Women’s stories
Giving your body what it needs
As a career nurse, Beatrice had witnessed other women’s health decline in menopause and wondered why. At age 50 she herself began experiencing heavy bleeding, cramping, leg pain and trouble sleeping, and felt as though her body was turning on itself. After some reading she realized these were symptoms of hormonal imbalance in perimenopause. Now on the Personal Program, here’s how Bea knows she’s giving her body what it needs.
“As a nurse, I’d always questioned why our bodies appear to turn against us in menopause. I’d watched my grandmother and my mother, and it just seemed to me like the body stops producing something it needs. Now I realize that it may turn on itself, but only if you let it.
“My story started with excessive bleeding and painful cramping, every single month. My doctor was giving me injections of Depo-Lupron to put me into menopause, but then she stopped these because of the risk of osteoporosis. I was having trouble sleeping because of these terrible pains in my legs. They’d keep me up most of the night, which led me to exhaustion. Everything I had to do became a huge chore. I was constantly run down.
“My sister kept telling me about Women to Women. She swore by the Essential Nutrients, and I figured it was some kind of fad. Then a friend of mine who is into holistic healing gave me Dr. Northrup’s book, Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom. I was dumbfounded by the menopause section in that book. I thought, ‘Oh my word, this is me!’
“I decided to try the Personal Program, and within two weeks I noticed a difference. I was digesting my food well, sleeping through the night, and free of leg pain. The difference was like night and day. I not only feel human again, but I feel like my young self.
“Your Nutritional Guidelines have definitely changed the way I eat. I have increased my protein, watch my simple carbs, and don’t eat anything that’s processed. If it says ‘hydrogenated’ or ‘partially hydrogenated,’ it does not come into this house. I kept telling myself, ‘Bea, this is a lifestyle change. These choices will follow you for the rest of your life.’ I really believe that what you put in your body is what makes you up. My body won’t turn on itself if I give it what it needs.
“Women to Women is always there if you have a question. I called to ask a question, and the nurse called me back within a couple of hours. You feel like someone will listen if you need them, and that these women really care. Just like my sister, I now swear by your Essential Nutrients! If I go a day without taking them, I feel it. (And so does my husband!)”
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Original Publication Date:09/24/2007
Last Modified: 02/19/2008