Dr. Christiane Northrup PBS Special Launches March 3rd
Mallika Chopra - March 02, 2007
Dear Friends, I wanted to let you know about Dr. Northrup's television special which starts this weekend on PBS. Mallika
Change Your Life and Your Misconceptions about Menopause!
“I’ve been to the mountaintop and I’ve come down the other side and I can tell you that the news about menopause is really, really good! ...
The days of ‘one-size-fits-all-medicine’ and the Father Knows Best version of ‘Here, take this pill and you’ll feel fine, ma’am’ is obsolete. It’s over. It’s not about raging hormones meant to torture you. This is a time to reinvent yourself. It’s a time to fuel your life not by what others think, but by source energy. It’s a time to mend all the unhealed parts of you. That’s why I call it the ‘wisdom’ of menopause. And this information is equally relevant for men.”
—Dr. Christiane Northrup
Renowned women’s wellness pioneer Dr. Christiane Northrup will share her cutting-edge ideas on the most commonly misunderstood female health issues in her new upbeat and eye-opening public television special starting on March 3rd, and she’s inviting you to tune in!
Do you dread getting older?
Do you worry about unbearable hot flashes, sleep deprivation, and the end of your sex life?
Are you considering hormone replacement, but you aren’t too sure of what the controversy is all about?
There are 40 million American women who are 50 or older, and 20 million more who will reach menopause within the next decade. If you’re one of these women, New York Times best-selling author and today’s leading expert on women’s health issues Dr. Christiane Northrup wants to dispel some popular misconceptions and let you in on the good news: The second half of your life is designed to provide you with more pleasure, prosperity, and fulfillment than you have ever dreamed possible!
Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women, which begins airing in March, is based on Dr. Northrup’s long-anticipated revised edition of The Wisdom of Menopause—the book that women around the world have embraced, including Oprah Winfrey, who sought Dr. Northrup’s wise words when she turned 50 and faced “The Big M.”
In Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women, you can hear Dr. Northrup’s new perspective on menopause where she’ll refute the stereotypic definition as a frenzy of hot flashes and hormonal mood swings, and instead prove that it’s an illuminating chapter in a woman’s life—one with wonderful gifts and challenges to discover. Most important, she’ll provide you with a blueprint for making sure that your menopausal years are the happiest and most vibrantly healthy years of your life.
During Dr. Northrup’s all-new public television special—Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women, you’ll learn:
● Guaranteed ways to lose weight permanently and balance your hormones with diet
● Why you should heed the messages behind your mood swings and hot flashes
● How to experience the best sex of your life after menopause
● How to achieve vibrant cardiovascular health as well as what the real indicators of cardiovascular disease are
● Why an individualized approach to HRT, including bioidentical hormones and nutritional alternatives, works best
● How to lower your risk of all cancers, including breast cancer
● To cultivate midlife beauty better than any cosmetic product or surgery ever could
● Why stress of all kinds, including emotional, physical, or nutritional, can fuel hormonal imbalances…and provide an unparalleled opportunity for growth
● How changes in the midlife brain prepare us for living with more wisdom than ever before
And more!
With impeccable scientific and medical credentials and more than 25 years of clinical experience as an ob-gyn physician, Dr. Northrup has given millions of women uplifting messages of hope, health, and healing for the female body and spirit. Now Dr. Northrup can change your life and your misconceptions about menopause. See her in this groundbreaking new public television special—Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women!
It’s time to update your thinking and embrace menopause as an exciting time when you can change your life for the better. Dr. Northrup explains how.
See Menopause and Beyond: New Wisdom for Women when it airs throughout the month of March! Check your local public television station for airtimes and dates. For more details, visit Dr. Northrup’s new Website: www.drnorthrup.com
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Posted by Mallika Chopra at March 2, 2007 08:54 AM
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1. Posted by
Rajesh Sharma
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March 2, 2007 10:28 AM
Hello Mallika and Everyone,
Mallika, thank you for the information. I am a big fan of Dr. Northrup.
Rajesh, when I started to experience a hot flash I would do like you state, above, breath deeply and slowly and it really helped, I hesitate to say it helped to stop it, since, I rarely have them and the ones I do experience are very light to begin with. I felt like I wanted to move in to the hot flash, with my breath, rather than try to move away from it, to experience it fully and slowly seemed to be my body's instinctive respone to it.
have a great day everyone, ruth
2. Posted by
ruth
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March 2, 2007 11:29 AM
When I'm having a hot flash, I jump in the pool! In January, it's guaranteed to stop it! Since I hit 41 it's been awful! I wondered why it was happening, but Bonnie cleared it up for me over in the open thread! The feminization of America is almost complete! I've been having a weird fascination with my wife's shoes...after checking in with IB today, though, I now feel complete!
Damn, it's hot in this office...wait a minute, oh no...here it comes again....well...time for a swim!
norm (ette)
3. Posted by
norm
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March 2, 2007 11:44 AM
Oh Yeah....I checked in With AlGore...to see if I could get 'estrogen credits'! Seems I've been burning so much estrogen lately, i though the thing to do would be to reduce my 'estrogen footprint'! He guaranteed it would stop all my screaming and pulling my neighbors hair! The lipstick is gonna take a while! My fishing buddies aint' never gonna understand this!
norm (ette)
4. Posted by
norm
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March 2, 2007 11:47 AM
Hello Everyone,
Norm, we are talking MENOPAUSE HERE! 41, hmmmmm, well, I suspect your wife is a youngin like yourself so she has a ways to go before she may expericence a hot flash so I will give you a heads up for future reference, because I am that kind of lady, nice. Joking around while a woman is having a hot flash could have VERY serious consequences.
have a great evening, ruth
5. Posted by
ruth
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March 2, 2007 02:21 PM
Just to say thank you Mallika for sharing this.
6. Posted by
Char4
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March 2, 2007 02:45 PM
Norm:
Apparently it was foolish of me to give you relevant information about how environmental pollution affects men's health.
Bonnie
7. Posted by
Bonnie
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March 3, 2007 08:08 AM
Sorry Mallika, Grim here, I just kinda fell into this page by accident and I raed your lovely artlcle and man my spelling is shocking.
8. Posted by
Grim
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March 3, 2007 01:40 PM
#2
Thanks Ruth for sharing
Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma
9. Posted by
Rajesh Sharma
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March 5, 2007 10:45 PM
Girl- I stayed up to 6am in a hotel room watching her special this weekend in San Fransisco! I'd just got back from a burning Man Fundraiser- sleep was not an option on that much adrenaline
Preach on! I saw so much of myself and my "sisters" in her well-spoken words.
Dr. Northrup "gets it" on so many levels-
The show drove me to check out her website-
I am certainly ordering some of her materials on mond-body medicine!
10. Posted by
ReneeRZ
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March 6, 2007 12:18 AM
Girl- I stayed up to 6am in a hotel room watching her special this weekend in San Fransisco! I'd just got back from a Burning Man Fundraiser- sleep was not an option on that much adrenaline
Preach on! I saw so much of myself and my "sisters" in her well-spoken words.
Dr. Northrup "gets it" on so many levels-
The show drove me to check out her website-
I am certainly ordering some of her materials on mond-body medicine!
11. Posted by
ReneeRZ
on
March 6, 2007 12:19 AM
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Here are some things you can do on a day-to-day basis to help alleviate hot flashes or at least make them easier:
-Keep the heat turned down, especially in the bedroom at night.
-Dress in layers that can be easily shed when your temperature rises.
-Wear exercise clothing that wicks away sweat during the day and at night.
-Exercise regularly.
-Learn and practice stress reduction.
-Learn and practice paced respiration. Paced respiration is breathing from deep inside your abdomen, while slowing your breaths to 5–6 times a minute (normal is 10–15 breaths per minute). You practice breathing in for five seconds and breathing out for five seconds to get the timing right. Practice every day for 15 minutes. Then, if you feel a hot flash coming on, try decreasing your breathing, which may help nip that hot flash in the bud.
Although insomnia is often related to night sweats, it is also true that you don't sleep as well when your hormones are awry. Some easy lifestyle changes can help. These include:
-Keeping your bedroom cool.
-Exercising early in the day—if you exercise right before going to bed, it will keep you awake.
-Cutting down on caffeine and alcohol.
-Taking warm baths or showers.
-Having cereal and milk products at bedtime.
-Learning visualization, meditation, and the relaxation response.
Mood swings typically affect not only you, but also those around you. If you are trying to handle mood swings, a lifestyle approach is a good place to start. Some recommended lifestyle changes include:
-Reducing alcohol and caffeine use.
-Eating a diet high in fruits and vegetables.
-Incorporating exercise into your life. Yoga can be especially helpful.
-Joining a support group for perimenopausal women.
-Learning visualization, meditation, and the relaxation response.
-Taking on new mental challenges, such as:
-Studying a new language.
-Learning to play a musical instrument.
-Writing.
-Attending lectures and discussion groups.
-Solving crossword puzzles.
-Trying to recall all the stories you heard on the evening news.
With Lots of Love
Rajesh Sharma