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“I am able to sleep during the night and the hot flashes are gone.”

Nicola is a seasoned marketing expert who started her own business three years ago. Fit and trim at 5'5” and 122 pounds, Nicola was accustomed to enjoying good health and professional success. Now age 52, her perimenopause symptoms began last fall with nighttime hot flashes. Realizing the need to avert irritability and fatigue to maintain her high level of functioning, a quick on-line search brought up our website: “Now that I’m on the Personal Program,” she told us, “I am able to sleep during the night and the hot flashes are gone.”

When talking again recently with Nicola, she shared in more detail: “At first, I was in denial. I started having unbelievable hot flashes and felt very warm on the inside. The sheets weren’t damp, but I would be extremely hot to the touch. My husband said it was like having his own little furnace in the bed with him. I was getting up every two hours and just feeling really out of it.

“I’m not really to the point where I need to be a candidate for HRT. I’d done a bit of research on natural relief for hot flashes, and my ob/gyn doctor advised black cohosh, but that was about it. So I searched my local pharmacy and found a combination menopause formula. I was taking one pill in the morning and one in the evening. It was supposed to contain black cohosh, but it sure wasn’t doing a thing for me. Then, as luck would have it, I found Women to Women’s website. I just plugged ‘Natural Remedies for Hot Flashes’ into the search engine, and up you came!

“I’ve started the Personal Program in November '05 and first noticed a difference in a little over two weeks. The minerals in the supplements helped diminish my nighttime flashes and allowed me to sleep through the night. That problem has nearly been eradicated — I don’t think I’ve had an episode since February.

“I also had increased irritability from not sleeping well. I just couldn’t handle it. The Program helped out quite a bit with that. My husband also noticed; these supplements have just been amazing. I’ve been telling all my friends and my doctor and everyone else.

“As for my only symptoms now, I’m sad to say I’m sometimes a little bit forgetful. I’m an A-type person, and I used to be able to keep a mental check-list of things to do and never had a problem with that. Now I write everything down. I have about 12–15 clients in various stages of deadlines and projects, and I keep my running list of what needs to be done. I’ve never missed a deadline or anything serious, but I will wake up at 3 o’clock in the morning from time to time, wondering about one thing or another. Then I remember I can relax, go to my list in the morning and take action then on whatever needs to be done.

“Not too many women I know talk about menopause, but if someone brings up the subject people start to open up. Two weeks ago I ran into another professional woman I met through networking and she said, ‘I found something that works.’ She had one of those battery-operated mini-fans on her desk. I told her I didn’t need one because I take Women to Women’s Essential Nutrients now, and she said, ‘Oh, I take those, too! Aren’t they wonderful?’

“I always tell the nurse practitioner at my ob/gyn’s office to get other women on the Personal Program. I’m a big advocate for these nutritional supplements. My monthly delivery got goofed up once, and maybe it was psychological but I was just beside myself. I’d only gone a few days without my Nutrients, but I noticed a difference right away. The advisors were great with support, and I recognized that I’ve got to stay on my Program. I like the easy packets, the cost, and the credibility — helping a person’s health is excellent.”

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Last Modified Date: 05/24/2011