Episode Five: Show Notes
The Atlantic Article on Women in Menopause: Where are All the Books About Menopause? by Sarah Manguso
Book: Flash Count Diary: Menopause and the Vindication of Natural Life by Darcey Steinke
Menopausibilities website
Birth Control book: Beyond the Pill by Jolene Brighten
Natural Alternatives to Birth Control: https://www.floliving.com/how-to-transition-off-the-birth-control-pill/
https://www.floliving.com/natural-contraceptives/
https://www.floliving.com/the-benefits-of-the-copper-iud/
Family Planning App: FLO Living
Book suggestions about Menopause/Hormone Balance:
- The Wisdom of Menopause by Christianne Northrup, M.D.
- Hormone Balance Made Simple by John R. Lee, M.D.
- Any of the books by John R. Lee including:
- What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause
- What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PreMenopause
- What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life (w/ David Zava PhD.)
- The Cortisol Connection, by Shawn Talbott
- Adrenal Fatigue, The 21st Century Stress Syndrome by Jim Wilson, N.D., D.C.
- The Mood Cure by Julia Ross
- The Hormone Survival Guide to Perimenopause by by Nisha Jackson
- The Teenage Hormone Takeover by by Nisha Jackson
- Good and Mad by Rebecca Traitor
- The Change by Germaine Greer
- Dr. Lani’s No Nonsense Bone Health Guide by Lani Simpson, DC
- Woman Code by Alissa Vitti
- Awakening Athena by Kenna Stephenson
CHOIICE Study (Compounded Bioidentical Hormones: Immune, Inflammatory, and Cardiovascular Biomarker Effects)
Interview with Kenna Stephenson:
Hot Flashes and Night Sweats:
https://blog.zrtlab.com/heat-waves-hot-flashes-in-perimenopause
Estrogen Dominance:
- https://www.johnleemd.com/estrogen-dominance.html
- https://www.drnorthrup.com/estrogen-dominance/
- https://www.floliving.com/what-is-estrogen-dominance/
Brain Fog:
Erma Bombeck on menopause:
“I’m trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive will occur in the same week!”
Cinema Therapy:
- Documentary: Period. End of Sentence
- Movie: Mama Mia
- Television: Grace and Frankie