Diana M.D. Schwarzbein - Menopause Power Take Charge Guide: Everything You Need to Work With Your Doctor to Manage Menopause Correctly!

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ISBN Number: 978-0-9840181-3-0

First Edition: January 2012

Ebook Edition: May 2013

To Jonathan Cleary, my brilliant husband, partner, and co-author.

Thank you so much for helping me find the right words.

Your humor and humanity enliven me.

and

To L and B, who made this collaboration possible.

Jonathan and I are forever grateful.

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Changing the way menopause is viewed and treated.

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It's time!

Welcome to Menopause Power! I sincerely appreciate that you have taken the initiative to learn more about menopause and to become better prepared to be an active participant in making decisions about how to manage your menopause.

Change requires change

That most women are now living into their eighties and beyond is a cause for celebration. It wasn't that long ago that women died in their fifties and early sixties; menopause was only a small portion of their lives. Today, of course, women are living thirty to forty percent of their lives in menopause, and it is becoming increasingly apparent that menopause undermines a woman's metabolic health, promotes degenerative disease, and accelerates aging and death.

This more modern, metabolic view of menopause - as a medical condition to be managed for the long term - is early in its adoption among physicians. Both physicians and women in menopause need to change some longstanding, entrenched thinking and practices.

Fortunately, unlike in the past, we now have the scientific knowledge, the technology, and the clinical experience to treat menopause effectively and safely. Changing the way menopause is currently treated is just a matter of time.

Awareness and education are almost always at the forefront of change

Through Menopause Power, I am doing everything I can to raise awareness and provide helpful, educational resources for women. I am also providing educational resources for physicians.

As an adjunct to this Take Charge Guide, I have a letter for you to give to your doctor. This Dear Colleague letter is a request to help bring about the changes in thinking and practice that are needed to help protect women's health. The letter includes an invitation to receive, at no cost, my recently published paper for physicians, Hormone Balancing Therapy (HBTx) - Why & How. This paper explains the need to manage menopause as we do other permanent hormone deficiencies. It also provides the nitty-gritty, "cookbook" level details of how to do so using HBTx, the protocol I have used for over 20 years to successfully treat thousands of menopausal women, such as what tests to order and starting dosages. To download a copy of this letter, go to www.menopausepower.com/letter .

We are in this together!

I want you to know, as you help pioneer this vitally important transformation in the management of women's health, I am right there with you. And, I am depending on you to do what it takes to have your menopause managed the way you think it should be, and to encourage other women to become educated and empowered to do the same.

I know that, together, we can ensure that our daughters and their daughters don't have to be pioneers - they can just be taken care of safely and effectively!

It's time!

To your health and happiness,

Diana Schwarzbein, MD

This Menopause Power Take Charge Guide is the companion to the Menopause Power course. Together, they give you the information you need to take charge of managing your menopause.

Taking charge of managing your menopause requires that you work effectively with your doctor. It isn't something you can do on your own. You need a doctor with whom you can work as a partner, one who will listen to and respect your knowledge, opinions, and feelings.

The first order of business is to determine whether, when it comes to managing menopause, you and your physician are philosophically aligned, and, if not, whether you can be.

Assuming you are on the same page philosophically, then you need to be able to clearly articulate what it is that you want your doctor to do - and not to do - how to treat your menopause by using bioidentical hormones in a bioequivalent manner.

Next, you need to know if what your doctor is advising and doing is correct, and what to do if it isn't.

Menopause Power lets you take an active, informed role in making decisions about how to manage your menopause.