Natural Menopause
Perimenopause is a time to tune into your body’s needs, to minimize stress and engage in self-care. Menopause is a natural life passage.
Natural Menopause • Hormone Health • Hot Flash Relief • A Good Night’s Sleep • Bone Health • Sexual Health
Natural Menopause
Menopause: Initiation Into Power Teachings and Meditations to Unleash Creativity and Intuition at Midlife
Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.
From a bodymind perspective midlife hormonal shifts don’t end with physical changes and symptoms to manage, but drive a deep process of emotional and spiritual integration that gives rise to new levels of insight, energy, creativity and meaning. A master teacher explores the science and spirituality of menopause as a new life phase, with tools to tap into the power and purpose it seeks to reveal. Product Details and To Purchase
The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing During the Change
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
A whole-woman approach to how hormonal changes affect the brain and drive women’s transformation at menopause, by the leading expert in women’s health. Reviews bio-identical hormones, and lifestyle changes to support hormone balance, bone and breast health, and stabilize weight, and explores the unique opportunities for personal growth, renewed inspiration, sexual freedom, and professional satisfaction and productivity in this stage of life. Read our review. Product Details and To Purchase
Yoga and the Wisdom of Menopause: A Guide to Physical, Emotional and Spiritual Health at Midlife and Beyond
Susan Francina
This wonderfully straightforward guide shows how yoga can be a powerful tool to turn menopause into a positive and empowering experience of emotional, physical and spiritual balance. Even if you’re a beginner. Pictures of models of all body types show that there’s no perfect yoga body, and using props encourages staying in poses longer for a deep restorative effect. Poses to relieve menopausal symptoms and rebalance hormones, including hot flashes, irregular bleeding, stress and anxiety, mood swings, depression, fatigue and bone loss. Product Details and To Purchase
Before the Change: Taking Charge of Your Perimenopause
Louise Gittleman, Ph.D., C.N.S.
From a nutrition specialist in women’s health, a practical guide to taking charge of your perimenopause naturally and effectively with lifestyle changes, including diet and supplements to balance estrogen, and managing stress to support adrenal hormones. Addresses hot flashes, insomnia and other symptoms, the pros and cons of specific supplements, and provides insights into hypothyroidism and hormone balance in the context of whole body health. Product Details
Hormone Havoc: Discover the Best Natural Remedies For The Perimenopausal Years
Louise Gittleman, Ph.D, C.N.S.
A convenient audio version of Before the Change, a thorough discussion of perimenopause, safe and effective vitamins, minerals and herbs to support hormonal balance, benefits of bio-identical hormones vs. synthetic hormone replacement, and the role of essential fats, protein and slow-acting carbohydrates in a Changing Diet Plan to manage symptoms and support your body’s changing needs. Product Details
Hormone Health
Salivary Hormone Home Testing kit
Simple to use test kit helps you evaluate your hormone levels from saliva samples. The progesterone-estradiol ratio identifies estrogen dominance (imbalance), estriol shows the health of vaginal tissue, and testosterone levels indicate healthy libido and lean muscle. Help pinpoint the root of symptoms, from low energy to urinary tract infections, weight gain, mood swings, osteoporosis, menopause symptoms, and PMS. Results include recommendations to regain hormone balance naturally. Product Details
Dr. John Lee’s Hormone Balance Made Simple: The Essential How-to Guide to Symptoms, Dosage, Timing, and More
John Lee, M.D. & Virginia Hopkins
This is a straightforward guide to hormones, how they work, symptoms of imbalance, and how to test for hormone imbalance and use natural hormone replacement (bio-identicals, or tri-estrogen). Describes the biochemistry of mood swings, hot flashes and how the ovaries work in simple terms. This is the classic primer for individualizing a natural hormone regimen from the pioneer of natural hormone therapy. Product Details
What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause: The Book on Natural Hormone Balance
John Lee, M.D. & Virginia Hopkins
From the pioneer of natural hormone and progesterone research, detailed answers on how your hormones work, including the source of hot flashes, irregular periods, heavy bleeding, weight gain and other symptoms of hormone imbalance. Learn how natural hormones (bio-identicals, or tri-estrogens), prevent osteoporosis, restore your tired adrenals, and use diet, exercise and lifestyle changes to balance your hormones without using synthetic HRT. Product Details
Women’s Phase I
Premenstrual Support
Vitanica Botanicals are vitamin, mineral and herbal supplements formulated by Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D., the naturopathic physician specializing in women’s health for over 25 years. This clinically tested formula includes vitamins E, B6, calcium, magnesium, as well as wild yam, dandelion, dong quai, passion flower. St. John’s wort, chaste tree and ginkgo, traditionally used to gently assist in restoring natural balance to fluctuating hormone levels. Product Details
Women’s Phase II
Menopause Support
This Vitanica Botanical supplement formulated by Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D. to provide relief for menopausal symptom relief, has proved effective in double blind placebo controlled trials conducted at two US Naturopathic Colleges. Includes dong quai, angelica, licorice, burdock, motherwort and wild yam, many with phytoestrogens that nourish and balance hormones to help relieve menopausal symptoms. Product Details
Estrogen The Natural Way
Nina Shandler
This cookbook is a terrific resource for perimenopausal and menopausal women looking for natural alternatives to conventional HRT. Great recipes show you how to use phytoestrogens (plant estrogens found in foods) in your diet. 250 recipes include snacks, main courses and desserts, plus learn how to incorporate soy, flaxseed, and other foods high in phytoestrogens into your diet. Product Details
Natural Woman, Natural Menopause
Marcus Laux, N.D. & Christine Conrad
Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D. recommends this classic text that helps explain the physiologic differences between conventional hormone replacement therapy and natural hormone (bio-identical) therapy using phytoestrogens (plant-derived hormones). Good information, especially for the technically inclined, including scientific references, resources and practical guidelines. Product Details
Feeling Fat, Fuzzy, or Frazzled?: A 3-Step Program to: Restore Thyroid, Adrenal, and Reproductive Balance, Beat Hormone Havoc, and Feel Better Fast
Richard Shames, M.D.& Karilee Shames, R.N.
From founders of the American Association of Holistic Medicine, a practical guide to restoring systemic glandular balance through lifestyle and dietary change, and natural remedies. They explain the broader hormonal shifts triggered by changing estrogen levels that drive menopause, and the Type Assessment – feeling fat (thyroid driven), fuzzy-thinking (sex gland driven), and frazzled (adrenal driven) – provide a useful frame to understand chronic and subclinical symptoms. Product Detail
Adrenal Fatigue: The 21st Century Stress Syndrome
James Wilson, N.D., Ph.D. & Jonathon Wright, M.D.
Because of its role in taking over estrogen production for the ovaries as they age, keeping stress in check to support adrenal function is an integral part of naturally managing menopause. The cumulative effects of stress have far reaching effects, including subclinical symptoms of fatigue, as well as changing metabolism, fluid balance, energy production, immune function, heart rate and muscle tone. Useful assessment and healing strategies; also addresses food sensitivities, supplements and offers a daily support program. Product Details
Adrenal Assist
Another Vitanica Botanical formulated by Dr. Tori Hudson, N.D. provides key nutrients and botanicals that supports the adrenal response to stress, restores balance, and increases your resilience and ability to adapt to stress. Includes vitamins C, B5, B6, magnesium, and phytoestrogenic (plant-based estrogens) and adaptogenic herbs (that maintain optimum homeostasis) including rhodiola, astragalus, lepidium, ashwagandha, holy basil, schizandra, and eleutherococcus. Product Details
Iodine Loading At-Home Test for Iodine Deficiency
Conventional medical thyroid tests measure iodine levels in the blood, while this home test helps determine how well your tissues absorb iodine, helping you get to the bottom of thyroid imbalance and low adrenal function, that may also be implicated in fibrocystic breasts, sleep apnea, cardiac arrhythmia, diabetes and hypertension. With your urine sample results, you’ll receive recommendations for next steps to support your thyroid, including diet, supplementation, and lifestyle modification. Product Details
The Ultra Thyroid Solution: A 7-Step Plan to Reverse Hypothyroidism Permanently
Mark Hyman, M.D.
With his characteristic and remarkable thoroughness, Dr. Hyman offers a complete guide to not only assess and take action to balance your thyroid hormones, but also to understand how it may underlie many ‘unexplained’ or chronic illnesses, from depression, heart disease, chronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, PMS, menopausal symptoms, muscle and joint pain, irritable bowel, autoimmune diseases and obesity. Read our review: The Undiagnosed Link in Women’s Health. Product Details
HOT FLASH RELIEF
Hot Times: How to Eat Well, Live Healthy, and Feel Sexy During the Change
Louise Gittleman, Ph.D, C.N.S.
With the latest research in nutrition, Dr. Gittleman zeros in on relieving the common symptoms of hormone fluctuations, including hot flashes and insomnia, with a focused lifestyle, diet and exercise program. Her recipes focus on using unprocessed, unrefined natural foods as well as leafy green vegetables, fresh fruits, whole grains, good fats, fish and lean meats to support hormonal balance. Includes a revitalizing exercise program. Product Details
Black Cohosh
Clinically studied for over 40 years for its ability to reduce menopausal discomfort, this standardized extract provides consistent benefits for natural control and relief of menopausal symptoms, including hot flashes, night sweats and mood swings. * Product Details
Evening Primrose Oil
EPO is revered for providing relief from symptoms associated with PMS and menopause such as cramps, hot flashes, breast tenderness and moodiness. * Product Details
Cold Milled Certified Organic Flaxseed
Eat alone or sprinkle it on cereal, salads, snacks and other foods for a nutty crunchy flavor and texture. With omega-3 and 6 fatty acids, four tablespoons supplies almost as much oil as one tablespoon of flax oil, plus fiber, protein, and lignans. The pouch is resealable and vacuum-packed to remove air and exclude light for optimum freshness. Product Details
Vitamin E
Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant that neutralizes the damages of free radicals, protecting and supporting the cardiovascular system, brain function, eyesight, immunity, blood sugar, and helps keep skin clear and healthy. Drugs that may deplete Vitamin E include cholestyramine, colestipol, isoniazid, and mineral oil. * Product Details
Chill Cooling Towels
Use this pre-moistened cotton terry cloth towel for an instant cooling sensation that cuts the heat of hot flashes for instant relief. Use them at work, for night sweats, or wear it around your neck to help lower your body temperature during sports. Innovative, convenient and portable, they keep cooling for the duration while on your skin. Comes in three size and can be reused. Product Details
Jenna Pajamas Wicking J Sleepwear
A simple way to provide great relief from hot flashes and night sweats, the quick drying fabric in these soft and comfortable pajamas wicks moisture away and evaporates it quickly. Built right into the yarn, the heat-release technology never washes out. Also eliminates odors so you wake up dry and feeling fresh. Choose from among several available styles. Product Details
Chilli Pad Cooling Mattress
This has to be the ultimate solution for effective relief from hot flashes and night sweats! This innovative mattress creates an equally balanced temperature to consistently keep you at your desired temperature throughout the night. The single zone model adjusts only your side of the bed, while the dual zone model is adjustable for couples to help you get a good, restful night’s sleep. Product Details
A GOOD NIGHT’S SLEEP
Memory Sleep Pillow>
Tempur-Pedic cervical pillows is ergonomically designed to cradle your neck at the proper angle and conforms to your head for maximum comfort. It’s like sleeping on a cloud. Supports you while you sleep to prevent neck, and shoulder pain. Has been known to assist with snoring, sleep apnea or obstructive sleep apnea problems. Made from hypoallergenic materials. Product Details
TwiLight Mini
If you tend to wake periodically during the night this proven blue light spectrum therapy is designed to restore your body’s natural sleep patterns. Set the flickerless blue light developed by NASA on your bed stand and turn it on 30-60 minutes before falling asleep. Helps you to fall asleep faster and sleep more soundly while your circadian rhythm and melatonin cycle is naturally rebalanced. Be more alert and experience a more restful sleep. Product Details
Daybreak Alarm Clock
Waking your body with a gentle increase of light, this clinically proven dawn and dusk simulator helps to reset your body’s light hormones and biorhythms so that you awaken naturally refreshed and alert, not to jarring sounds. Programmable for sunrise and sunset settings, just plug your bedside lamp into the back of the unit and set the “light alarm” to your preferences, and the lamp will gradually increase in brightness over 15 minutes to 2 hours. Sunset mode gradually dims your lamp to signal your body clock that it’s time to fall asleep. Product Details
Ecotones
Sound Therapy System
Create soothing natural environments with this amazing sound therapy system that listens to sounds around you and responds by creating a soothing natural sound environment. High quality audio of over a thousand natural sounds plays without repeating, including soothing seaside, babbling brook, gentle rain, distant thunderstorm, crackling fire, pure meditation, and more. Three operating modes to mask background sounds and react to changes in the environment, a background mode that automatically dims with conversation, and manual. Includes 120 minute sleep timer. Product Details
SleepBlend
It’s not uncommon for the fluctuating hormone levels of menopause to disrupt your sleep. This gentle and nourishing vitamin, mineral and herbal formula was developed by naturopath Tori Hudson, N.D. contains B vitamins, calcium, melatonin and several gentle-acting herbs, including passionflower, hops, and valerian, traditionally used to help your body to relax and to fall asleep and stay asleep. * Product Details
Rescue Sleep
Homeopathic Sleep Formula
This homeopathic remedy is formulated to calm your restless mind and provide symptomatic natural relief of occasional sleeplessness from repetitive restless or stressful thoughts. Spray two sprays onto your tongue before you turn out the light. You can use more during the night as needed. Product Details
Health Journeys: A Meditation to Help You With Healthful Sleep
Belleruth Naparstek
With soothing music and evocative guided imagery for relaxation, Naparstek helps you ease into pleasant drowsiness and then to sleep. With regular use guided imagery, along with other pre-sleep rituals like no TV, darkness, eating before bedtime, etc, can help entrain your body and hormonal system into a better sleep pattern by actually encouraging body-based sleep memories. Product Details
Good Night Sleep Kit
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
For more restful sleep or to improve your energy, this kit provides an integrated body, mind, and spirit approach full of practical tips and helpful tools that help you sleep. Start with the Body Type test based on Ayurvedic principles by Dr.Chopra to evaluate how you can adjust your behaviors and identify other remedies for your body type. The kit includes an aromatherapy oil, meditation CD, dream journal, dream cards and informative booklet. Product Details
Bone Health
Strong Women Stay Young
Miriam Nelson, Ph.D. & Sarah Wernick
This great book is a favorite of Jennifer’s for getting to the core of why muscle strength holds many benefits for women as we age. Offers comprehensive guidance for how to customize your workout plan, exercises, and emphasizes the value of weight training to prevent osteoporosis and promote bone health, as well as to preserve muscle strength and balance. Product Details
Better Bones, Better Body : Beyond Estrogen and Calcium
Susan Brown, Ph.D., C.N.S & Russell Jaffe,M.D.
A medical anthropologist and nutritionist, Dr. Brown wants you to know that osteoporosis is not a normal part of aging, and that estrogen and calcium deficiencies are only two factors involved in bone loss. She explains how bone breakdown and renewal is a continual process, addresses early signs of bone loss, and reviews key risk factors. Includes an osteoporosis risk assessment and a step-by-step program for strengthening bones and overall health. A rich whole body balance approach to improving bone health as well as overall health. Product Details
Vitamin D Test Kit
Recent research shows that low vitamin D levels are linked to many chronic diseases, including breast and colon cancer, heart disease, and autoimmune diseases, as well as being a critical ingredient in bone health and in preventing osteoporosis. You can measure your vitamin D levels at home with a finger stick and a few drops of blood on blotting paper. Lab results are easy-to-interpret and help to ensure you’re taking adequate – and not excess – vitamin supplementation. Product Details
Ipriflavone Plus
As active, living tissue bones need several nutrients to preserve mineral mass, maintain supporting structures, and promote repair. Studies suggest that ipriflavone provides nutritive support for bone density by inhibiting breakdown of bone and can be useful for people with moderate to severe risk factors for osteoporosis. Contains absorbable forms of calcium, magnesium, vitamin D, silica (from horsetail) and ipriflavone. As part of your bone health program with this multivitamin formula, ipriflavone provides adequate cofactors while assuring you aren’t taking more supplements than you need. * Product Details
Glucosamine Sulfate +Chondroitin
To support healthy cartilage and joints, glucosamine and chondroitin sulfate are important components of connective tissue, responsible for building and supporting cartilage. Bromelain, turmeric and ginger add anti-inflammatory actions. As a nutritional supplement, this compound provides potent support for strong, healthy cartilage and joints. * Product Details
Building Bone Vitality: A Revolutionary Diet Plan to Prevent Bone Loss and Reverse Osteoporosis – Without Dairy Foods, Calcium, Estrogen, or Drugs
Amy Landou, Ph.D. & MIchael Castleman
As a senior nutrition scientist for the Physician’s Committee on Responsible Medicine, Dr. Lanou’s research indicates that the key to continually renewing bone cells isn’t taking in enough calcium per se, but a diet that keeps calcium in the bone, and not in the blood. Her findings suggest that eating a predominantly plant and grain based diet while reducing acid-forming processed foods, sugars and meat that leach calcium from bone (in an attempt to re-alkalinize the blood) naturally maintains optimum pH balance and helps to preserve and grow healthy bones. Read our review. To Purchase
The Acid-Alkaline Food Guide: A Quick Reference to Foods & Their Effect on pH Levels
Susan Brown, M.D. & Larry Trivieri
Studies repeatedly show that a slightly alkaline diet prevents inflammation, diabetes, heart disease, osteoporosis and slows the signs of aging. This guide does a good job of explaining much of what’s complicated about what should be straightforward: eat less acid-forming foods and focus on alkaline forming foods. However the pH of some foods change after you eat them, for example citrus fruits alkalinize your body. Includes guidelines to help you analyze foods, and lists the acid/alkaline ranges of thousands of foods. Product Details
pHion Diagnostic pH Test Strips
Test Your Body’s Acidity or Alkalinity
There is a strong correlation between the pH of the body’s internal environment and the urine and saliva, which become acidic when the body becomes acidic. To maintain overall good health, the body is constantly getting rid of excess acids that irritate tissues and deplete minerals. When your body has adequate mineral reserves, it shows up in the saliva as a high pH, while a low saliva pH reading indicates that mineral reserves are low, buffering acids elsewhere in the body. An invaluable tool to monitor your bone health program. Also important in blood sugar, weight, stress and mood control and balance. Product Details
NTx Bone Loss Analysis Test Kit
This test indicates your rate of bone breakdown and risk of osteoporosis. Bone loss leading to osteoporosis can begin as early as age 30! Calcium intake, exercise, diet, alcohol, smoking, stress, medications and family history can all affect bone loss and osteoporosis. The test results are a good indicator of whether what you are doing, or not doing, is putting you at risk, so you can take preventative action now before it is too late. Product Details
Restorative Exercise for Strong Bones Kit
Most everyone knows that weight-bearing exercise is one of the most important ways to keep bones strong and fit, but don’t know that conventional fitness exercises are usually not specific enough to generate bone. This 40min program target sites at risk for bone loss: hips, wrists, vertebrae, and ribs, with exercises designed to increase bone loading. Kit includes slower-paced exercise to increase motor skills and tubing to add resistance and build strength. DVD. Product Details
Resistance Cord Kits
Resistance training is an important part of building strong muscles and bones. Placing your body under new stresses (resistance) your body has to adapt to handle them – by making your muscles bigger and stronger and your bones more dense. Stretch resistance cords create smooth constant resistance that is easier on your joints that lifting weights. Resistance Cord Workout DVD with expert trainer . Available in light, medium and heavy resistance levels.Product Details
Women’s Qi Gong for Health and Longevity: A Practical Guide for Women Forty and Older
Deborah Davis, M.Ac.
This amazing handbook uses the ancient Chinese practice of Qigong for self-care and healing for the range of health challenges women face as we get older. Helps you calm and balance your emotions, strengthen your heart and bones, maintain your balance and agility, relieve insomnia, and alleviate common symptoms of menopause. Chapters are organized by life stage and health issue so you can develop your program to balance your hormones and reduce stress with a 15 – 30 minute routine per day. Product Details
SEXUAL HEALTH
The Secret Pleasures of Menopause
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
A powerful woman’s advocate and specialist in natural healing, we’ve come to expect Dr. Northrup to tell it like it is, and here she breaks some new, and sometimes surprising, ground, from the need to practice self-pleasure, to the news about nitric oxide, to understanding why the sex drive seem to fizzle with age in women, as well numerous physical causes of low libido, from antidepressants to adrenal burnout. Read our review. Product Details
The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook: A Guide to Creating Vibrant Health Through Pleasure
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
Discoveries about nitric oxide, an odorless gas released during orgasm that signals blood vessels to relax, widen and lower blood pressure, earned scientists a Nobel Prize, and led to the development of Viagra. Dr. Northrup takes the pleasure principle a step further, with stories of women enhancing this life-giving force by creating joyful lives through speaking their truth, healing their past, and letting go of mindsets and behaviors that no longer serve them. Product Details
Good Clean Love
Organic Personal Lubricants
Most personal lubricants are made with petrochemicals and preserved with methyl and propyl parabens, and some women – and men – experience burning, irritation, and other discomfort. These personal lubricants and pleasure butters are made from the finest base and aromatic essential oils that nourish, soften and heal skin. Intimate protection for delicate tissue. Read our review. Product Details and to Purchase
Acupressure for Lovers: Secrets of Touch for Increasing Intimacy
Michael Reed Gach, Ph.D.
In Chinese medicine, acupressure points are considered gateways for the human electrical energy that runs throughout the body. Pressure points help to free the flow of energy to enhance sexual pleasure. Gach includes tips to eliminate stress and tension, and promote relaxation while enhancing eroticism and intimacy with acupressure points. Guidelines to stimulate sexual energy, build intimacy, for arousal and mutual stimulation. Includes diagrams and photos, and clear instructions. Product Details
Sexual Response Cream
Designed by women physicians, this natural topical cream of vasodilating, warming and stimulating amino acids, herbal extracts and essential oils naturally supports clitoral and vaginal arousal and women’s sexual health. Apply directly to external vulvar tissue over the clitoral region and massage it in gently to awaken warm and tingling sensations of arousal. Product Details
Kegel Exerciser
Half of women who have had children experience a degree of organ prolapse that leads to incontinence, constipation, pain or sexual dysfunction. Adding resistance while doing your classic Kegel exercises improves your results, strengthening pelvic muscles helping to reduce or eliminate incontinence, preventing prolapse, tightening vaginal muscles – and improving the intensity, duration, and frequency of vaginal orgasms. Product Details
Vitamin E Suppositories
Vitamin E is gentle, natural nourishment recommended by gynecologists to address symptoms of vaginal tissue thinning like dryness, itching, irritation, burning, or pain that may be constant, or occur only during intercourse. Insert it easily into the vagina to moisturize and nourish the delicate tissue as part of a program to increase local circulation with the Kegel exerciser, and hydrating tissue by drinking plenty of water. Product Details
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