What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause
John R Lee MD with Virginia Hopkins
This book was so enlightening! As someone going through menopause, I always wondered if I should be on something, remembering back to when my mom had a hysterectomy and was put on HRT (hormone replacement therapy) and hearing so many people say I should be on estrogen. I have always been reluctant to go on estrogen as I have heard so many terrible things about it. This book is very straight about estrogen and progesterone and what they each do. Estrogen creates growth, progesterone creates maturity from the growth. A woman's body can handle lower levels of estrogen with no problem in most cases, but it's the lower levels of progesterone that are bad news. A woman should in most cases not be on an estrogen supplement, but should be on a progesterone cream----not a progestin which is a chemically tweaked version, but a natural progesterone like wild yam. This book explains why, and how much you should be taking, and yes, you should be taking it for the rest of your life, as it helps protect against osteoporosis, heart issues, mental decline, and more! I immediately ordered some good quality wild yam cream after reading this (transdermal progesterone is absorbed better through the body--through pill or digestive tract, much of it is excreted from the body) and I honestly could feel an improvement in my body after just a week.
I highly recommend this book. This printing was from 1996. I am interested to know if any of the information has changed since then, but it seemed pretty solid and factual.
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