Menopause Symptoms Report

Menopause for Women and Men – I NEED YOUR STORIES

I need your menopause and andropause stories to share with my newsletter subscribers.

If you are going through, or have been through this mid-life transition, and have an interesting story that could help others, please go to this web page http://www.menopauseinfo.org/menopause-share-your-story.html
and send me an email.

I have a brief questionnaire that will help you organize your thoughts and for your effort, I’ll send you a free gift.

Grumpy Old Men – Male Menopause is for Real

Came across an article about Jed Diamond’s book, Male Menopause – this one is for the guys!

GRUMPY old men have long been an established figure of fun. In recent years they’ve even had their own television shows. But now they’re up for therapy. For it now seems that crustiness among us mid-life chaps isn’t necessarily a natural carnaptious rite of passage we must undergo before collecting our bus pass and slippers: just as women have to negotiate the change of life, with its attendant hormone-generated mood swings, depression and low libido, now it is being argued that men also experience “change of life”, and can suffer from a related condition, labelled irritable male syndrome, which should be more widely recognised.

Irritable male syndrome (IMS) is not just the long-suffering spouse’s nickname for what happens when the TV remote gets lost down the side of the sofa. According to Jed Diamond, an American psychotherapist specialising in men’s health, it is an identifiable condition, resulting in depression, moodiness, anxiety and low sex drive. And, he believes, going by the testimony of hundreds of people he has interviewed, IMS can, and does, destroy relationships – it almost broke up his own marriage … read the rest of this story here

My Personal Menopause Protocol

Since sharing my story, many of you have inquired as to what my personal protocol is to handle my symptoms. So here it is:

First, and foremost, I use Progesterone cream from the 14th to the 28th of each month, twice a day. See http://www.everythingmenopause.com for more information.

Next I use the following supplements on a daily basis:
Juice Plus (a very powerful antioxidant)
5HTP (manages depression, and I come from a family history with lots of depression)
B Complex (for stress)
CoQ10 (for a heart related issue I’ll talk about in the newsletter soon)
Omega 3 oils
Vitalzyme (a systemic enzyme that is incredible for digestion and other things including eliminate scar tissue — I’ll talk about this product again)
L Glutamine (to heal the stomach issues)

Here’s a health tip that will get you through the cold season – whenever I feel a cold virus coming on, I take olive leaf extract and colloidal silver. Works for me every time.

More tips later.