Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause

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	• Before the Change : Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause Ann Louise Gittleman, 2004 - 304 pages average customer review:based on 56 reviews view larger image
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Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause

Great book from a nutritional standpoint. Helpful in the arsenal of understanding hormonal changes. However, the organic diet is a little unrealistic for the average person's everyday living. Would recommend as a resource guide.

Menopause Symptoms???

This is a great book for all of you ladies out there that are beginning to have menopausal symptoms. Remarkably, symptoms sometimes start in your 30's and if no one tells you that it may be early (Peri) menopause, you begin to make trips to the doctor to relieve the symptoms - this book gives you an alternative to HRT - vitamins, healthy eating and exercise. I keep this book close by at all times even though I am well in menopause. In fact, I've purchased two books and loan one out to my girlfriends when I find out they're suffering also.

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You will refer to this book for years

I bought the first edition of this book after seeing Ann Louise on Dr. Phil. It was exactly the time I experienced my first overt symptom of perimenopause; however, I learned that I had been experiencing the symptoms of lowering progesterone levels for at least five years. SO many things were explained! Since I bought the book, I have referred to it several times when confronted with additional perimenopause symptoms and have implemented Ann Louise's recommendations. No, not every perimenopause symptom hits at once--it's a lengthy progression and every woman seems to be different. No, you're not going crazy--read the book.

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Cutting Through the Questions

I had heard about this book from many of my friends, all of us just over the 50 Mark....and it turned out to be very informational and helpful and encouraging. There are so many books out on the subject of menopause and all the blood, sweat and tears that are part of this time in a woman's life....going into a bookstore is like going into Toys R Us and looking for a Barbie outfit....quite overwhelming.....this book is one of the smart ones to have and to hold and to keep.

Useful, but Flawed

"Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Menopause" by Ann Louis Gittleman explains how to control your Menopause symptoms by changing your diet. There are two parts to the book: Part One is called "Alleviating Symptoms" and Part Two is called "The Changing Diet". The book starts with a list of Perimenopause symptoms and a quiz to see if you are in Perimenopause. The book covers topics such as how to curb carbs, vitamins and minerals, natural hormone cream, exercising, and safe estrogen replacement therapy. There are also several case studies in the book. The Changing Diet Plan Section also includes several recipes. A major part of the book is ten remedies for Perimenopause symptoms. Gittleman calls these remedies "All-Star Peri Zappers" and they include: Flaxseed oils and ground flax seeds; black currant seed oil; multivitamins and magnesium; zinc; natural progesterone cream; exercise; destressing stress; adrenal refresher; hesperidin; and natural estrogen replacement.

"Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Menopause" is a good book for women who like to try and control their Menopause symptoms, especially through diet and nutrition. Gittleman is a nutritionist and the book mainly focuses on how women can use nutritional therapy for Menopause symptoms. There are several useful lists in the book including a list of symptoms caused or made worse by estrogen dominance; a list of Perimenopause symptoms caused by magnesium deficiency; and a list of symptoms of hypothyroidism. There is a very helpful quiz designed to figure out if you burn food fast or slow. The case studies are very interesting. The recipes were also very useful, as where the natural quick fixes for Perimenopause symptoms. What I especially liked about the book is that the lists of symptoms and case studies show that Menopause is a real, but controllable part of life.

While I found the book to be helpful for the most part, there were a few things I didn't like about it. Gittleman spends a little too much time promoting not only books she has written, but several times she'll say that only one product will work effectively and gives the brand name. This happens so often I was beginning to wonder if she was getting a commission from the companies. Her chapter on exercise, an important element in controlling Menopause symptoms, is extremely short and doesn't really explore how important exercise is for aging women. Her suggestion to wash food with a combination of Clorox and water seems extreme, to say the least.

"Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Menopause" is a useful, but flawed book on Menopause.

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