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Summary: For women who've been wondering "What's happening to me?"
Review: Dr. Lee has done it again with a very comprehensive book for women ages 30-50. We spend much more time in the pre-menopause years than most people think. It's a time to build our bodies, regulate our hormones, and get our bones strong before the onset of menopause. If you've ever wondered why your body seems to be "out to get you", this book may provide some answers. With the addition of Dr. Jesse Hanley, a traditional MD who's added a number of "complementary" therapies to her treatment of patients (massage, acupuncture, holistic practices, nutritional support, etc), Dr. Lee broadens his ideas from just the use of natural progesterone to the inclusion of a well-rounded treatment plan. Dr. Lee includes some of the newer research that's been done since his last book, but still is the leading proponent of natural progesterone, and, where needed, natural estrogens. It's your body; I recommend reading about what's happening to it and how to get yourself back to normal. I, for one, am so happy to know there are safer alternatives to the pharmecutical concotions used in traditional HRT. Chapters include topics on: PMS, stress, exercise, nutrition, contraceptive use/misuse, breast cancer, uterine and cervical abnormalities, osteoporosis, heart attacks, and more. There is a comprehensive index, recommened reading list and references, as well as a resource section. 395 pages. Easy to read though packed with information.
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Summary: Recent Studies on Hormone Therapy Validate this Book
Review: Dr. Lee knows what most doctors at the time did not - that unopposed Estrogen therapy increases a women's risk of cancer and stroke. With recent events, where hundreds of thousands of women have been told to get off of hormone replacement therapy, it makes me wonder if most doctors are brain washed by the pharmeceutical corporations. Not Dr. Lee! His advice is natural progesterone cream, increase in vitamin and herbal supplements and change in lifestyle. A great book. I have been following his advice for one week and already feel much better.
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Summary: Learned the *very* hard way - Please Be Careful!
Review: Dr. Lee's book convinced me to try natural progesterone, and it was one of the worst decisions ever. After only one month of use, I developed blood clots in my legs, and became so ill that it has taken over six months to recover. Progesterone cream builds up in your tissues over time and can make you very, very sick. Do not believe it when you read that there are no side effects and it is impossible to overdose. Know that the progesterone you're putting on your skin, although "natural", is capable of having all the same effects as the progesterone in birth control pills and RU-486 ~ in other words, you're using something with serious dangers connected to it. Please, please be careful. Get Barbara Seaman or Ellen Grant, MD's books for better information.
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Summary: Life Saver
Review: EVERY WOMEN IN AMERICA SHOULD READ THIS BOOK. IT DESCRIBES EVERY ONE OF YOU. THE PROGESTERONE CREAM HAS CHANGED MY LIFE.
THANK YOU, DOCTOR LEE.
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Summary: After over a year, I still use this book 2 or 3 times a week
Review: Excellent reference for how the hormones/body functions should work; not just for women ages 30-50, but for a woman of any age with health concerns. This version is a little more layperson-friendly than the Menopause book, but both are excellent references. I'm using it to help combat the side effects of depo provera, and although there is little actual mention of that drug, it is easy to find how similarly birth control pills, hormone replacement therapy, norplant, etc., act on the body.I've purchased several copies for interested friends and relatives and have spent the past year recommending this as a basic reference to the hundreds of women I've met who are battling with the side effects of depo provera and other similar synthetic hormones. Many have found it extremely helpful for their own health concerns.
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Summary: What your Doctor may not have told you about premenopause!!!
Review: First of all I didn't order this as an E-Book. I wanted a real paperback. Your ordering process is totally confusing. I have no desire to have this E-Book, and will NEVER download it. I need the real book, and can't get it. Why is that?????? So as far as I'm concerned the book stinks.
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Summary: THIS BOOK MADE ME SO ANGRY AT MY DOCTORS
Review: For years, I've suffered with so many strange symptoms and now I find out it is almost certainly my hormone levels. I've been through hell and back so would someone please tell me after (all the years of hospitals, psychologists, tests, pain and lost opportunities due to illness) WHY some doctor didn't have a clue? I have all the classic symptoms and have for years. But I had to read a book to find out what was going on. Migraines, hair falling out, debilitating feet/leg cramps, dry skin, dry eye, depression, chronic fatigue syndrome, total exhaustion, muscle weakness, very low blood pressure, low thyroid, low adrenal function...do I need to go on? I did the "spit test" recommended in the book and sure enough--my hormones are screwed up. I started on Progest cream (which I got at Whole Foods for $26) and within 5 days, my energy levels alone have risen dramatically and my hair has stopped falling out. I'm at day 20 in the cycle and still have feet cramps, have a migraine today but my new doctor (Dr. Sharma in Millburn NJ) tells me this stuff may take up to 3 months to show its total effects. She also wrote a prescription up which I'm going to have filled at Liberty Drugs in Chatham NJ which is exactly what I need. Someone needs to start educating doctors. And women need to start insisting that we get better treatment. I'm so disgusted...and so incredibly relieved.
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Summary: What A Relief!
Review: Great book! I am 47 years old and I thought I was losing my physical, mental, and emotional health. When I read this Dr. Lee's, et al books, it was a great relief to know my systems were classic examples of suffering pre-menopausal symptons. Although there were some biological & chemical explanations that were difficult for me to understand in the book, I've benefited greatly by making major decisions such as eating healthy, got off provera and will not let a doctor coerce me into taking HRT treatment as the all-cure solution for pre-menopause/menopause symptons, but will not seek a more alternative and healthy way of life. I will read the "Menopause" book by the same doctor. Great Job!
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Summary: Buy it! Read it!!!
Review: Great information for women of all ages even if you don't have health issues. An absolute necessity if you do.
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Summary: Deceptively Dangerous
Review: I bought this book last fall and thought it was great. I'd just been diagnosed with an orange-sized fibroid and wanted to use natual remedies to avoid a hysterectomy. I also had bad migraines related to hormones and insomnia. I began using progesterone cream and adjusted my diet slightly to conform to Lee's advice. Nine months later my fibroid had increased 4 to 5 centimeters in all directions, my migraines were worse and my insomnia was no better. A friend contacted one of Lee's lackeys via email. This woman wrote back that Lee never said that progesterone cream would shrink a fibroid and that "stress" was the main cause for many. If you read his chapter on the uterus and fibroids it most definitely implies that the progesterone cream will shrink a fibroid. "return for the ultrasound a year later, which WILL show that your fibroid has gone from the size of an orange to the size of a walnut." How about going from the size of an orange to the size of a grapefruit, as mine did on Lee's regimen? I hunted all over the internet for any account by any woman who had found that progesterone cream had shrunk her fibroids and found not one. Even the case history in Lee's book involves a woman who was given Lupron injections, and her fibroid did shrink. But then what happened after the effects of the Lupron wore off? We are not told. Lee's lackey was contacted again. Further mealy-mouthed backpedaling ensued. We were told that once a fibroid reaches a "certain size" it produces its own hormones and progesterone won't reduce it. Why doesn't Lee mention this little detail in his book instead of deceiving people like me who were taken in by his pretty talk? The woman also recommended myomectomy over hysterectomy but made no mention of uterine artery embolization even when pressed. Why not? It's been available in this country for 6 years and France for 8. Lee criticizes other doctors for not doing their research. Why does this book with a January 99 copyright date not mention UAE? I just had one and if I am lucky my fibroid will shrink down to about where it was last fall when it was discovered. How I wish I had never read this book and wasted my time on natural therapies that were worse than useless. If I'd gotten the UAE last fall, I could expect my orange-sized fibroid to go to the size of a plum. However, I did not know that UAE existed. Had to find that out for myself on the internet. Lee could have written about it in his book. He could have mentioned that orange-sized fibroids are too big to shrink by natural means but he stated the opposite. He owes it to his readers to revise and correct the misconceptions he has disseminated. By the way, the AMAS cancer detecting test he advocates in this book is completely discredited in the medical field. Why doesn't he know that? I presume his comments re diet and environmental pollutants are accurate because I've seen them elsewhere, so the book is not a total waste. I wonder about his claims that progesterone rebuilds bone, or if they are as much of a lie as his other assertions.
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