Cure for the Rage?

Could this be a cure for the rage?  (the bad kind of rage only, of course!) If you're like me, you've noticed some changes in yourself that seemed to coincide with your crossing the precipice into the 40's.  Here are a few test questions:

Have you experienced in the last six months any of the following:

• A feeling you're constantly racing from one task to the next?
• Feeling wired yet tired?
• A quickness to feel anger or rage?
• Memory lapses or feeling distracted?
• Loss of stamina, particularly in the afternoon from 2-5?
• Insomnia or difficulty staying asleep?
• Salt cravings?
• Sugar cravings?
• Brain fog? 
• Achy joints?
• Thinning hair?
• Additional few pounds that you just can't lose?
• Heavy or irregular periods?
• And yes, vaginal dryness and/or decreased libido?

Answer yes to a few (um, or most like I did)?  Read on..

The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol, by Dr. Sara Gottfried is an amazing resource to help find the possible reasons for these symptoms and potential solutions.  I mean, read the title -- who doesn't want all of those things?!?  Yes, please!

Here are a few things I love so far about this book.  First, this woman is legit.  Harvard/MIT/UCSF trained, board certified gynecologist.  She practiced traditional medicine for many years before realizing that, after seeing so many women with similar symptoms (as well as her own!), a more integrative approach was necessary.  Second, it's all about balance.  Balancing our lives helps us to be our best.  Third, for health/medical nerds like me (if I had the stomach for it, I'd go back to school to be a doctor!), it gives fantastic scientific background on every aspect of the uber-important endocrine system and the role each of the major hormones plays in our body, particularly as we age.  Fourth, Dr Gottfried is all about making lifestyle changes first and foremost, then supplementation, then, only if needed, bioidentical hormones.

Give this one a try - you will be sucked in like me.  I'll keep you posted on my own investigation.  Take charge of your health, ragers!   We need to be at our absolute best to rage on for the next 20, 30, 40 years or more!

Heather