All my questions on Menopause have been answered. This book is a must have, it has really enlighten me on so many female issues.

Thank you.

It is a glorious time to be a woman coming into her own and Christina Northrup is showing us the way with this great new book. Excellent references and big wake up call to be the beautiful sexy spontaneous powerful feminine we have waited for our whole life. Bravo!

I wanted to like this book, I really did. But I found it lacking in many ways. There just wasn't a lot of good information that I didn't already know, and in some sections it just wasn't clear. I didn't come away from it with a feeling that I had learned much that was new or exciting. I know this isn't what I expected, because the book is advertised as a "breakthrough" but it certainly was not a breakthrough for me. I thought the author was just re-hashing old information from her previous books which were more informative than this one. I'm sorry to say, but I just wouldn't waste your time or money on this book. Overall, I just feel that she didn't put a lot into this book and it is disappointing. Normally I don't write negative reviews, but I have to agree with some of the other writers who say that this book is a letdown.

The Secret Pleasures of Menopause is different from Dr. Northrup's last three manifestos: Wisdom of Menopause, Women's Bodies and Mother-Daughter Wisdom....which, by the way, are all great reference books for women. This new book weighs in at just 166 pages but is packed with a plethora of information for women of all ages. In a nut shell, this book is a prescription for expressing positive sexuality during menopause...thus the title The Secret Pleasures of Menopause. I admire Dr. Northrup for laying out a direct "plan of action" for self-cultivation. As a woman in perimenopause I found the book uplifting and relevant and quite frankly even younger women could learn a thing or two from this book. Great read!

This book is awful. It is a long-drawn out yawner filled with new age crappola. If I'd wanted to find my chakra, I would have bought a different kind of book, not this one with its misleading title. This book is an insult to menopausal women who have legitimate medical questions about the topic and for whom there are no answers whatsoever in this book. In giving it a one-star rating, I'm being generous.

This book has my vote as a must read for woman of ANY age as it sets them up for a juicy post 50-something life and debunks old ways of thinking about the second half of life. Dr. Northrup skillfully blends her depth of medical knowledge with her vision of creating ways to access a life of pleasure-filled sexuality. If you want to stay stuck in old dried up ways of thinking about a glorious part of life, then you won't enjoy it. If you seek pleasure, you will love this book.

This book has my vote as a must read for woman of ANY age as it sets them up for a juicy post 50-something life and debunks old ways of thinking about the second half of life. Dr. Northrup skillfully blends her depth of medical knowledge with her vision of creating ways to access a life of pleasure-filled sexuality. If you want to stay stuck in old dried up ways of thinking about a glorious part of life, then you won't enjoy it. If you seek pleasure, you will love this book.

I found this book a great change from Dr. Northrup's other books, which I have read over and over again. It took me reading this one twice to see its magnificence. It combines ancient simple philosophy with modern science to transform our bodies at the deepest level via our chemistry and biology all done through positive thinking! Dr. Nothrup teamed up with the Noble Prize winning M.D, Dr. Murad and Dr. Edward A. Taub, using their biological theory of the free radical gas in our bodies called Nitric Oxide and how it can transform us on an upward cycle by focusing on pleasure and positive life force energy to create more and more nitric oxide. This is a very healthy free radical just as there is good and bad cholesterol. I found this simple yet profound book exactly what I needed to here. We all do tend to favor negative energy and compete for who has it the hardest, which is destroying our health by depleting our nitric oxide levels. By focusing on the positive and learning to love and accept ourselves we can transform our lives with an abundance of powerful good feelings, joy and hope. It's a new approach to the power of positive thinking with science by Medical Doctors, who won a Nobel Prize for their efforts, to back it up!

I feel very empowered to acheive optimal health through these new theories. I already eat with nutritional excellent from the book, "Eat To Live" by Joel Furham, M.D. and I am at my ideal weight. I exericise a lot and take many suppilmental vitamins and yet I have high blood pressure and suffer from anxiety. Just after reading this book and finding faith in it's words, I feel so much better and I even got my sex-drive back! This is a short easy book to read and I highly recommend it to everyone, not just women.

I loved "The Wisdom of Menopause" by Christiane Northrup but "The Secret Pleasures of Menopause" was rather dull and uninspiring. Dr. Northrup comes off as a bit flaky in this book. In my view, she's gone from respected doctor to new-age guru.

I am perplexed by Northrop's book. In chapter 2, she claims that prolactin is "the hormone of bonding" and that it "makes you feel bonded to the person (or people) you're interacting with at the time." My husband and I have been tracking research on the hormones related to mating neurochemistry for years. Researchers agree that oxytocin, not prolactin, is the "bonding hormone."

We think Northrop's right that the pleasurable feelings from connecting with others are very healthful, but oxytocin, not prolactin, is probably the reason. Indeed, prolactin (which rises after orgasm in both men and woman) may be more closely related to unpleasant mood swings. For example, men with high prolactin levels sometimes report low libido, headaches, erectile dysfunction, and anxiety. Women report similar symptoms. In one study, three quarters of women with unexplained high prolactin levels were suffering from depression, anxiety, and hostility.

This brings me to Northrop's indirect suggestion that masturbation is an ideal source of good feelings for women because of the short-term changes it produces in the body (endorphins and nitric oxide). Unfortunately, masturbation doesn't connect us with others. It's a solo performance. And, although sexologists aren't yet acknowledging it, there seem to be very real differences between masturbation and intercourse. The two are not interchangeable. Consider this woman's experience:

"It has been a year since my husband's death and I decided to see if I was still capable of orgasm. (My husband was very sick for several years before his death, so it has been a while.) The very next morning I woke up slightly depressed. Each night I masturbated again, trying to shorten the time to climax. Each morning I woke up a bit more depressed. After a couple of weeks of this I made the connection, and stopped. The depression is now completely gone, but I'm still horny from all that masturbating. (I wasn't at all horny before starting to masturbate.) I think that climaxing with a loved one is very different from climaxing with empty lips and vagina."

Her experience has actually been borne out by research that links women's masturbation with greater depression and relationship dissatisfaction--as well as less physical pleasure. In other words, those who masturbated more, showed more depression and dissatisfaction. It would be nice if orgasm were indeed a cure all, but if it were, heavy porn users would be the happiest people on the planet, and men would have been outliving women for centuries instead of the reverse.

I'm a Northrup fan because of her classic, The Wisdom of Menopause, which is a truly useful and amazingly thorough book - - and because Northrup has women's best interests at heart. However, this book was a disappointment. it's well written ... but just a "yawn" to quote another reviewer. I bought it on name recognition. If a newcomer to the women's health and wellness scene had written this book, I have my doubts it would have been published. Hay House, I'm disappointed. Having said all of this ... the book is a light and quick (very light, very quick) read, and Northrup does give women permission to feel good. I suppose some women will find that liberating. Having given myself this permission long ago, the book didn't live up to my expectations.

Many women actually look forward to menopause. If you are healthy, and continue to do the things that make you healthy, menopause is not difficult to manage. The kids have left the nest, you may be a widow or divorced, and possibly retired or close to it. So, what are you going to do now? To answer that question, buy this book along with another winner: Baby Boomer Bachelorette: How to Have Sex at Least Once More Before You Die. Learn the art of starting over and loving every minute of it!

The book is full of self help tips that are actually beneficial to women of all age groups. Honestly, I wish I would have read this book ten years ago. "The Secret Pleasures of Menopause" is rich with advice that helps women embrace their femininity from a mind/body/spirit perspective.

The book is well rounded, full of positive affirmations, provides a vast array of diet and lifestyle tips, and explains how to optimize your body's own production of nitric oxide, a biochemical made infamous by the Viagra industry.

Chris Northrup has been around this track before. Not much new in this book, and more than a little boring for those of us who navigated menopause largely unscathed or already knew about its pleasures long ago. Midlife is a great time of life for many women---and men---who have had a lovely time raising our children and establishing our careers but are now ready to stand back from the front of the stage and let others take our place while we go off to play at something new, volunteer for some worthwhile project or make a difference in a far-away place.

Those are the post-menopausal women I look to with respect. With all due credit to Chris Northrup's success, she has made a lucrative business out of pathologizing the wonder and awe of being a woman in mid-life and mid-stride.

Dr. Northrup has again tried to dupe women by writing another book full of garbage. Many women suffer through menopause with serious debilitating symptoms and need medical help. They also have many personal and financial problems at this stage of life that causes much stress. Thay don't need some one telling them how wonderful menopause is if they will only buy my book. Dr Northrup believes in psychics, astrolgy, tarrot cards, and angels not hard science. Her website will only give out complete information on a subject in her monthly article if you sign up for a yearly subscription for $48. In these dire economic times, do not waste your money on products by this quack and husckster.

Just last evening my book arrived, UPS! Wondering about the new words of wisdom, I had heard from Dr Northrup, in a parking lot so many months ago. "Dr Northrup, please write a book about relationships, Women and Men, please, we need that book, all of us!" A small book, 168 pages, "BIG" ideas, thoughts, direction, wonderment. Written along with three Men, as a Man (me) brought my thinking into yet another much needed area of my own life! "Menopause," men? Well, if I might, Women please have the Men in your life read this "GREAT" book. Reading through the pages I drifted from a book about "Menopause" into life's learning, yet again! Yes I did learn something about the Women who have been in my life, as I did from "Mother-Daughter Wisdom," Dr Northrup. Through the pages Dr Northrup speaks about her own thoughts, her wonderment about her life, changes she made, for happiness. Will I ever forget the words, "Nitric Oxide,"nope!!!
This book is a win-win, as we say in business, for all Women and all Men, together!