Very informative. I was trying to be a supportive partner for my wife who has been suffering from Menopause for 5 years. She thaought it was dumb of me. Oh well. Just trying to ease her pain.

This important book has been around for a while and now it's been updated! What a treasure. Every woman should read this. The information is valuable and usable. I highly recommend it. Pamela D. Blair, Author The Next Fifty Years: A Guide for Women at Mid-Life And Beyond

Dr. Susan Love's Menopause and Hormone Book: Making Informed Choices

Let me first start by saying I'm a man.(and what a man, WOW:-) So what does a man know about menopause? And why would a man review a book based on menopause? Both valid questions. I know little on menopause, but I know Dr. Love. Dr. Love is co-founder of LLuminari and serves on the company's board of directors. She is one of the founding mothers of the breaast cancer advocacy movement Dr. Love continues her work by serving on the boards of the National Breaast Cancer Coalition and the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation. Her primary research interests focus on normal breaast anatomy and breaast duct fluid as well as hormones and breaast cancer. Dr Susan Love's research has been termed the bible for women by the New York Times. Dr. Love lectures nationally and internationally on breaast cancer, menopause, and women's health.
Her Degrees:
* B.S., Fordham University
* M.D., SUNY health Center
* M.B.A., UCLA's Anderson School of Business
Her affiliations:
* Co-Founder and Board Member LLuminari, Inc.
* Clinical Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA
* President and health Director, Dr. Susan Love Research
Foundation
* Director, Sanarus health Inc.
* Founder and Director, National Breaast Cancer Coalition
* Board Member, Y-ME National Breaast Cancer Organization
* Director, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
* Presidential Appointee, National Cancer Advisory Board
* Chair, Subcommittee on Communications, NACB
* Member, National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences
Council, Breaast Cancer and The Environment Working
Group, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH
* Founder, ProDuct Health, Inc.
* Consultant, Cytyc Health Corp.
* Advisory Board Member, PepsiCo, PacifiCare, Dover
health Ventures
Her Awards:
* Excellence in Cancer Awareness Award, Congressional
Families for Cancer Awareness, 2002
* Alumni Achievement Award, SUNY College of Medicine,
1999
* Spirit of Achievement Award, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1995
* Women of Distinction, National Council on the Aging, 1994
* Women Who Have Made a Difference, International
Women's Forum, 1991.

There is NO other who can even stand close to the wondrous achievements by this remarkable woman. She has dedicated her life to survival and hope.

Let me first start by saying I'm a man.(and what a man, WOW:-) So what does a man know about menopause? And why would a man review a book based on menopause? Both valid questions. I know little on menopause, but I know Dr. Love.

Dr. Love is co-founder of LLuminari and serves on the company's board of directors. She is one of the founding mothers of the breaast cancer advocacy movement Dr. Love continues her work by serving on the boards of the National Breaast Cancer Coalition and the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation. Her primary research interests focus on normal breaast anatomy and breaast duct fluid as well as hormones and breaast cancer. Dr Susan Love's research has been termed the bible for women by the New York Times. Dr. Love lectures nationally and internationally on breaast cancer, menopause, and women's health.
Her Degrees:
* B.S., Fordham University
* M.D., SUNY health Center
* M.B.A., UCLA's Anderson School of Business
Her affiliations:
* Co-Founder and Board Member LLuminari, Inc.
* Clinical Professor of Surgery, David Geffen School of
Medicine at UCLA
* President and health Director, Dr. Susan Love Research
Foundation
* Director, Sanarus health Inc.
* Founder and Director, National Breaast Cancer Coalition
* Board Member, Y-ME National Breaast Cancer Organization
* Director, Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
* Presidential Appointee, National Cancer Advisory Board
* Chair, Subcommittee on Communications, NACB
* Member, National Advisory Environmental Health Sciences
Council, Breaast Cancer and The Environment Working
Group, Institute of Environmental Health Sciences/NIH
* Founder, ProDuct Health, Inc.
* Consultant, Cytyc Health Corp.
* Advisory Board Member, PepsiCo, PacifiCare, Dover
health Ventures
Her Awards:
* Excellence in Cancer Awareness Award, Congressional
Families for Cancer Awareness, 2002
* Alumni Achievement Award, SUNY College of Medicine,
1999
* Spirit of Achievement Award, Albert Einstein College of
Medicine of Yeshiva University, 1995
* Women of Distinction, National Council on the Aging, 1994
* Women Who Have Made a Difference, International
Women's Forum, 1991.

There is NO other who can even stand close to the wondrous achievements by this remarkable woman. She has dedicated her life to survival and hope.

The most practical, informative, and entertaining (I'm not kidding) book I've found on perimenopause and menopause. Dr. Love tells you what you may (or may not) experience, without committing a "one-experience-fits-all" blunder. I enjoy her social commentary regarding American attitudes toward women, aging, and aging women. It's especially helpful to me as I near this second puberty.

Women and men of all ages would probably benefit from reading Chapter Two alone. The pharmaceutical companies are not (necessarily) your friends.

Good stuff.

So far so good. Very believeable and understandable. makes good sense. I'm not even 1/2 way thru book yet. I was not happy though with the construction of the book. Some of the pages are falling out because they were not glued in right.

This is a revision of Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book - which was updated and republished after the Prempro arm of the Women's Health Initiative was halted.

The best thing about this book is its perspective. Susan Love writes as a woman experiencing menopause. She's a doctor and serious researcher who insists on hard EVIDENCE, not just good theories. She's a doctor who feels a responsibility to her patients and readers, a responsibility to fully and accurately INFORM them, so that they can make their OWN choices. She's a researcher who knows how to analyze and re-analyze data. She is open minded.

This book sets out to inform women about menopause, its mechanisms, its symptoms, its accompaniments, and ALL the available treatment choices from positive thinking, to diet, to acupuncture, to herbs, to pharmaceuticals, to exercise, and everything in between. It includes information on what is and isn't known about each possible treatment, as well as the risks and benefits of each.

Dr. Love is not looking for "converts" to one side or the other of the "hormone wars," as so many menopause/hormone authors seem to be. She is not the sort of doctor who tells patients/readers what to do. She clearly feels that every woman should make her OWN choices, and that those choices will be different for each individual woman. While educating her readers, she is also good enough to state her own positions, so readers can factor in consideration of her personal prejudices. Yet, she clearly supports women's choices whether or not they are ones she would make herself. She asks only that those choices be based on understanding and knowledge.

The Prempro phase of the Women's Health Initiative was halted due to the serious side-effects of that drug. Susan Love largely predicted those results in the earlier editions of this book. She had the courage to stand-up to other doctors in a field which is not her specialty (she's a breast surgeon), and question the "evidence" upon which they relied for their theories and therapies. She stuck to her guns although she was severely criticized (and readily admitted when she herself was in error). Despite the fact that Dr. Love was widely vindicated by the Women's Health Initiative, she refrains from taking an "I told you so" position in this new edition that incorporates the Prempro findings of the WHI.

This book goes further than just informing. It goes into detail on just about every possible form of menopause therapy: eastern, western, new-age and old wives' tale. It also details virtually every variety of drug, every dosage, every form of administration, as well as the particulars of what actions specific medications, herbal and naturopathic remedies might have. Dr. Love educates us with whatever solid knowledge there is about each, and she gives us tools to help evaluate future data. She is a scientist whose mind is open to considering all possibilities. And, she's a woman who knows the menopause experience.