As a physician, I can tell you that Wiley's logic is poor, that her references to the scientific literature are often incorrect, and that she makes completely unfounded assumptions as to the safety of her method.

Further, I have treated about ten women who tried the Wiley protocol through other physicians and found it, after a few months, to be worse than useless.

This woman presents herself quite dangerously as a medical authority. Do not take this book seriously.

This could be one of the most important books you will ever read! I would suggest every woman read it, read it again and read it again until you understand it...it is quite complicated and in depth, but could help you save your own life...then take what you learn with you to your own Doctor and you will be quite shocked how little "they" know about "your" body. You will have to do the work here. When you discover the lies women have been told about everything from "biological clocks" to "menopause is just a natural stage we go through" you will be outraged! I will never again be the same after reading this book . That is how profoundly it has changed my life. Yes, some of the advice is very hard to follow in todays world, but at least you will be armed with the "truth" and nothing but good can come out of that...Please, please I implore every woman to read this book..when you actually get to menopause you will wish you had had this book years earlier. I cannot stress enough how it is not just for women in menopause, but for every female. This is what you always "knew in you gut" to be true. The depth of this work is mind blowing. We owe these people who did all this research a huge THANK YOU !!

While purporting to expose "the shocking truth about hormone replacement therapy," Sex, Lies, and Menopause is poorly written, even incoherent at times, and only adds to the confusion about HRT. The book is poorly researched, hard to read and contains glaring inaccuracies. In short, I found this book a real disappointment, especially during such a trying time in a woman's life.

Ladies....how many of your friends have been diagnosed with cancer...how many of your daughters take birth control pills...female cancer is an deadly epidemic and this book will tell you why it has happened and what to do.
Ms Wiley has written a great book on the overview of the BIG LIE that American medicine has (and still is) telling women.Any Dr who suggests synthetic hormones has NO CLUE and you need to RUN out of his/her office. Each woman has a different menopausal experience and if yours is not good then read Wiley's book and Dr Uzzi Reiss's book "Natural Hormone Balance for Women".
I had read over 20 books and knew I needed help, but had difficulty finding a Dr who was more interested in fixing my health than endangering it with HRT. If you want to find a Dr who can really help and prescribe just for your needs, contact the Women's International Pharmacy...go to Google and type it in...they are GREAT...they will send a list of physicians in your state who work with women to re-establish health and balance...women who have no problems with menopause have had low estrogen levels all their lives, so the loss is not as great and the symptoms are minimal.
Do yourself a favor....if you KNOW you are not yourself and are tired of feeling all the odd things menopause brings...take control of your health..find a proper Dr., do saliva tests,hair analysis,and blood tests and find out what is causing your problems! It is not an easy fix, but you will find out what your body needs to feel good again and not endanger your life...you can greatly improve the quality of your life and possibly save your daughters from real danger as they age as well. GOOD LUCK!

Ladies....how many of your friends have been diagnosed with cancer...how many of your daughters take birth control pills...female cancer is an deadly epidemic and this book will tell you why it has happened and what to do.
Ms Wiley has written a great book on the overview of the BIG LIE that American medicine has (and still is) telling women.Any Dr who suggests synthetic hormones has NO CLUE and you need to RUN out of his/her office. Each woman has a different menopausal experience and if yours is not good then read Wiley's book and Dr Uzzi Reiss's book "Natural Hormone Balance for Women".
I had read over 20 books and knew I needed help, but had difficulty finding a Dr who was more interested in fixing my health than endangering it with HRT. If you want to find a Dr who can really help and prescribe just for your needs, contact the Women's International Pharmacy...go to Google and type it in...they are GREAT...they will send a list of physicians in your state who work with women to re-establish health and balance...women who have no problems with menopause have had low estrogen levels all their lives, so the loss is not as great and the symptoms are minimal.
Do yourself a favor....if you KNOW you are not yourself and are tired of feeling all the odd things menopause brings...take control of your health..find a proper Dr., do saliva tests,hair analysis,and blood tests and find out what is causing your problems! It is not an easy fix, but you will find out what your body needs to feel good again and not endanger your life...you can greatly improve the quality of your life and possibly save your daughters from real danger as they age as well. GOOD LUCK!

Great book that helped me go for bioidentical hormones. I've now been on them six months and plan to say on them as I feel young and sexy. Before reading this I knew that the horse-derived pharmaceuticals were a problem. Wiley also let me know that diet changes using soy aren't the answer. I'd give this book 5 stars except for the weird chapter titles. Couldn't figure out what they meant. But otherwise the book is clear and makes its point well.

Great book that helped me go for bioidentical hormones. I've now been on them six months and plan to say on them as I feel young and sexy. Before reading this I knew that the horse-derived pharmaceuticals were a problem. Wiley also let me know that diet changes using soy aren't the answer. I'd give this book 5 stars except for the weird chapter titles. Couldn't figure out what they meant. But otherwise the book is clear and makes its point well.

Regardless of what your prior knowledge might have been on the subject of menopause, you will find this book extremely informative. It is a must read. Forget what you think you know about natural hormones - such as what can be bought online or at health food stores. This book goes beyond the courageous Dr. John Lee's books.
Most of what we know about hormones comes from the scientific and medical professions. But so much of the research is either based on incomplete or faulty information. Many conclusions and recomendations for treatment are based on this lack of information. In recent years we have all been on a roller coaster - one day hormones are on, and we must take more, the next day they cause cancer and need to be suppressed. It's enough to make your hair fall out! The Woman's Health Initiative has done some research that has again caused many to jump to conclusions. From those conclusions there have been some scary extrapolations. Most of the research on hormones was not done using bioidentical hormones. That means most of the hormones used were a synthesis of mare's urine. (Yes pregnant horse urine is what you are taking if you are using traditional synthetic hormones.)

In a nutshell this book asserts that hormones should be applied using not only natural bioidentical hormones, but applied in the exact way and amount that they are made in the body of a young,healthy reproductive woman.
The book also illustrates the connections between hormones and heart attacks cancer. Synthetic hormones probably cause cancer but the lack of hormones may cause heart attacks. Though there are other books on bioidentical hormones, such as Suzanne Somers new book "The Sexy Years", I do not know of one that advises their application in this manner or goes this far.
You may have many ideas about hormones and aging or you may have no information. This book tells you why no information on this subject can be deadly. There are so many implications involved in this kind of hormone replacement therapy; issues pertaining to our youth-crazed culture, sexuality, religion, spirituality and the authority of the medical and pharmaceutical professions. This book addresses all of them.

Susan Wiley has put together all of the relevant research on hormones and her honest look at the scientific and medical community is sobering. Yet she manages to maintain her sense of humor, which you will feel as you turn the pages. This is a brave book and all of the people involved should be applauded for putting their proffesional necks on the line. If you are in your twenties, if you are approaching menopause or past menopause, or if you have had a partial or full hysterectomy' or yep even if you are a man, this book is for you.

In the interedst of full disclosure
I am repeating this review from my website http://www.marlasapothecary.com
Since putting the review up on my site I found a homone specialist who was also excited about this book. I have now been on this protocol for a year. I feel great, I look great (At least I think so) , I would recommend it to anyone and I do.

Marla S Wilson holistic health care advocate.

Regardless of what your prior knowledge might have been on the subject of menopause, you will find this book extremely informative. It is a must read. Forget what you think you know about natural hormones - such as what can be bought online or at health food stores. This book goes beyond the courageous Dr. John Lee's books.
Most of what we know about hormones comes from the scientific and medical professions. But so much of the research is either based on incomplete or faulty information. Many conclusions and recomendations for treatment are based on this lack of information. In recent years we have all been on a roller coaster - one day hormones are on, and we must take more, the next day they cause cancer and need to be suppressed. It's enough to make your hair fall out! The Woman's Health Initiative has done some research that has again caused many to jump to conclusions. From those conclusions there have been some scary extrapolations. Most of the research on hormones was not done using bioidentical hormones. That means most of the hormones used were a synthesis of mare's urine. (Yes pregnant horse urine is what you are taking if you are using traditional synthetic hormones.)

In a nutshell this book asserts that hormones should be applied using not only natural bioidentical hormones, but applied in the exact way and amount that they are made in the body of a young,healthy reproductive woman.
The book also illustrates the connections between hormones and heart attacks cancer. Synthetic hormones probably cause cancer but the lack of hormones may cause heart attacks. Though there are other books on bioidentical hormones, such as Suzanne Somers new book "The Sexy Years", I do not know of one that advises their application in this manner or goes this far.
You may have many ideas about hormones and aging or you may have no information. This book tells you why no information on this subject can be deadly. There are so many implications involved in this kind of hormone replacement therapy; issues pertaining to our youth-crazed culture, sexuality, religion, spirituality and the authority of the medical and pharmaceutical professions. This book addresses all of them.

Susan Wiley has put together all of the relevant research on hormones and her honest look at the scientific and medical community is sobering. Yet she manages to maintain her sense of humor, which you will feel as you turn the pages. This is a brave book and all of the people involved should be applauded for putting their proffesional necks on the line. If you are in your twenties, if you are approaching menopause or past menopause, or if you have had a partial or full hysterectomy' or yep even if you are a man, this book is for you.

In the interedst of full disclosure
I am repeating this review from my website http://www.marlasapothecary.com
Since putting the review up on my site I found a homone specialist who was also excited about this book. I have now been on this protocol for a year. I feel great, I look great (At least I think so) , I would recommend it to anyone and I do.

Marla S Wilson holistic health care advocate.

My CNP told me to read this book (Sex, Lies and Menopause), and said we'd use its schedule (it's in an appendix at the end) for bioidentical HRT. It's a good place to start, but be careful about following it specifically without monitoring yourself. Dr. Uzzi Reiss's book, Natural Hormone Balance for Women, gives clear information about various hormones, and the symptoms of deficiency and oversupply, something that is completely omitted by Wiley et al.

I hope the authors' science is better than their history, sociology, and editing. I've found numerous instances where they contradict themselves and are flat wrong when they're describing women's social history.

I don't like the gimmicky old rock-n-roll song titles for their sections; it makes it hard to find information on a particular topic, and is a sneaky way of making you wade through their ranting to find the information you want.

And I really don't appreciate their assertions that their book is "about biology, not politics", when their explanations of our biology can't even be separated from their speculations and commentary on women's social history and the politics of women's place in society. The whole "Lies" section is more about politics than about biology! They assume that all doctors are either ignorant or in drug companies' pockets and will oppose you if you ask for their help in using bioidentical hormones, so you will just have to force them to do what you want, armed with the information and directions in their book. They make snide comments about the women's movement and feminists. And their recurring rant about drug companies and profits from drugs (and I'm no fan of drug companies!) make it sound like natural hormone therapy is free, which it is not!

To use another reviewer's phrase, it's hard to sieve the "pearls" out of the "muck". Hint: the most useful information is in chapter 10, "Satisfaction".

They do have some interesting ideas, and some things do make sense. But I know too many healthy, vigorous old ladies who didn't do any kind of HRT to completely accept their assertion that cancer is the inevitable result of menopause.

I'm afraid that if they are sloppy about their history and sociology (not to mention plain old word usage - e.g, effect/affect, choose/chose) they're also sloppy about their science.

Natural Hormone Balance for Women has much clearer information about biology - the effects of various hormones- and how to use bioidentical hormones, with none of the political claptrap Wiley and company offer.

As someone who believes in the superiority of bioidentical hormones to oral PremPro, I was disappointed that this book was not able to make its case more convincingly. It is very poorly argued and referenced-- if you actually check the references, you will find many of them to have little to do with the point being made. Also, the authors criticize the medical establishment for leaping to the conclusion that all estrogen is evil-- but then they leap to many conclusions of their own.

The hypothesis of this book is intriguing-- that it's not estrogen per se that causes breast cancer, it's low-level estrogen without the proper peaking and cycling of estrogen and progesterone. This hypothesis deserves to be properly addressed by a scientifically rigorous author.

If you have enough scientific training to be able to separate the baby from the bathwater, then I would say go ahead and read this book-- it will stimulate a lot of thinking. But if you don't have scientific training, be aware that this is only a theory-- an intriguing theory, but still just a theory. Many of the references in the back are duplicates or not really relevant. Also, be aware that if you look around on the Internet you will find a group of people who have stopped using the doses recommended in this book because they found them to be way too high-- and one of the collaborators on the book says that he does not endorse the dosage levels in the book.

For more details, I recommend reading the previous review "There are pearls in the muck" and poking around a little on the Web. Let's hope for a more scientifically rigorous book about this subject in the near future.

As someone who believes in the superiority of bioidentical hormones to oral PremPro, I was disappointed that this book was not able to make its case more convincingly. It is very poorly argued and referenced-- if you actually check the references, you will find many of them to have little to do with the point being made. Also, the authors criticize the medical establishment for leaping to the conclusion that all estrogen is evil-- but then they leap to many conclusions of their own.

The hypothesis of this book is intriguing-- that it's not estrogen per se that causes breast cancer, it's low-level estrogen without the proper peaking and cycling of estrogen and progesterone. This hypothesis deserves to be properly addressed by a scientifically rigorous author.

If you have enough scientific training to be able to separate the baby from the bathwater, then I would say go ahead and read this book-- it will stimulate a lot of thinking. But if you don't have scientific training, be aware that this is only a theory-- an intriguing theory, but still just a theory. Many of the references in the back are duplicates or not really relevant. Also, be aware that if you look around on the Internet you will find a group of people who have stopped using the doses recommended in this book because they found them to be way too high-- and one of the collaborators on the book says that he does not endorse the dosage levels in the book.

For more details, I recommend reading the previous review "There are pearls in the muck" and poking around a little on the Web. Let's hope for a more scientifically rigorous book about this subject in the near future.

I picked up this book figuring it would be about menopause, HRT and the overuse of synthetic hormones. More than half of the book is devoted to encouraging woman to pop out their kids early. And, you had better have those kids. According to this book, if you don't give birth, you're destined to die of some form of cancer before you hit old age. Geez, what a 'positive' book. Since I'm childless and will remain so, this book is useless. I think I'll simply eat right, exercise, and avoid books like these.

Many women, even in their 20s and 30s, are experiencing health problems related to hormonal imbalance. These include adrenal exhaustion, endometriosis, thyroid problems, mood swings, depression, etc..

I never saw the hormone connection to all this until I myself was diagnosed with breast cancer in my early 40s and started to research ways to return to health. I started the Wiley protocol and have chosen to balance my hormones rather than go with invasive forms of cancer treatment.

It's clear that cancer has a strong hormonal component. Instead of attacking my body's estrogen production with hormone blockers and aromatase inhibitors, and I am so grateful to have found the Wiley protocol to replace hormones according to a natural monthly cycle. Thank you, T. S. Wiley, for bringing this well-researched and fun-to-read book which introduces something I've not seen elsewhere: how to replace hormones in a natural cycle.

I've bought copies of "Sex, Lies and Menopause" for every oncologist I know.

I am a professional science writer. Time and again as I read this book, I marveled at how brilliantly the science was explained. This book is in the first tier of all books that translate complex scientific information so that a non-specialist can understand. If it shines in that general category, it is incandescent in the narrower category of books addressing menopause and related hormonal issues. It's "the" book against which all others on the subject should be judged because it is so very good, so very provocative. Its central argument favors bioidentical hormone replacement in a dosage pattern mimicking the hormonal cycles of young women. Even if the reader does not agree with that point of view, the book is a treasure trove of information vital to the biological life and, even more crucially, death of women in the developed world. If it has a flaw, it is the use of "menopause" in the title, which could restrict its readership to those over 40. This is a book for all women who need to know how their decisions with respect to pregnancy and lactation may relate to the when and the way of their dying.

After trying a natural approach to Menopause symptoms (didn't work) then trying traditional physician recommended HRT(worked a short while) then going back to heavier doses of natural substances(black cohosh, wild yam, bla bla bla) which alleviated symptoms greatly, I was still confused and scared of cancer possibilities. This book exposes the manipulation of studies funded by Drug companies to get results they want to profit from HRT that harms more than it helps. It will inform you, educate you, and rid you of the fears that estrogen and progesterone promote cancer ( they do in conventional HRT, hormones not identical to your physiology) This book gave me hope that aging is not a possible early death sentence, my waist is not destined to hopelessly expand no matter how much I diet and excersise, and that my cognitive abilities are not a thing of the past, I really can remember that I put my car keys in the Fridge. It's all about natural beta-17 estrogen(like you use to produce) and natural(USP) progesterone . The reason they're not perscribed to you is because they are natural, and therefore can't be patented, ergo, no money for the Big Drug Co.s. This book ties in your body as an entire organism, and explains how hormones have to be in sync to keep you healthy. When your hormones are in sync, heart disease, brain disease(Alzheimers) and other ills of "old Age" can be greatly reduced. If you want to take charge of your own health, read this book!