The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

Loved the content of the book. Passed it on to my daughter who hopefully passes it on. Great peer reviewed information easily translated to understand! Important for all women to read irregardless of age.

A must-read for women, this book provides excellent explanations of the myriad of perimemopause and menopause symptoms we experience and of evidence based treatment options.

Very useful, easy read about what to expect, how to converse with doctors, and get more information. Excellent read for those entering or in menopause…and FYI perimenopause can be several years prior to the actual date your period stops.

This book opened my eyes to many causes/symptoms of menopause. Most do not pertain to me, but it's great knowing about them just in case. I highly recommend this book to ALL women as it helps prepare for menopause and provides the knowledge needed to understand it better.

This book has great information on HRT options for women in menopause, which I really appreciated. Not enough doctors know how to treat women who are suffering through menopause, so this book is an important tool for many women out there who have not found help through the conventional medical approach to menopause. I congratulate the author for her wonderful work, and for bringing this information to light.That said - she lost a bit of credibility in my eyes when she stated that things like subclinical hypothyroidism is rare, as are vitamin deficiencies, and that functional medicine doctors only treat women for things like toxins and infections to balance their hormones. Well, the truth is, hormone imbalances are due to toxins and infections, as well as menopause.And, Hypothyroidism is not rare, it's extremely common and it contributes to symptoms of menopause. So detoxifying the body and treating hypothyroidism and adrenal fatigue (since the adrenals take over hormone production when the ovaries stop producing hormones) - are integral components of recovery in my mind. Along with hormone replacement therapy, of course.I've authored, co-authored, or ghostwritten over 20 medical books, and I feel that a bit more of a comprehensive approach than what is mentioned in this book is warranted, such as attention to the hormones that are not directly involved in menopause, but which can influence menopausal symptoms (by the way, thyroid labs are inaccurate much of the time because they don't reveal what the cells are using, only what's in the blood). A few herbs or an anti-depressant are not the best solutions for depression and anxiety, and eating a diet containing whole grains will not help you to lose weight.Still, the author's information on sex hormone replacement is very good, but I feel that she needs to understand other aspects of integrative and functional medicine better - such as the relationship between adrenal steroid and thyroid hormones and menopause, and other things that are making people's hormones imbalanced these days - before making claims that vitamin deficiencies are rare or that detoxification doesn't help the body to heal. It makes me wonder if she has been influenced by Big Pharma, which rejects anything alternative in medicine, or her publisher (as my experience has been that large publishers are afraid to publish anything that goes against the conventional medical establishment's agenda).In nations where environmental toxicity is not so much of a problem, menopausal symptoms are rare. So removing toxins is important as well, because toxins block and damage hormone receptors on cells, skew hormone production, and cause inflammation that affects hormones, among many other things.

I loved this book so much that I gave my copy to a friend — then immediately ordered another one to keep on hand. I know I’ll be sharing it again with the next woman in my life who needs to hear this message, and when I do, I’ll gladly buy another copy. Dr. Haver has done her research, presenting medical information in a way that’s accessible and easy to understand, even for those without a medical background. I finished the book this month and was so motivated that I made an appointment with my primary provider. There is hope — and this book helped me find it!

This is a great book. It’s a reference book for everything you’re going through. I learned a lot and realized how many more symptoms there are.

Any woman over the age of 40 needs to read this book and refer back often. Such good information regardless of your journey.