There Has Never Been A Better Time To Be A Menopausal Woman!

You Are At A Crossroads

When you're in the thick of menopause symptoms, struggling to get through the day, you probably don't realise you're at a significant crossroads with your health.

Carry on as you are and before long (if not already) you will enter the 'disease management' system, aka as conventional medicine. This is the common, accepted, and normal thing to do. Most women do it. It's what's expected.

The amount of times I've heard women even in their 50s and 60s shrug off symptoms and illness by saying "Well it's because I'm getting older, what can I expect!"

This attitude and lack of knowledge is the route of declining energy levels, increasingly regular visits to the doctor's, a growing list of pharmaceutical drugs and creeping decrepitude.

Or you could choose to turn away from this, because as far as I'm concerned all of the above is a choice these days. Many women make this choice out of ignorance because they don't know about the alternative.

Too many women put their health totally in their doctor's hands. Our medical education doesn't train us to restore health when it's lost. We're taught to suppress symptoms with drugs.

Symptom suppression is not health.

You've got the opportunity to buck this trend of getting old before your time by rebooting your system, giving it a generous injection of energy, and winding your biological clock back.

There Is A Lot A Stake For You!

If you're in the full swing of your menopause you might be feeling like crap, and that's bad enough (especially as there's no need!!)

However, worse is yet to come if you don't also have your eye on the bigger picture.

If you haven't started a serious maintenance programme for your health yet - your decline has started.

This decline will continue, and you will suffer the consequences. I see this every day in my work as a GP, and it's heart-breaking, because it doesn't need to be like this. Here's just a few examples:

• Heart disease is the biggest killer of women - it's largely avoidable, you don't need to die early of this.
• Alzheimer's is more common in women - it kills as many of us as breast cancer, it's preventable.
• Frailty and bone fractures lead to as many deaths as breast cancer too - again avoidable.

It was looking at the bigger picture that really gave me the kick up the backside to get my arse in gear to create a holistic and well researched plan. This has not only given me my energy and health back now, but given me great confidence about my future health and happiness.

What choice will you make for yourself?

Continue to stoically plod through your menopause, crossing your fingers you won't become a regular at your doctor's?

Or buck the trend and take advantage of what's available to you in the 21st century as middle-aged women.

I've made my choice and I'd like you with me.