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Advance Praise
Menopause is indeed a time for a total life resetbody, mind, and spirit. In this book you will find useful, well-researched, and very effective tools for doing just that.
Christiane Northrup, M.D.
New York Times best-selling author of Goddesses Never Age, The Wisdom of Menopause, and Womens Bodies, Womens Wisdom
Our goal with respect to hormones is to create a healthy physiology so we live a long, loving, active life. Dr. Mindys book The Menopause Reset has exactly the right tools to make this happen. She educates on how to do keto, fasting, and diet to enhance hormones and smooth the menopausal transition. This book and her programs are exceptional, and are a must-read for every woman who is perimenopausal, in menopause, and postmenopausal.
Anna Cabeca, D.O.
Bestselling author of The Hormone Fix and Keto-Green 16
As a doctor and researcher, this book offers some powerful and simple insights into understanding the basic biology of menopause, but more importantly, as a woman starting to forge her own journey into these transformational years, I found The Menopause Reset to be spot on with what I have learned for myself and thousands of women over decades of practice. Dr. Pelz provides a new hopeful narrative, expectation and outcome for millions of women globally. Dr. Pelz is one of the few colleagues I have met who is all about MASTERING, not medicating your hormones as you shift from a time of being a care giver to self care seeker. She reminds us that suffering is NOT normal and that symptoms are simply a call for help. Thank you, Dr. Pelz, for being an empowered voice and leader helping the millions of women already through the doorway of menopause and welcoming those to come. This will be a must read for all of the women in my life.
Dr. Nasha Winters, N.D.
Author of The Metabolic Approach To Cancer
Lets be real. The decline in hormones can leave you feeling like youre on an emotional roller coaster. Dr. Mindy lays out some great steps in her book women should follow if they are in perimenopause or menopause!
Dr. Carrie Jones, Medical Director for the DUTCH test
Dr. Mindy Pelz is a pioneer for womens health. Her pain-to-purpose story has inspired many around the world, including myself. The information in this book is unlike anything youve come across before, and it will change your life. What I love most about Dr. Mindy is her commitment to research the root cause of health. Dr. Mindy possesses a rare energy, and a unique gift for breaking down the complex into bite-sized nuggets; which leak out of the pages of this book. Im blessed to work closely with Dr. Mindy, and see firsthand the impact she continues to make in this world.
Ben Azadi, FDN-P
Founder of Keto Kamp
Never have I met a woman so dedicated to empowering and helping the world. Dr. Mindys passion for health and getting information out to all those in need is prevalent in this book. She is a mentor, a friend, and a force that is going to help shift the health paradigm.
Dr. Sonya Jensen, N.D.
Founder of Divine Elements-Naturopathic Family Wellness and cohost of The Women N Wellness Podcast
The Menopause Reset is an extremely relevant book that all women need to read. Dr. Mindy Pelz offers a valuable guide to ditching the symptoms so that you can feel like yourself again. She puts the power back in your hands, which is more important today than ever before.
Dr. Caitlin Czezowski, D.C., CFMP, CACCP
Founder of The Dental Detox and cohost of The Women N Wellness Podcast
Dedicated to the three people who matter to me most in this world: my husband and kids, Sequoia, Bodhi, and Paxton.
Thank you for always being in my front row, cheering me on and loving me through my menopausal madness.
I love doing life with you!
Contents
Foreword
For those of you who dont feel well, cant lose weight, and yet would say, I have tried everything, let me give you hope. You are not alone, and believe it or not, there is something you havent done yet get to the cause.
I have a saying that was true in my life and now in millions of others': If you fix the cell, you will get well. The reason you still dont feel well and its harder to lose weight or even stick with a diet is that its a hormone problem. However, the cause of this problem is, in fact, your cells. I have taught thousands of doctors from around the world this simple concept and there is now a growing group of us resonating this message. It seems so simple and yet not enough are asking, much less searching to understand what that actually means and how to do it.
Dr. Mindy Pelz has made it so simple for you to do in The Menopause Reset . You will learn in such a clear and simple way how to fix your cells and get your life back. I have been blessed to teach a concept for many years referred to as the Pompa Protocol, which is a multi-therapeutic approach to fixing the cells and ultimately your hormone problems. Fasting, feast famine cycling, diet variation, and cellular detox are all part of this cellular solution you are about to learn.
Dr. Mindy has taken this life-changing message to so many who I could have never reached and for that I am forever grateful. She suffered from the typical menopause and perimenopausal symptoms that so many women deal with today. Her authority comes from this. She can speak to it from her own battle and take what I have taught to another level of understanding. She has done just that in this book.
From pain to purpose has been my mantra for many years because all I teach has come out of my own story from an unexplainable illness; however, I was not a woman struggling in menopause. I suffered from the typical to the bizarre. It started like most do with fatigue, anxiety, and brain fog. It then progressed to insomnia, sensitive to every food, chemical, or the ability to deal with even normal stress. I couldnt even handle loud noise and crying kids. My thyroid was not right because my hair was thinning. I was constipated. I became skinny-fat and my energy was gone, yet my blood work was still normal. My adrenal glands were fried, as well. I couldnt even deal with the stress of picking out a shirt for the day. Seriously, it would make me anxious and overwhelmed. I, like most people with these symptoms, tried many treatments for both my thyroid, adrenals, and other hormones, but all of it was too far downstream to where the real problem was. How did I, Dr. Mindy, and now millions of others get our lives back? We determined the upstream cause and fixed our cells using these strategies.