This book not only discusses the dangers of the above, but explicitly shows women how to balance their hormones through diet, exercise, lifestyle, and bio-indentical progesterone. It is so thorough and well-written that the reader should have no doubts on when and how to safely use bio-indentical progesterone.
Why is this 1999 book still relevant? A National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2004 press release about the Women's Health Initiative study reads, "The estrogen-plus-progestin trial was stopped after 5.6 years of follow-up because of an increased risk of breast cancer and because the risk of breast cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, and blood clots outweighed the benefits on hip fracture and colorectal cancer." Yet doctors today routinely endanger women's health by prescribing synthetic and/or horse hormones that don't match hormone receptor sites in the human body, and unopposed estrogen. Typically doctors are educated by the pharmaceutical industry which has profit in mind, not Dr. Lee who had women's optimal health in mind.
By the way, the breast cancer section of this book is outstanding, and should be read by any woman with a concern about or history or family history of breast cancer. It makes some key points on prevention.
As a 10 year-old book according to as of this writing, not much about the book is out-of-date with the notable exception of amounts of supplements recommended. For example, they say not much is known about vitamin D, and they recommend 100 to 400 IU. Ten years later, much is known about vitamin D, including the fact most Americans, Canadians and Europeans are too low in it and need 1,000 to 4,000 IU daily in the winter months to help not only with healthy bones but an optimal immune system. The book also recommends taking pre-formed vitamin A, which is now known to be associated with osteoporosis. If the reader uses the supplements recommended, I suggest she look up the amounts recommended for optimal health based on current knowledge. They also say to supplement with vitamin E, failing to mention that the unnatural "dl" form of vitamin E is virtually useless, whereas the benefits are found in the natural "d" form. (Look on the label for the form.)
I have a quibble here and there in the nutrition section (no, strict vegetarians do not all need to supplement zinc, provided they eat nuts regularly). Overall, however, the nutrition section is very thorough, even discussing food allergies and the avoidance of yeast infections.
There are a lot more books on bioidentical hormones than there were when this book was published in 1999. But you can't go wrong with this one.
Must read for women 30 and up! October 21, 2009
K. Rock (OH USA)
I only wish I would have found this book 11 years ago. My problems started in my 30's and prior to my hysterectomy I had four "female" surgeries and was put on some pretty nasty hormones to try and alleviate my symptoms. None of which solved the problems, which progressively got worse with each year. I was suffering was dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia,fibroids and ovarian cysts. I has a multitude of symptoms that had been communicated to my doctors and were ignored. In 2009 I has an ovarian cancer scare that resulted in a partial hysterectomy which found severe endometriosis and a complicated ovarian cyst which was only going to larger and bigger if it wasn't removed. I read this book after my surgery because my doctor wanted me to continue birth control pills to prevent reoccurrence of the endometriosis. My mother also died of breast cancer and I wanted to make life style changes that would lower my risk. This book will educate you on so many levels to what steps you can take to get your hormone levels stablized and live a happy, healthy life. My doctors never took the time to educate me on why or rather what was causing all my problems. After reading this book I now understand.
Excellent book, lots of detail and references, easy to understand October 19, 2009
C. Anderson (Reno NV United States)
This book and "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause" have a lot of cross over. I actually wish there was only 1 book because really to get everything that is covered in both books, you have to get and read 2. I didn't really mind though because they are so good.
These books are full of information about hormone replacement, what works what doesn't. Lots of detail and lots of referenced studies and papers. But still esay to read and follow. It's the kind of book where you want to dog-ear half the pages so you don't forget something you read.
All women should read this. I am quite knowledgeable about health, but didn't really understand what progesterone and estrogen do and how they work.
Bottom line is that almost all women (and men too!) in industrial societies are estrogen dominant and need progesterone to balance it. The estrogen comes from petrochemicals and toxins in our environment (plastics, etc) and eating lousy food. As well as from being overweight (fat cells make estrogen because nature wants you to be fertile when food is plentiful.)
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