Menopause Bondage: Is There A Way Out?

Menopause Bondage provides an in-depth look at women’s overall health and quality of life and the major role estrogen plays during their lifetime. Specifically, women are shown what really happens when their estrogen levels begin to deplete (as early as their 30s) and how vital estrogen is to many areas of health.

Knowledge Check: How many questions can you answer?

Category 1: Important women’s health issues

• What is the number one cause of death among women?
• Does estrogen have any impact on women’s heart disease?
• Can estrogen avoidance among women who have undergone a hysterectomy result in death?
• Does estrogen have any impact on a woman’s blood vessels?
• List the major areas of a woman’s body that are impacted by estrogen.
• Does estrogen cause breast cancer and what are the two types of breast cancer?
• Does a woman’s risk of getting female-related cancers increase with age?
• Does estrogen have any impact on a woman’s brain or her cognition?
• Does estrogen affect a woman’s bones and, if so, when does it begin?
• Are a woman’s skin, hair and eyes affected by estrogen?
• Does estrogen affect a woman’s weight gain?

Category 2: Menopause and related issues

• All women are in one of four estrogen-related groups, which group are you in?
• Are birth control users included in any one of those four groups?
• Which bio-identical hormones are not FDA approved?
• Is it possible for a woman to avoid the menopause process?
• What age is a female at her maximum health?
• Is that time period with or without estrogen?
• When was estrogen approved by the FDA and put into the marketplace?
• At what age does a woman’s estrogen level begin to decline?
• What is the average age of menopause?
• How many negative medical consequences are related to estrogen deficiency?
• Does menopause impact the quality of life of women?

Category 3: Estrogen studies

How many negative alerts were posted concerning estrogen use prior to the Women’s Health Initiative (WHI) study conducted in 2002?
What was the average age of the participants in the WHI study and did that age negatively influence the results?
Were the results that were announced to the public accurate or were they reanalyzed at a later date with different results?
Do estrogen studies contradict each other or are they consistent in their findings?
Which studies should women believe – those performed in a clinical environment or a study of women who have lived the estrogen life?

Conclusion: You make the decision

• Would answers to any of these questions be something you would want to know before you reach menopause or before your health begins to decline?
• Would these questions contain issues you would want to discuss with your doctor?
• Would the information in this book be important enough to discuss with your spouse, significant other, relatives and/or close friends?