The New Menopause: Navigating Your Path Through Hormonal Change with Purpose, Power, and Facts

The New Menopause should be read by every woman. Not only does the book explain the changes we experience in an easy to understand way, it validates all the symptoms and feelings we have as peri and post menopausal women. The book helps give women a voice to advocate and make better decisions for ourselves. It allowed me to make the decisions I needed to make to get my life back. Love this book and highly recommend it.

Very useful, easy read about what to expect, how to converse with doctors, and get more information. Excellent read for those entering or in menopause…and FYI perimenopause can be several years prior to the actual date your period stops.

A must-read for women, this book provides excellent explanations of the myriad of perimemopause and menopause symptoms we experience and of evidence based treatment options.

This is an amazing, eye-opening, life-changing read that should be mandatory for every adult woman, every healthcare provider that sees adult women, and anyone who cares at all about women.Dr. Haver has a great talent and voice for presenting complex ideas in simple, layman-accessible ways.I feel seen and understood, respected and believed. The book is like having the conversation(s) we need and deserve, with the doctor telling us exactly what we need to know, providing practical solutions and alternatives, and exploring questions we didn't even know we needed to ask.Highly, highly recommend and urge every middle-aged woman to read this book. It is absolutely worth the time and thought.

This book has great information on HRT options for women in menopause, which I really appreciated. Not enough doctors know how to treat women who are suffering through menopause, so this book is an important tool for many women out there who have not found help through the conventional medical approach to menopause. I congratulate the author for her wonderful work, and for bringing this information to light.That said - she lost a bit of credibility in my eyes when she stated that things like subclinical hypothyroidism is rare, as are vitamin deficiencies, and that functional medicine doctors only treat women for things like toxins and infections to balance their hormones. Well, the truth is, hormone imbalances are due to toxins and infections, as well as menopause.And, Hypothyroidism is not rare, it's extremely common and it contributes to symptoms of menopause. So detoxifying the body and treating hypothyroidism and adrenal fatigue (since the adrenals take over hormone production when the ovaries stop producing hormones) - are integral components of recovery in my mind. Along with hormone replacement therapy, of course.I've authored, co-authored, or ghostwritten over 20 medical books, and I feel that a bit more of a comprehensive approach than what is mentioned in this book is warranted, such as attention to the hormones that are not directly involved in menopause, but which can influence menopausal symptoms (by the way, thyroid labs are inaccurate much of the time because they don't reveal what the cells are using, only what's in the blood). A few herbs or an anti-depressant are not the best solutions for depression and anxiety, and eating a diet containing whole grains will not help you to lose weight.Still, the author's information on sex hormone replacement is very good, but I feel that she needs to understand other aspects of integrative and functional medicine better - such as the relationship between adrenal steroid and thyroid hormones and menopause, and other things that are making people's hormones imbalanced these days - before making claims that vitamin deficiencies are rare or that detoxification doesn't help the body to heal. It makes me wonder if she has been influenced by Big Pharma, which rejects anything alternative in medicine, or her publisher (as my experience has been that large publishers are afraid to publish anything that goes against the conventional medical establishment's agenda).In nations where environmental toxicity is not so much of a problem, menopausal symptoms are rare. So removing toxins is important as well, because toxins block and damage hormone receptors on cells, skew hormone production, and cause inflammation that affects hormones, among many other things.

This book opened my eyes to many causes/symptoms of menopause. Most do not pertain to me, but it's great knowing about them just in case. I highly recommend this book to ALL women as it helps prepare for menopause and provides the knowledge needed to understand it better.

Dr. Mary Claire Haver saved my life. Without going into too much personal information, if you suffer from the effects of menopause in anyway, do yourself a favor a buy this book. Dr. Haver walks you through what you need to know and what you need do to seek out treatment from a competent menopause provider. The book is full of research that has been done regarding the human body and the affects of menopause. Dr. Haver lays it out in terms that everyone can understand. I read the entire book in almost one sitting. I also took it with my to my appointment with my certified menopause specialist. I'm so grateful to Dr. Haver for this book. Buy it, it's worth every penny!

A must read to become more informed about the transition into menopause and the options for this transition in life.