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Editorial Reviews  From the Publisher  Ann Louise Gittleman, PhD, CNS, is a top nutritionist internationally recognized as a pioneer in her industry. She is an award-winning New York Times bestselling author of more than 30 books on health topics including diet, detox, women's health, men's health, perimenopause, menopause, beauty and the environment.   From the Back Cover  The Fat Flush Plan was one of the earliest popular diet books to incorporate the concept of detoxification as one of the elements of a healthy diet... It's easy to see how Gittleman got the nickname 'The First Lady of Nutrition'. She was certainly one of the first to buck the low-fat establishment. 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Simply see what she is saying NOW! ?Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction  Ann Louise Gittleman has been a leading innovator in the field of integrative medicine for decades. Her books bring cutting-edge research to health consumers in an easy-to-understand form. She was one of the first to warn of the dangers of our infatuation with low-carb diets, and now science has validated her message. ?Ronald Hoffman, MD, Host of Intelligent Medicine   A long-time guiding light in the world of nutritional medicine, Ann Louise continues to be The First Lady of Nutrition and someone I can always count on for the best information for my patients, my readers, and me... ?Hyla Cass, MD, author of Supplement Your Prescription  From Fat Flush to detox, Ann Louise Gittleman is a trailblazer whose impeccable, groundbreaking research and knowledge paved the path for nutritionists today. As she has for the past few decades, Gittleman continues to inspire, motivate, and challenge me today. ?JJ Virgin, Celebrity Nutritionist and Author of The Sugar Impact Diet  Ann Louise's Fat Flush Plan is dietary common sense for all the right reasons?it's balanced, it's a program you can safely stay on for life, and it works. ?Dr. Barry Sears, author of The Zone  If nutrition has glamour, she's got it! ?The late Robert C. Atkins, MD, author of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution  Ann Louise Gittleman has demonstrated extraordinary leadership when it comes to reporting on the fundamental causes of illness and disease. Whether it's parasites in Guess What Came to Dinner? or environmental toxins in The Fat Flush Plan or toxic EMF or RF in Zapped, she reaches the hearts of the public by not only demonstrating what causes illness, but she also offers solutions on how to fix them! I'm proud to be one of her colleagues. ?Stephen Sinatra, MD, FACC, integrative cardiologist and coauthor of Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth  I have been privileged to know Ann Louise Gittleman for a number of decades and respect her dedication in assisting others to achieve vibrant health with nutrition and natural therapies. She is truly at the top of her field, deserving designation as 'The First Lady of Nutrition.' ?Jonathan V. Wright, MD, Medical Director, Tahoma Clinic, Tukwila, Washington  Ann Louise Gittleman is a dynamic pioneer and leading authority in nutrition, health, and wellness. She is a beacon of light and inspiration for millions of people who seek advanced healing information that genuinely transforms their lives. ?Anthony William, author of Medical Medium: Mystery \u0026amp; Chronic Illness and Life Changing Foods  Ann Louise Gittleman is to be commended for getting the detox message out to mainstream Americans. I couldn't agree more with her message and her methods. ?Elson M. Haas, MD, author of Staying Healthy with New Medicine  I have been a huge professional fan of hers for decades. We share a mutual passion as 'nutrition detectives' to find underlying root causes of disease and disharmony and a healthy respect for the emerging field of energy medicine. ?Nan Kathryn Fuchs, PhD, nutrition expert and author  Over the years, Ann Louise has always been at the forefront when it comes to nutrition for optimal health and weight loss. As a guest on my radio show, she frequently and generously shared her knowledge and cutting-edge advice with my listeners, answering their questions and discussing all aspects of healthy eating for both general health and healthy weight loss. I incorporated her Fat Flush Plan into my popular Fit Camps with successful results and was honored to coauthor The Fat Flush Fitness Plan. In a world where advice can be so questionable, Ann Louise continues to offer sound advice. ?Joanie Greggains, original star of TV's Morning Stretch; health and fitness educator  Ann Louise has always been one of my favorite go-to nutritionists. Her Fat Flush Plan and other programs, supplements, and test kits have paved the way for a whole new generation of health and environmentally like-minded advocates and activists. She is STILL a superstar in our changing world and we are all very grateful for her tireless efforts to bring the most cutting-edge wisdom to a world that desperately needs it. ?Donna Gates, author and creator of Body Ecology  When it comes to wellness through nutrition, Ann Louise Gittleman not only pioneered the field; she continues to be ahead of her time and on top of the game. At First for Women, we rely on Gittleman to alert us to the newest scientific studies with the most urgent relevance for our readers?and she always delivers. ?Carol Brooks, editor in chief of First for Women magazine  Ann Louise Gittleman has done us all a service by showing how the essential fats can and should be used in an overall program for living longer, losing weight, and reaching optimal health. ?Julian Whitaker, MD, Whitaker Wellness Institute  I recall interviewing her on the radio when I was just starting out in the field of nutritional medicine... I was terrified because she was so much more knowledgeable then I...So I read all her books and became even more impressed. She was one of the greats even back then. She continues to learn, explore, and best of all, get the message out to millions of adoring fans. ?Fred Pescatore, MD, Author of The Hamptons Diet  Ann Louise Gittleman is the real deal.  With her wealth of clinical experience and encyclopedic knowledge of nutrition and health she has been one of the great influences on my professional life and one of the first people I turn to when I want a 'second opinion. ?Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, Author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth     She is an original-a visionary in holistic nutrition. Ann Louise has always been ahead of them all and her insights have helped thousands! ?Frankie Boyer, Host of The Frankie Boyer Radio Show     Ann Louise Gittleman is an accomplished nutritionist, natural health educator and author with more insight into today's most prevalent health conditions than the typical MD. We need to be encouraging the leading voices in health, like Ann Louise Gittleman, who are the Paul Revere's of this generation... ?Camilla Rees, CEO of Wide Angle Health, LLC  Ann Louise Gittleman has been a colleague and hero of mine for years. She is a prolific and cutting-edge educator of nutrition and health. She walks her talk and is tireless in her delivery of information that shows you how to be healthier and happier. -Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson, Author of Safe Hormones, Smart Women  Ann Louise is a pioneer. She has paved the way for many to follow in her footsteps with her research, her knowledge and her consistent dedication to empower and teach this world about what to eat, how to support the body and how to shift the mind to have what she calls true health. I am blessed to know Ann Louise and her work and her books are ones I tell my students to buy because they need to learn this information. -Rachel Feldman, Business Coach for Health Coaches     From the Back Cover  The Fat Flush Plan was one of the earliest popular diet books to incorporate the concept of detoxification as one of the elements of a healthy diet... It's easy to see how Gittleman got the nickname 'The First Lady of Nutrition'. She was certainly one of the first to buck the low-fat establishment. She was one of the first to address parasites... and she did a lot to bring the issue of gut health to the public's attention.  -Better Nutrition  Fat Flush revolutionized the detox and dieting concept and we are all standing on the shoulders of the Fat Flush Phenomenon.   -Mark Hyman, M.D. Director, Cleveland Clinic Center for Functional Medicine; Chairman, The Institute for Functional Medicine; Founder and Director, The UltraWellness Center   I always admired her passion for healing for all, her desire to look deeper and her healing wisdom. ?Dr. Raphael Kellman, Kellman Center for Functional \u0026amp; Integrative Medicine  A powerful 'Force of Nature' in the healing community, Ann Louise is used to being on the cutting edge. Want to see what the experts will be saying in 25 years? Simply see what she is saying NOW! ?Jacob Teitelbaum, MD, author of The Complete Guide to Beating Sugar Addiction  Ann Louise Gittleman has been a leading innovator in the field of integrative medicine for decades. Her books bring cutting-edge research to health consumers in an easy-to-understand form. She was one of the first to warn of the dangers of our infatuation with low-carb diets, and now science has validated her message. ?Ronald Hoffman, MD, Host of Intelligent Medicine   A long-time guiding light in the world of nutritional medicine, Ann Louise continues to be The First Lady of Nutrition and someone I can always count on for the best information for my patients, my readers, and me... ?Hyla Cass, MD, author of Supplement Your Prescription  From Fat Flush to detox, Ann Louise Gittleman is a trailblazer whose impeccable, groundbreaking research and knowledge paved the path for nutritionists today. As she has for the past few decades, Gittleman continues to inspire, motivate, and challenge me today. ?JJ Virgin, Celebrity Nutritionist and Author of The Sugar Impact Diet  Ann Louise's Fat Flush Plan is dietary common sense for all the right reasons?it's balanced, it's a program you can safely stay on for life, and it works. ?Dr. Barry Sears, author of The Zone  If nutrition has glamour, she's got it! ?The late Robert C. Atkins, MD, author of Dr. Atkins' New Diet Revolution  Ann Louise Gittleman has demonstrated extraordinary leadership when it comes to reporting on the fundamental causes of illness and disease. Whether it's parasites in Guess What Came to Dinner? or environmental toxins in The Fat Flush Plan or toxic EMF or RF in Zapped, she reaches the hearts of the public by not only demonstrating what causes illness, but she also offers solutions on how to fix them! I'm proud to be one of her colleagues. ?Stephen Sinatra, MD, FACC, integrative cardiologist and coauthor of Health Revelations from Heaven and Earth  I have been privileged to know Ann Louise Gittleman for a number of decades and respect her dedication in assisting others to achieve vibrant health with nutrition and natural therapies. She is truly at the top of her field, deserving designation as 'The First Lady of Nutrition.' ?Jonathan V. Wright, MD, Medical Director, Tahoma Clinic, Tukwila, Washington  Ann Louise Gittleman is a dynamic pioneer and leading authority in nutrition, health, and wellness. She is a beacon of light and inspiration for millions of people who seek advanced healing information that genuinely transforms their lives. ?Anthony William, author of Medical Medium: Mystery \u0026amp; Chronic Illness and Life Changing Foods  Ann Louise Gittleman is to be commended for getting the detox message out to mainstream Americans. I couldn't agree more with her message and her methods. ?Elson M. Haas, MD, author of Staying Healthy with New Medicine  I have been a huge professional fan of hers for decades. We share a mutual passion as 'nutrition detectives' to find underlying root causes of disease and disharmony and a healthy respect for the emerging field of energy medicine. ?Nan Kathryn Fuchs, PhD, nutrition expert and author  Over the years, Ann Louise has always been at the forefront when it comes to nutrition for optimal health and weight loss. As a guest on my radio show, she frequently and generously shared her knowledge and cutting-edge advice with my listeners, answering their questions and discussing all aspects of healthy eating for both general health and healthy weight loss. I incorporated her Fat Flush Plan into my popular Fit Camps with successful results and was honored to coauthor The Fat Flush Fitness Plan. In a world where advice can be so questionable, Ann Louise continues to offer sound advice. ?Joanie Greggains, original star of TV's Morning Stretch; health and fitness educator  Ann Louise has always been one of my favorite go-to nutritionists. Her Fat Flush Plan and other programs, supplements, and test kits have paved the way for a whole new generation of health and environmentally like-minded advocates and activists. She is STILL a superstar in our changing world and we are all very grateful for her tireless efforts to bring the most cutting-edge wisdom to a world that desperately needs it. ?Donna Gates, author and creator of Body Ecology  When it comes to wellness through nutrition, Ann Louise Gittleman not only pioneered the field; she continues to be ahead of her time and on top of the game. At First for Women, we rely on Gittleman to alert us to the newest scientific studies with the most urgent relevance for our readers?and she always delivers. ?Carol Brooks, editor in chief of First for Women magazine  Ann Louise Gittleman has done us all a service by showing how the essential fats can and should be used in an overall program for living longer, losing weight, and reaching optimal health. ?Julian Whitaker, MD, Whitaker Wellness Institute  I recall interviewing her on the radio when I was just starting out in the field of nutritional medicine... I was terrified because she was so much more knowledgeable then I...So I read all her books and became even more impressed. She was one of the greats even back then. She continues to learn, explore, and best of all, get the message out to millions of adoring fans. ?Fred Pescatore, MD, Author of The Hamptons Diet  Ann Louise Gittleman is the real deal.  With her wealth of clinical experience and encyclopedic knowledge of nutrition and health she has been one of the great influences on my professional life and one of the first people I turn to when I want a 'second opinion. ?Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS, Author of The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth     She is an original-a visionary in holistic nutrition. Ann Louise has always been ahead of them all and her insights have helped thousands! ?Frankie Boyer, Host of The Frankie Boyer Radio Show     Ann Louise Gittleman is an accomplished nutritionist, natural health educator and author with more insight into today's most prevalent health conditions than the typical MD. We need to be encouraging the leading voices in health, like Ann Louise Gittleman, who are the Paul Revere's of this generation... ?Camilla Rees, CEO of Wide Angle Health, LLC  Ann Louise Gittleman has been a colleague and hero of mine for years. She is a prolific and cutting-edge educator of nutrition and health. She walks her talk and is tireless in her delivery of information that shows you how to be healthier and happier. -Dr. Devaki Lindsey Berkson, Author of Safe Hormones, Smart Women  Ann Louise is a pioneer. She has paved the way for many to follow in her footsteps with her research, her knowledge and her consistent dedication to empower and teach this world about what to eat, how to support the body and how to shift the mind to have what she calls true health. 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The importance of sleep and the healing work that nature does during this time  Editorial Reviews  About the Author  SUZANNE SOMERSis the author of twenty-two books, including the #1 New York Times bestsellers Sexy Forever, Knockout and Ageless, and the Times bestsellers Breakthrough; Keeping Secrets, Eat Great, Lose Weight; Get Skinny on Fabulous Food; Eat, Cheat and Melt the Fat Away; Suzanne Somers' Fast and Easy; and The Sexy Years. Somers hosted a talk show, The SUZANNE Show, on the Lifetime Network and Suzanne Somers Breaking Through on YouTube's CafeMom. Visit www.suzannesomers.com for more information on her shows, products, and her phenomenally successful weight loss plan, Sexy Forever.   Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 1Taking Charge of Your Own HealthTo remain oblivious to the hidden regenerative processes inside your body will cause you to die unnecessarily young.- Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD, Fantastic Voyage Five years have passed, and as of this writing I have now been happily pronounced cancer-free. What a relief. No longer does each ache and pain trigger a fear in me of Oh God, is that 'it' coming back again? Cancer does that to you. It's an inner nagging, a constant reminder that there could be something bigger than yourself lurking out there in the shadows, sitting back, like a predator, deciding when and if it cares to strike again. Now, finally, I can release that fear. The predator has been locked up, in prison, hopefully never to be let out again. Along the way in this war I have been fighting have come the blessings. I am truly loved by those who mean the most to me. They showed me this over and over during this time. Through it all, I learned about my own strength and courage. I didn't know I had it in me to buck the system by choosing unconventional therapies and doing it my way. But you see, I was never able to wrap my arms around the standard of care set forth by Western medicine as the way to treat cancer. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I needed to be emotionally strong to fight the battle. To help with that, I needed to be hormonally in balance. It is hard to be in a fighting mood when you are hormonally depressed. Balanced hormones keep your emotions in check and I believe (based on my research) are the most effective way to prevent cell proliferation (cancer). Unfortunately, Western medicine's standard of care believes that taking away all hormones prevents disease. I believed differently, so I didn't want to go off my bioidentical hormones. Nor did I want to undergo chemotherapy. You see, I do not believe in the poison theory of using chemotherapy. It is my belief that an environment of balanced hormones prevents disease. This is reinforced by many of the doctors interviewed in this book. For one thing, it ablates, or takes away, hormones. Chemotherapy does kill cancer cells, but it also kills the immune system. Without a strong immune system, cancer has a perfect opportunity to proliferate. We need a strong immune system, and balanced hormones to prevent disease. So it didn't make sense to me to take away hormones as a means to kill cancer. As I now see it, there are two ways to fight cancer: build up or destroy. Western medicine's standard of care is to destroy. Well-meaning though it may be, the idea of chemicalizing myself, destroying everything, and hoping my health would come back, coupled with the instructions to give up my hormone therapy, was not appealing. I decided to approach cancer by building up. This took courage, because it is daunting to go against the course recommended by one's doctor. But because of the books I write and my understanding of the hormonal connection to health, I had a lot of information. I understood that hormonal balance is key to health and vitality. My decision to go against the standard of care was probably easier for me than it would be for other women not armed with the same information. I approached my cancer through balanced bioidentical hormone replacement and complemented this replacement with Iscador, an anthroposophic medicine whose function is to strengthen and build up the immune system so that disease cannot attack and invade. I believe this was the best decision of my life. Aside from the discomfort of injecting myself with Iscador every other day for these five years, my health has never been better. I have not had so much as a cold during this time; upon my last checkup, my immune system was so high that my doctor was ecstatic. He said he had never seen an immune system this strong in any of his adult patients. That information was able to put all my fears to rest. How could a life-threatening illness get past an immune system this strong? Great. I had done it. I beat it. I did it my way, with my body almost intact. So you can imagine my surprise (five years and one month after my initial diagnosis) when my gynecologist told me that I had a pre-precancerous condition (not cancer, not even precancer) growing in my uterus and that in order to prevent possible severe problems down the road, I would need to have my uterus removed. Why was the sleeping giant trying to rear its ugly head again? Luckily we caught this before it became cancer, yet it was serious enough to force the removal of an organ. I do not take the removal of any body part lightly. What was wrong? I have thought about this a lot. As a teenage mother, I was given my first major chemical, a shot to dry up my milk, and was encouraged to feed my baby Similac formula. In chapter 5 I will discuss at length the protective aspects of breast-feeding and prolactin production. Second, at age eighteen I was put on the early high-dose birth control pills and stayed on them for twenty-two years. Unknowingly, like so many women of my generation, these chemicals put me into a false menopause. All those years of chemicalization were dangerous to my health. Add to this scenario stress and environmental assault and a brutal childhood and you have a recipe for disaster. The ninth year of bioidentical hormone replacement, things started going wonky (this is my term--don't expect your doctors to use it!). I had breakthrough bleeding, and then after a while I was bleeding continuously. Something was wrong, obviously. You must understand that because bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is such a new science, all the medical professionals working in this arena are learning as fast as they can, but with each year we all learn more. At this point in my BHRT, I had not heard of rhythmic cycling, which I will explain in great detail later. In the way I was taking hormones on a static dose, my estrogen was not rising and falling as it once did in nature, and my progesterone was not rising and falling as it did when I was making a full complement of hormones in my youth. (See the diagram.) Because of this, my receptor sites were not opening to receive the progesterone, so the estrogen lining in my uterus kept building and building. Over time, like a motor on rev, this thinkening caused excessive bleeding and sent an alarm to my brain that all was not well, that this human being was no longer able to reproduce (which is why, according to nature, we exist). Because I was bleeding constantly, I was not ovulating. Thus I was not a reproductive person, according to my brain. You must understand that the object of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is to fool the brain into thinking I can still make a baby, even though I have no eggs left. As a result of not having a rhythm, and of the thickening and the bleeding, severe hyperplasia, along with adenomyosis (leaks in my uterine lining), came about. This excessive bleeding and hyperplasia created a perfect scenario for cancer, so I had no choice but to remove my uterus, thus removing my problem. I now feel that had I not been chemicalized by the dry-up shot, and if I had not been on strong birth control pills, and if I had been cycling in a rhythmic fashion, this problem might not have occurred. This is a theory that I have embraced, as have several of the doctors I interviewed for this book. As you will also see in these interviews, there are other doctors who do not agree with rhythmic cycling or with cycling in general. My job is to give you all the information from these professionals so you can draw your own conclusions. I am not a doctor, but I am a very informed layperson. I will explain rhythmic cycling in detail in chapter 5, and you can then decide what makes the most sense to you. I am merely the messenger. Losing my uterus caused me to do a lot of searching. For years, I was unknowingly hormonally imbalanced, not just as a perimenopausal and menopausal woman, but also as a young woman. Unfortunately, I never realized hormonal imbalance was the problem. Without hormones or imbalanced hormones, we lose any grip on feeling normal. Without hormones, life quality is greatly diminished. Without hormones, a woman is at her weakest physically. Without hormones, disease is allowed to proliferate because the brain perceives that the body is no longer reproductive; therefore, nature wants to eliminate you to make way for those who are healthy and reproductive. Loss of hormones is not to be taken lightly. Having no hormones is like having bad premenstrual syndrome (PMS) every day of your life. You are not in control of your emotions, nor are you in control of the cruel physical manifestations of the loss of hormones. Couple this with the stress of having and fighting cancer, and (to me) it doesn't make sense to be without hormones. You see, we may have changed with the passing of time, but the biology inside us has not. Nature has a job to do, and the brain was hard-wired at the begining of time and doesn't know anything else. A healthy woman is hormonally balanced. We can't outthink nature. This never works, no matter how hard we try to come up with something better. Women remain confused about hormones and in some cases terrified of hormone replacement; one day, headlines in the newspapers praise hormone replacement therapy (HRT); the next day, the headlines are screaming that HRT will kill us. The truth is, despite the widespread use of synthetic hormone brands such as Premarin and Provera, these drugs have always been associated with cancer. The first cancer linked with synthetic hormone replacement was cancer of the uterus lining (endometrium). The most recent resurfacing of the negatives associated with synthetic hormones and cancer came from a government-sponsored study titled the Women's Health Initiative. This study was supposed to last 8.5 years, but it was stopped after only 5.2 years because the risks of using Premarin and Provera outweighed the benefits. Breast cancer was just one of the increased risks discovered. Additionally, the study concluded that synthetic hormone replacement therapy protects neither your bones nor your heart. Ironically, bone and heart protection were two of the primary benefits once used by doctors as selling points to get women to fill their prescriptions for these drugs. The Women's Health Initiative Study hoped to show decreases in *breast cancer *stroke *pulmonary embolism *colorectal cancer *endometrial cancer *hip fracture *death due to any cause The actual outcome results were shocking: *29 percent increase in coronary heart disease *41 percent increase in strokes *22 percent increase in cardiovascular disease *2,100 percent (yes, this is correct) increase in pulmonary embolism (lung blood clots) *26 percent increase in breast cancer So much for synthetic hormones! These statistics alone should convince you right away of the negative effects of these so-called synthetic hormones. Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones- strong synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link, and you'll learn more about it in this book. Read on and see if you relate to my scenario: As I said, for twenty-two years, I was on synthetic birth control pills, the original ones that were very strong. I even manipulated my periods with them, if I didn't want to have a period on a particular weekend. I just didn't realize what was in those birth control pills, nor did I understand the dangers of messing with nature. I did not realize that having only a two-day bleed meant that I was not ovulating fully. At the time, I thought it was great to have such a light period. I did not realize that the importance of ovulation in the human female body is to let the brain know that I was well, healthy, and reproductive. As far as my brain was concerned, I was not reproductive because I was not fully ovulating. An ovulating woman is a reproductive woman. To believe that the body is not fully ovulating is a dangerous assumption for the brain to make. If the brain perceives us as unable to reproduce, its job, biologically speaking, is to try to eliminate us to make room for the reproductive ones. This is the nature in us. This is the template that was programmed in us from ancient times. Thus, this hormonal imbalance that I unknowingly put myself in was creating a backdrop for cancer. Why? Because we all have cancer in us, but as long as we are hormonally balanced, the brain perceives us as young, strong, and healthy. If we become imbalanced, this signals to the brain that the reproductive system is no longer in working order, and it is in this scenario that the cancer has a chance to come into being. You see, cancer proliferates in an environment of hormonal imbalance. This is why I believe that Western medicine's standard of care, well-meaning as it is, is treating us incorrectly. Western medicine is looking at everything except the obvious. Western medicine is trying to poison the cancer out of us, further wreaking havoc with our hormonal systems. Then, to prevent recurrence, we are given hormone ablation drugs such as tamoxifen or Femara, which interfere with the body's ability to read the hormones in some parts of the body. Plus, for many women these drugs cause horrible side effects. To me, it doesn't make sense to take any drug that prevents new hormones from being made in our bodies or to kill off any of the little bit of hormones we might have left. Why has Western medicine been trying to outthink nature? We are given fake hormones that don't replicate exactly what our bodies make naturally, and doctors are expecting them to work in the same way or better. It hasn't worked. Look around. Are the women you know doing well from midlife on? Most everyone has complaints, from mild to severe. No wonder women are in such bad shape. Once you understand the importance of your brain perceiving the body as reproductive--our brain template--it will be easier for you to make decisions for yourself. We assume that the professionals who are taking care of us know what they are doing. But they can't know what they haven't been taught, and unless you find yourself a doctor such as the ones  Excerpt. ® Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. CHAPTER 1Taking Charge of Your Own HealthTo remain oblivious to the hidden regenerative processes inside your body will cause you to die unnecessarily young.- Ray Kurzweil and Terry Grossman, MD, Fantastic Voyage Five years have passed, and as of this writing I have now been happily pronounced cancer-free. What a relief. No longer does each ache and pain trigger a fear in me of Oh God, is that 'it' coming back again? Cancer does that to you. It's an inner nagging, a constant reminder that there could be something bigger than yourself lurking out there in the shadows, sitting back, like a predator, deciding when and if it cares to strike again. Now, finally, I can release that fear. The predator has been locked up, in prison, hopefully never to be let out again. Along the way in this war I have been fighting have come the blessings. I am truly loved by those who mean the most to me. They showed me this over and over during this time. Through it all, I learned about my own strength and courage. I didn't know I had it in me to buck the system by choosing unconventional therapies and doing it my way. But you see, I was never able to wrap my arms around the standard of care set forth by Western medicine as the way to treat cancer. When I was diagnosed with cancer, I needed to be emotionally strong to fight the battle. To help with that, I needed to be hormonally in balance. It is hard to be in a fighting mood when you are hormonally depressed. Balanced hormones keep your emotions in check and I believe (based on my research) are the most effective way to prevent cell proliferation (cancer). Unfortunately, Western medicine's standard of care believes that taking away all hormones prevents disease. I believed differently, so I didn't want to go off my bioidentical hormones. Nor did I want to undergo chemotherapy. You see, I do not believe in the poison theory of using chemotherapy. It is my belief that an environment of balanced hormones prevents disease. This is reinforced by many of the doctors interviewed in this book. For one thing, it ablates, or takes away, hormones. Chemotherapy does kill cancer cells, but it also kills the immune system. Without a strong immune system, cancer has a perfect opportunity to proliferate. We need a strong immune system, and balanced hormones to prevent disease. So it didn't make sense to me to take away hormones as a means to kill cancer. As I now see it, there are two ways to fight cancer: build up or destroy. Western medicine's standard of care is to destroy. Well-meaning though it may be, the idea of chemicalizing myself, destroying everything, and hoping my health would come back, coupled with the instructions to give up my hormone therapy, was not appealing. I decided to approach cancer by building up. This took courage, because it is daunting to go against the course recommended by one's doctor. But because of the books I write and my understanding of the hormonal connection to health, I had a lot of information. I understood that hormonal balance is key to health and vitality. My decision to go against the standard of care was probably easier for me than it would be for other women not armed with the same information. I approached my cancer through balanced bioidentical hormone replacement and complemented this replacement with Iscador, an anthroposophic medicine whose function is to strengthen and build up the immune system so that disease cannot attack and invade. I believe this was the best decision of my life. Aside from the discomfort of injecting myself with Iscador every other day for these five years, my health has never been better. I have not had so much as a cold during this time; upon my last checkup, my immune system was so high that my doctor was ecstatic. He said he had never seen an immune system this strong in any of his adult patients. That information was able to put all my fears to rest. How could a life-threatening illness get past an immune system this strong? Great. I had done it. I beat it. I did it my way, with my body almost intact. So you can imagine my surprise (five years and one month after my initial diagnosis) when my gynecologist told me that I had a pre-precancerous condition (not cancer, not even precancer) growing in my uterus and that in order to prevent possible severe problems down the road, I would need to have my uterus removed. Why was the sleeping giant trying to rear its ugly head again? Luckily we caught this before it became cancer, yet it was serious enough to force the removal of an organ. I do not take the removal of any body part lightly. What was wrong? I have thought about this a lot. As a teenage mother, I was given my first major chemical, a shot to dry up my milk, and was encouraged to feed my baby Similac formula. In chapter 5 I will discuss at length the protective aspects of breast-feeding and prolactin production. Second, at age eighteen I was put on the early high-dose birth control pills and stayed on them for twenty-two years. Unknowingly, like so many women of my generation, these chemicals put me into a false menopause. All those years of chemicalization were dangerous to my health. Add to this scenario stress and environmental assault and a brutal childhood and you have a recipe for disaster. The ninth year of bioidentical hormone replacement, things started going wonky (this is my term--don't expect your doctors to use it!). I had breakthrough bleeding, and then after a while I was bleeding continuously. Something was wrong, obviously. You must understand that because bioidentical hormone replacement therapy (BHRT) is such a new science, all the medical professionals working in this arena are learning as fast as they can, but with each year we all learn more. At this point in my BHRT, I had not heard of rhythmic cycling, which I will explain in great detail later. In the way I was taking hormones on a static dose, my estrogen was not rising and falling as it once did in nature, and my progesterone was not rising and falling as it did when I was making a full complement of hormones in my youth. (See the diagram.) Because of this, my receptor sites were not opening to receive the progesterone, so the estrogen lining in my uterus kept building and building. Over time, like a motor on rev, this thinkening caused excessive bleeding and sent an alarm to my brain that all was not well, that this human being was no longer able to reproduce (which is why, according to nature, we exist). Because I was bleeding constantly, I was not ovulating. Thus I was not a reproductive person, according to my brain. You must understand that the object of bioidentical hormone replacement therapy is to fool the brain into thinking I can still make a baby, even though I have no eggs left. As a result of not having a rhythm, and of the thickening and the bleeding, severe hyperplasia, along with adenomyosis (leaks in my uterine lining), came about. This excessive bleeding and hyperplasia created a perfect scenario for cancer, so I had no choice but to remove my uterus, thus removing my problem. I now feel that had I not been chemicalized by the dry-up shot, and if I had not been on strong birth control pills, and if I had been cycling in a rhythmic fashion, this problem might not have occurred. This is a theory that I have embraced, as have several of the doctors I interviewed for this book. As you will also see in these interviews, there are other doctors who do not agree with rhythmic cycling or with cycling in general. My job is to give you all the information from these professionals so you can draw your own conclusions. I am not a doctor, but I am a very informed layperson. I will explain rhythmic cycling in detail in chapter 5, and you can then decide what makes the most sense to you. I am merely the messenger. Losing my uterus caused me to do a lot of searching. For years, I was unknowingly hormonally imbalanced, not just as a perimenopausal and menopausal woman, but also as a young woman. Unfortunately, I never realized hormonal imbalance was the problem. Without hormones or imbalanced hormones, we lose any grip on feeling normal. Without hormones, life quality is greatly diminished. Without hormones, a woman is at her weakest physically. Without hormones, disease is allowed to proliferate because the brain perceives that the body is no longer reproductive; therefore, nature wants to eliminate you to make way for those who are healthy and reproductive. Loss of hormones is not to be taken lightly. Having no hormones is like having bad premenstrual syndrome (PMS) every day of your life. You are not in control of your emotions, nor are you in control of the cruel physical manifestations of the loss of hormones. Couple this with the stress of having and fighting cancer, and (to me) it doesn't make sense to be without hormones. You see, we may have changed with the passing of time, but the biology inside us has not. Nature has a job to do, and the brain was hard-wired at the begining of time and doesn't know anything else. A healthy woman is hormonally balanced. We can't outthink nature. This never works, no matter how hard we try to come up with something better. Women remain confused about hormones and in some cases terrified of hormone replacement; one day, headlines in the newspapers praise hormone replacement therapy (HRT); the next day, the headlines are screaming that HRT will kill us. The truth is, despite the widespread use of synthetic hormone brands such as Premarin and Provera, these drugs have always been associated with cancer. The first cancer linked with synthetic hormone replacement was cancer of the uterus lining (endometrium). The most recent resurfacing of the negatives associated with synthetic hormones and cancer came from a government-sponsored study titled the Women's Health Initiative. This study was supposed to last 8.5 years, but it was stopped after only 5.2 years because the risks of using Premarin and Provera outweighed the benefits. Breast cancer was just one of the increased risks discovered. Additionally, the study concluded that synthetic hormone replacement therapy protects neither your bones nor your heart. Ironically, bone and heart protection were two of the primary benefits once used by doctors as selling points to get women to fill their prescriptions for these drugs. The Women's Health Initiative Study hoped to show decreases in *breast cancer *stroke *pulmonary embolism *colorectal cancer *endometrial cancer *hip fracture *death due to any cause The actual outcome results were shocking: *29 percent increase in coronary heart disease *41 percent increase in strokes *22 percent increase in cardiovascular disease *2,100 percent (yes, this is correct) increase in pulmonary embolism (lung blood clots) *26 percent increase in breast cancer So much for synthetic hormones! These statistics alone should convince you right away of the negative effects of these so-called synthetic hormones. Those of us who were on the original birth control pills for any length of time were actually on synthetic hormones- strong synthetic hormones. Any wonder why women of our generation are under siege from an epidemic of breast and ovarian cancers? There is a link, and you'll learn more about it in this book. Read on and see if you relate to my scenario: As I said, for twenty-two years, I was on synthetic birth control pills, the original ones that were very strong. I even manipulated my periods with them, if I didn't want to have a period on a particular weekend. I just didn't realize what was in those birth control pills, nor did I understand the dangers of messing with nature. I did not realize that having only a two-day bleed meant that I was not ovulating fully. At the time, I thought it was great to have such a light period. I did not realize that the importance of ovulation in the human female body is to let the brain know that I was well, healthy, and reproductive. As far as my brain was concerned, I was not reproductive because I was not fully ovulating. An ovulating woman is a reproductive woman. To believe that the body is not fully ovulating is a dangerous assumption for the brain to make. If the brain perceives us as unable to reproduce, its job, biologically speaking, is to try to eliminate us to make room for the reproductive ones. This is the nature in us. This is the template that was programmed in us from ancient times. Thus, this hormonal imbalance that I unknowingly put myself in was creating a backdrop for cancer. Why? Because we all have cancer in us, but as long as we are hormonally balanced, the brain perceives us as young, strong, and healthy. If we become imbalanced, this signals to the brain that the reproductive system is no longer in working order, and it is in this scenario that the cancer has a chance to come into being. You see, cancer proliferates in an environment of hormonal imbalance. This is why I believe that Western medicine's standard of care, well-meaning as it is, is treating us incorrectly. Western medicine is looking at everything except the obvious. Western medicine is trying to poison the cancer out of us, further wreaking havoc with our hormonal systems. Then, to prevent recurrence, we are given hormone ablation drugs such as tamoxifen or Femara, which interfere with the body's ability to read the hormones in some parts of the body. Plus, for many women these drugs cause horrible side effects. To me, it doesn't make sense to take any drug that prevents new hormones from being made in our bodies or to kill off any of the little bit of hormones we might have left. Why has Western medicine been trying to outthink nature? We are given fake hormones that don't replicate exactly what our bodies make naturally, and doctors are expecting them to work in the same way or better. It hasn't worked. Look around. Are the women you know doing well from midlife on? Most everyone has complaints, from mild to severe. No wonder women are in such bad shape. 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