Quotes from Susun Weed's
NEW Menopausal Years The Wise Woman Way,
Alternative Approaches for Women 30-90
More hysterectomies are done because of fibroids than for any other reason. By the age of sixty, more than one third of American women have given up their wombs to surgeons.
The Twenty-five percent of postmenopausal women with the highest bone mass are two and a half to four times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those with the lowest bone mass.
Some natural lubricants to combat menopausal vaginal dryness: coconut oil, vitamin E, acidophilus, comfrey ointment, honey, or olive oil.
Six ways to prevent breast cancer:
1. Don't use seed oils (soy, corn, cottonseed, sesame, sunflower, canola).
2. Don't take supplemental hormones of any kind-not even "natural" ones
3. Do breast self-exams regularly instead of that annual mammogram.
4. Eat more beans, especially lentils. Avoid soy unless it's fermented.
5. Eat more fruits and vegetables, at least five servings a day.
6. Wear your bra for less than twelve hours a day.
At least one out of every ten women in America is currently diagnosed with a thyroid disorder.Women who gain up to one pound a year for ten years during menopause have less severe hot flashes, denser bones, and better over-all health.
In the minds of many MDs and gynecologists, menopause is a single event, a definitive end: the last menses. Everything before that last drop of blood is called 'perimenopause,' and everything after that last drop is 'postmenopausal.' To this way of thinking, there are no menopausal women, only peri- and postmenopausal women. This is like defining puberty as the first drop of blood and nothing more.
-Susun WeedDuring the menopausal years, numb legs and cramped calves and feet could be caused by:
· Heart problems
· Osteoporosis
· Smoking tobacco
· Inactivity
· Hypothyroidism
· Restless legs syndrome
· FybromyalgiaTwo self-tests to see if your thyroid levels are normal:
1. Paint tincture of iodine on exposed skin. If it disappears within an hour, you need more iodine (and your thyroid is probably unhappy).
2. For four mornings in a row, take your armpit temperature first thing, while resting quietly. The average of four readings should be between 97.8 and 98.2.
Email: susunweed@herbshealing.com
NEW Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way:
Alternative Approaches for Women 30 - 90
by Susun S. Weed
Foreword by Juliette de Bairacli Levy.
304 pages, index, magical illustrations.
Completely revised with 100 new pages. All the remedies women know and trust plus hundreds of new ones. New sections on thyroid health, fibromyalgia, hairy problems, male menopause, and herbs for women taking hormones. Recommended by Susan Love MD and Christiane Northrup MD.
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