I'm Too Young for This!: The Natural Hormone Solution to Enjoy Perimenopause Read Online Free

ten to twelve years before menopause, when there is an almost sudden drop in all our hormones. That’s why the effect is so, as they say, “in your face.” Men have it a little easier, although the outcome reached is similar. On an emotional level, testosterone is what gives men their enthusiasm and confidence. When it drops too low they experience the blues and grumpiness just like we do.
    At present the orthodox medical community doesn’t acceptthat there are safe, effective, natural ways to deal with this challenging passage. They deal with the symptoms of this life transition by prescribing various drugs, what I call the Band-Aid approach. But these solutions promote other negative health changes in women and men, and cause many other conditions to worsen as a result.
    This is the book you’ve been waiting for. I’ve been there and survived and I am now enjoying superb health and an incredible quality of life; in fact, my experience is joyous.
    You too can enjoy perimenopause! Yes, I said enjoy and I mean it.
    I will explain what I did, whom I learned from, and what you can expect. It’s all good. You are going to be fine; in fact, your life will be better in most cases than ever before. This book will guide you through this difficult and confusing passage.
    You are about to get your life back. You are about to be able to enjoy each day and wake up happy and balanced. You are about to realize that this next passage brings with it confidence, joy, and wisdom. You are about to enter the best time of your life. What you have been experiencing—not understanding your feelings, your moods, your body changes, your lack of control—has been devastating.
    You want better. You deserve better.
    Your answers are here. Say good-bye to the Band-Aid approach of traditional medicine. You are going to have energy, vitality, without drugs. You are going to feel like having sex again (even if right now you don’t think you care), your moods are going to stabilize, and your weight will normalize. You are going to be okay, and you are going to be healthy … very healthy. Stay with me.
    The health issues you face are fixable by restoring hormones the natural way. No matter your age or gender, restoring yourhormones to their optimal healthy levels has the same effect as giving water to a dying plant.
    Before we go any further, let’s take a peek at exactly what’s going on inside the female body during our different life transitions.

CHAPTER 1
     

 

CHANGE, CHANGE, CHANGE—A BASIC LOOK AT OUR BODIES AND THEIR TRANSITIONS
     
    Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and you cry with your girlfriends.
    —Laurie Kuslansky
     
    Today, looking at my granddaughters as they enter puberty I understand from my own life experience that they can’t know that the ease of their little girl lives is now going to start becoming complicated. Chemical changes and life itself become very difficult to understand. This is the life cycle. As we enter womanhood we grow breasts, our moods change, our bodies change, the
known
is now
unknown
, uncharted new territory.
    Becoming a woman, especially
before you are a woman
, is a difficult passage at best. There is so much pressure. You may be the first one in your class to get your period, or the last one; bothscenarios feel awful. You may be the one with the huge boobs, or the one whose breasts have not grown at all and the boys notice. Again, either way, other kids make fun of you, and you feel mortified.
    I was the last in my class to grow breasts and the last to get my period. I was so embarrassed by this that I pretended I had my period when I really didn’t just so I wasn’t
the
one who was “
out of the group
.” I made up stories about my “cramps” like the other girls. There was always some girl in the class who had cramps so bad, real or imagined, that she had to be sent home. I wished so much then that it could be me. (Imagine.)
    One day, the other girls found out I was lying when