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Summary: Save Your Money
Review: I was very disappointed when I read this book. I had seen the author on [a show] one day when I was home suffering with the flu. The show made me want to read this book because I thought it would answer many of my questions about perimenopause. Instead I found the book to be depressing and full of the author's own issues...issues that frankly have less to do with mid-life hormonal changes than her personal marital crisis. We all have our issues, but I was looking for fact based information, not self-justification. Yes, there was some information in the book I found interesting, but not enough.
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Summary: Worth picking through
Review: Generally, this is a good informative book, better for those of us who are at odds with our current lives. It provides medical validation for the confusion felt at reaching this point in life. However, after reading the first few chapters of this book, I have decided to pick through the pieces of this book that contain relevance for me, a good reference piece. While the information is very applicable, it is so often repetative that I lose interest. The chapters on hormone replacement therapy and physical changes are very good, being that I am a natural therapy sort. The advice on meditation, exercise, and general holistic practices is right on target. I draw the line, however, at the use of tarot cards and similar tools.
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Summary: No Wisdom
Review: The author has a lot of problems that have nothing to do with menapause. Her personal issues and lack of grounding will only add confusion to the average woman who is looking for direction. The author who is obviously unhappy with life wants to seek a complete new and questionable value system. I think most women will only be cast adrift using the book for "wisdom".
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Summary: Dr. Northrup missed some very valuable information
Review: I recently purchased and read this book and feel that while it contains some valuable information, many important facts were left out. Dr. Northrup is so high on progesterone that she is unable to communicate the fact that this hormone can also cause some troubling side effects. Think about how you feel during the last half of your cycle when progesterone is dominant....mood swings, weight gain, headaches, anxiety etc.. Now, tell me that you want to feel that way all of the time?? I think not. I recommend a fantastic book titled "screaming To Be Heard" (sorry, unable to underline) by Elizabeth Lee Vliet. Dr. Vliet gives you BOTH sides of the progesterone story.... please educate yourself before making such important life choices!!
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Summary: What about us Non-Unfulfilled Women?
Review: I found this book to be a treatise on Dr. Northrup's personal life. I'm sorry she was unfulfilled till she got her divorce. As I read along, trying as hard as I could to approach it with an open mind, I kept looking for advice for women like me who ARE in partnership, equal, happy marriages, doing what they want with their lives, but yet showing signs of perimenopause.Dr. Northrup found emotional cause for her fibroids, which I have a hard time buying into. I need a book with less hocus-pocus and more hard scientific information, undiluted with the new age approach.
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Summary: WE NEED ALL THE HELP WE CAN GET!
Review: There are a lot of books out there dealing with this subject but this book puts a lot of things in perspective. It not only guides you through the different stages of Menopause but it gives you the author's own hands on experience with the subject and that's honest writing in its purest form. I am sure there are alot of us who don't know what is happening as we probaly didn't have this explained to us by our moms. But you can bet that if your memory is going, you sweat at night profusedly, you cry over nothing, and somedays you hate your life,husband,pets, house,kids, your furniture, hair,face, body and everything else in sight than you need this book.
The part on nutrition is excellent and most beneficial if you are going to attack this problem with a healthy approach. And sorry guys if it was no help to you, prehaps you should go the doctors with your wife and the doc can explain better the concerns you have. This book is for us woman and it is a guide through the longest pause of our life. And please be kind to those you know are smack dab in the middle of it as their day to day life can change in a minute and they don't even have a clue. This is a serious time in a women's life and not just one book will have all the answers but it sure makes for a good start and it is very informative. Good Luck and I am still not sure why it is considered a "Pause" as there seems to be anything but pausing going on. Good Luck and keep your cool, so to speak.
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Summary: Wisdom of Menopause Audio Tape Opinion
Review: I ordered the audio tape, thinking I would be listening to Dr. Northrup reading the book, as Dr. Phil read his book, "Self Matters"., and then I could keep the hard copy of the book on my shelf for reference. With only one tape, there is no way that Dr. Northrup covered what's in her book. The tape should be sub-titled as a lecture to a group of women, which is exactly what it is, not the unabridged version of the book. ...
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Summary: menopause and compassion
Review: I AM HAPPY TO READ THAT THERE ARE DOCTORS WHO DO NOT PUSH
HRT. IF ONLY WOMEN KNEW THE SUFFERING HORSES GO THROUGH TO
MAKE THIS NOXIOUS PRODUCT THEY WOULD THROW IT BACK IN THEIR
DOCTOR'S FACES. THIS BOOK GIVES ALTERNATIVES TO DEALING
WITH A NATURAL PASSAGE WITHOUT COMPROMISING YOURSELF OR
THE MARES FORCED TO ENDURE A LIFE OF PAIN. NONE OF US CAN
EXPECT TO DEAL WITH MENOPAUSE BY CAUSING SUFFERING FOR OTHERS.
THIS GIVES THE ALTERNATIVE.
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Summary: Informative, but dry
Review: Overall, this was an interesting read. However, I feel that it was too unemotional to be a truly helpful for someone looking for empathy in this situation.
Rating:
Summary: Great book!
Review: Can't wait for the movie! Oh no, I forgot to take the turkey out of the oven! Darn, darn, darn!
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