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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.
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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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Summary: The Wisdom of Menopause
Review: As the husband of 26 years of a woman who has started menopause I thought this (book) would be the ideal means to better understand what my life partner was going thru and, most confusing to me, unexplainedly putting me thru. Was I wrong!
I have a hard time putting credence to the words of an individual that uses tarot cards to guide her life (is this a " two thousand's" thing or something?) and who more or less blames her biology and gender for what went wrong in her life and why. For being a doctor I was amazed at the lack of educated insight or reasoned deduction in this woman's life. While she clearly describes what she is going thru and what changes it has made to her thinking I found it difficult to see how she saw 2+2 but swore it equalled 5 (and tries to make you the reader believe it too)! True there are many, many unjustices in the world today that still hold women back or regulate them to suffer undeserved indignities to say that it is because your brain was hard wired one way during the childbearing years and that was why you accepted such but, now that you have experienced menopause you should rewire, foresake all that you now feel hold you back or stiffle you, and go on the attack smacks of what women have complained of for years when their husband goes off the deep end having midlife crisis and buys a sports car and has a fling with his secretary (barmaid, trainer...whatever: younger woman). Hormonal changes change our drives and who we are but Dr. Northrup has to have the worst case of unrecognized hormone imbalance I have ever heard of. When she should have been listening to family, husband, and friends (and talking to her doctor) she instead sells the business, tells her husband to sleep in another room, and decides all that is wrong in her life was caused by society; with her being a pawn rather than a player. I know what her husband feels like as I have been accused of moving my wife's things (memory loss) to the point of being told I am a liar... to threatened with divorce as she thinks she "needs some space." For a man to have a loving partner one day and mere months later a woman he hardly knows because her hormones, or lack of, are now coursing thru her differently is a mind numbing confusing experience. For Dr. Northrup to say "do whatever you feel....it's natural' is to say that the husband has no say in what was a partnership in life and accept the chips as his wife sees fit to have them fall because she now has the "insight to truth". Rather Dr. Northrup should be telling men to get with their wife's doctor and ask her/him how to tactfully and lovingly handle the changes BEFORE menopause occurs so that he is aware and educated in what will be, in some cases, extreme changes in their wife's behavior.As an example: how do you tell your wife she is always angry without out making her angry? And do you have the right to ask the doctor if he/she is seeing the same.
I was deeply disappointed in this book and wouldn't recommend it to any man hoping to gain insight into what his wife is going through.
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