I started watching her webinars. So far, this option is easier to watch than her videos. As annoying as she may be, her content and knowledge are good. Again, I also recommend the second video that I shared, the one with Dominique Sachse. Overall, like you, I prefer to read than watch and am considering ordering her book. I wish that it was available on Kindle. It will take so long to get here since I live outside the U.S.

Debbi, I had another book by her a while back, "Goddesses Never Age". I skimmed through it and wasn't impressed at all. I noticed emotional stuff there also. I'm not saying emotions don't count. They do, but they're not the end-all and be-all. I noticed in the reviews for her menopause book that she talks about chakras and all. That's not my cup of tea. I also know that she's a strong anti-vaxxer. To each their own. This is what I like so far about Dr. Taylor. She goes into detail with all approaches - medical, natural, diet and lifestyle. She allows you to pick and choose, weighing the pros and cons of each. The all-natural (chakra) approach may not be suitable for all.

I was "this close" to ordering it, but I read some of the reviews and I decided against it. What's AF? I hate the belly fat! I have been watching her a bit more and what I have seen is that she really doesn't seem to be pushing any one single method. I need to watch more. I'm halfway through this video and I'm liking it so far. Sharing this for you or any one who may be interested. We don't have a library in our country. Again, as I said above, I decided against Christine Northrup's book, based on some of the reviews. You're wise to focus on bone density and to do weight-bearing exercises. Here goes. Oh, by the way, I love your user name! On her site, she also has a radio show. There are other options than watching.

I'm slowly going through her PDF. Her videos are so annoying to me that although I need the information, I feel that I have to psych myself up in order to watch them. Like nails on a blackboard. You are correct. I have watched several of her videos and I haven't seen her push her book once. It's merely been mentioned so far. The only thing that she pushes is to watch her videos in order. Thank you so much for clarifying that. I agree. Although I don't feel any dryness or change in the padding of my feet, etc., I expect that all that will happen soon. I agree that it is a natural part of life. I'm not nearly as concerned about the looks aspect as I am about the health concerns. If I know that there's any way that I can possibly lessen the chances of heart disease, osteoporosis, and Alzheimer's, I would liek to have that option. I'm sorry about your mom. Sorry about your arthritis and PF. I agree with you. I don't want to look fake, like so many celebrities and famous people who all start to look the same. If I am able to go on HRT, it's not for the looks aspect, it's primarily for health concerns. I LOVE all things skin care! I used to be an esthetician in my previous life. Thank you for recommending Penn Smith! I'm always on the search for good channels. My daughter and I both love this stuff. Thank you for your helpful feedback. Sorry to hear about your hot flashes and bleeding. Like you, I am mostly concerned about heart disease. I need to make an appointment with my doctor and see what he says.

Actually, I have had one symptom which has started right around the same time as menopause - awful bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome - it's the worst. For some women, carpal tunnel seems to be exacerbated by menopause. Here's a study that Hot and Flashy linked.

Thank you so much for this intelligent insight. I really do appreciate you sharing this. Thank you! Debbi, this is how I heard about her also. I've been slowly catching up on You Tube videos to watch, the channels that I follow. I love Hot and Flashy by the way, and am happy to hear that you follow her also! I figured, oh, if Angie loves her, then maybe she's on to something. Another channel that I follow is Dominique Sachse and she has at least one video with her also. I haven't seen that one yet. Too many videos to catch up on and too little time! I also find her hard to watch and annoying. Yes, her name is silly. I wish that she'd hurry up on her videos and get to the point. I've watched a few of her earlier ones, since I've been trying to watch them in order. They were making me cranky. Remember your adorable grandson's picture that you posted in the memes thread, the one where he didn't look too happy about having to do his schoolwork? I started to have that look on my face when watching her! LOL! Thank you for your helpful feedback regarding the book. I won't be ordering that. I wish that I could find a helpful, yet not annoying menopause channel on You Tube. I guess I need to make an appointment with my ob-gyn, which is a giant pain. Seeing him is the absolute worst. LOL! Thanks again. If I could only lose weight, most of my problems would go away, but given what I have seen and read so far, HRT may be be beneficial for a short period of time. I would never have believed that had you asked me this even up to a week ago. One can either take a medical approach, natural (supplements, etc.), or do nothing, which is what I've done so far. I haven't had that many symptoms when it comes to menopause. Hot flashes haven't been too bothersome. Nothing major. However, I am concerned about heart disease, osteoporosis, and even Alzheimer's. Those are areas that HRT may help. Breast cancer doesn't run in my family. I've learned that there's a window of time to start HRT, if one is going to do so. It is open from the onset of menopause to 10 years after. After that, it is when the risks are bigger than the benefits. I read and saw from the videos that despite the big fear about HRT causing breast cancer, which is what I was led to believe up to a week ago, the numbers are not there to justify it. But 1 out 2 post-menopausal women die from heart disease and heart attacks. HRT seems to be protective in this area, as well as with Alzheimer's and osteoporosis. If you are interested and have 21 minutes, this video may be of interest. It seems to start where I have put it on pause. My apologies. If you do watch it, you need to watch it from the beginning.

I'm 52 and just realized that according to the definition, I'm now post-menopausal. The average age for menopause is 51. Once you have no longer had your period for twelve consecutive months, you’re post-menopausal. I'm usually very organized and do my research. Menopause has sadly been the exception and I have been ill-prepared. I’m disappointed with myself. Given my family history, heart disease is more of a concern than breast cancer. Osteoporosis and mental decline may be concerns also. I recently came across Menopause Barbie's You Tube channel. She prefers that her videos be watched in order. I’ve been watching a few in the past couple of days. She is a bit quirky to say the least, but she knows her stuff, after all, she’s a retired ob-gyn. She doesn't push for anything, more for informational purposes only. Here is more info about her. Has anyone heard of her? Her book/s are expensive and seem to be out-of-print. She’s also on Facebook. If you have heard of her, I'd love to hear your thoughts. I printed out her lengthy 95-page information handout. I’m going to read it soon, since I think I’m more into reading information than listening. Her videos, although very informative, can be overly lengthy and I can only handle so much quirkiness. I feel like saying, “Get to the point already.” I’m open to hearing any suggestions for resources that are preferably well-researched and helpful. You Tube, blogs, books, anything. Thank you!

Kindle book on sale today - science/memoir

A quote that I love by an author that I also love: “I can’t pass a bookstore without slipping inside, looking for the next book that will burn my hand when I touch its jacket, or hand me over a promissory note of such immense power that it contains the formula that will change everything about me. Here is all I ask of a book—give me everything. Everything, and don’t leave out a single word.” – Pat Conroy, “My Reading Life" This is a picture that we took when we visited The American Book Center in Amsterdam five years ago. It was an amazing store and although we spent lots of time there, we could easily have spent an entire day just browsing.

Kindle book on sale today. Not super-cheap, but discounted nonetheless. The 10 Laws of Enduring Success

How lovely to get a new Dodge in time for your upcoming anniversary and husband's birthday! I read Case Histories - 3 Stars - This is a mystery with a few cold cases that the main character, Jackson Brodie, is hired to resolve. I was hooked right from the get-go and it kept my attention. The book’s strength lies in its fabulous character development. However, I wasn’t satisfied with the ending and didn’t care for the fact that there were quite a few loose ends and unanswered questions. I felt cheated. MY RATING SYSTEM 5 Stars The book is fantastic. It’s not perfect, since no book is, but it’s definitely a favorite of mine. 4 Stars Really Good 3 Stars Enjoyable 2 Stars Just Okay – nothing to write home about 1 Star Rubbish – waste of my money and time. Few books make it to this level, since I usually give up on them if they’re that bad.

I read One Summer: America, 1927 - 3 Stars - Bill Bryson fans seem to be divided into two groups. Those who prefer his fact-based books versus those who prefer his travelogues. I fall into the latter group. I am obsessed with his travelogues and plan on re-reading them all again, even though they’re quite dated. Some of those have made me laugh to the point of tears. I’ve really wanted to love his fact-based books, such as this one. I’m not there yet, but I haven’t given up. There are still a few more that I wouldn’t mind trying. This book is thoroughly researched and covers a wide range of topics – prohibition, Charles Lindbergh, Henry Ford, Calvin Coolidge, Babe Ruth, just to name a few. However, I got bored and restless with the parts that didn’t interest me, such as baseball and boxing – lots and lots of baseball! Those parts got a bit tiresome and I felt bogged down by all the details. Bryson has this tendency to go off into Bryson-land, going into far more detail than what I think is necessary. I guess the fact that I was glad to have finished it tells me that I didn't really enjoy it all that much. I also wasn’t too keen on the way that the book was organized. Here are the parts that I thought were the most interesting as well as some of my favorite quotes: CROWDS AND SPECTACLE “On a warm spring evening just before Easter 1927, people who lived in tall buildings in New York were given pause when wooden scaffolding around the tower of the brand-new Sherry-Netherland Apartment Hotel caught fire and it became evident that the city’s firemen lacked any means to get water to such a height. Crowds flocked to Fifth Avenue to watch the blaze, the biggest the city had seen in years. … From a distance, the building looked rather like a just-struck match. The flames were visible twenty miles away. … People in 1920s America were unusually drawn to spectacle and by 10 PM the crowd had grown to an estimated hundred thousand people – an enormous gathering for a spontaneous event. … Some wealthy observers, deflected from their evening revels, took rooms in the Plaza Hotel across the street and held impromptu ‘fire room parties’, according to ‘The New York Times’.” HOOVER BARELY LAUGHED I’m not sure how true this is. Bryson may be a bit biased. “Hoover was a diligent and industrious presence in both administrations, but he was dazzlingly short on endearing qualities. His manner was cold, vain, prickly, and snappish. He never thanked subordinates or enquired into their happiness or well-being. He had no visible capacity for friendliness or warmth. He did not even like shaking hands. Although Coolidge’s sense of humor was that of a slightly backward schoolboy – one of his favorite japes was to ring all the White House servant bells at once, then hide behind the curtains to savor the confusion that followed – he did at least have a sense of humor. Hoover had none. One of his closest associates remarked that in thirty years he had never heard Hoover laugh out loud.” Honestly, I can’t find the point of living if I was like that. I can barely go by for a day without laughter! I have a magnet on my fridge with a quote that says, “The most wasted day is that in which we have not laughed.” That’s my personal motto and reminder. And this: “He socialized a little, but poorly. Dinners at his house often passed in more or less complete silence.” READING “The 1920s was a great time for reading altogether—very possibly the peak decade for reading in American life. Soon it would be overtaken by the passive distractions of radio, but for the moment reading remained most people’s principal method for filling idle time.” HENRY FORD “For a man who changed the world, Henry Ford traveled in very small circles. … He was defiantly narrow-minded, barely educated, and at least close to functionally illiterate. His beliefs were powerful but consistently dubious, and made him seem, in the words of The New Yorker, “mildly unbalanced.” He did not like bankers, doctors, liquor, tobacco, idleness of any sort, pasteurized milk, Wall Street, overweight people, war, books or reading, J. P. Morgan and Co., capital punishment, tall buildings, college graduates, Roman Catholics, or Jews. Especially he didn’t like Jews. Once he hired a Hebraic scholar to translate the Talmud in a manner designed to make Jewish people appear shifty and avaricious.” Describing a heatwave in New York City: “Open-sided trolleys ran on Broadway, and for a nickel, people could ride them for as long as they liked. Hundreds did. At night, many people lugged mattresses on to fire escapes or rooftops and slept there. Large numbers went to Central Park with blankets and pillows and camped beneath the stars. The playwright Arthur Miller, then an eleven-year-old boy growing up on 110th Street, years later recalled the surreal experience of walking through an open-air dormitory: ‘With a couple of other kids, I would go across to the Park and walk among the hundreds of people, singles and families, who slept on the grass, beside their big alarm clocks … Babies cried in the darkness, men’s deep voices murmured, and a woman let out an occasional high laugh by the lake.’” MY RATING SYSTEM 5 Stars The book is fantastic. It’s not perfect, since no book is, but it’s definitely a favorite of mine. 4 Stars Really Good 3 Stars Enjoyable 2 Stars Just Okay – nothing to write home about 1 Star Rubbish – waste of my money and time. Few books make it to this level, since I usually give up on them if they’re that bad.

Kindle book on sale today.

Kindle book on sale today. Plainsong

Happy Sunday to you also, Robin,. and thank you, as always, for this lovely thread! I read Twisted : The Collected Stories of Jeffery Deaver - 3 Stars - This is not the type of book that I read much anymore. I was pleasantly surprised. It’s a collection of short stories all of which have a twist at the end. Most of those twists are the type that you really don’t see coming, or at least I didn’t, and I am usually good at that sort of thing. I love books like that! I love anything that gets my mind off all the news and recent events. This is the first book that I have read by this author. I’m going to look up more of his books. My favorite quote: “What good is it to perform anyway? The audience sits there like logs, they cough and sneeze, they don’t dress up anymore. Do you know what it’s like playing Brahms for people wearing blue jeans and T-shirts?” MY RATING SYSTEM 5 Stars The book is fantastic. It’s not perfect, since no book is, but it’s definitely a favorite of mine. 4 Stars Really Good 3 Stars Enjoyable 2 Stars Just Okay – nothing to write home about 1 Star Rubbish – waste of my money and time. Few books make it to this level, since I usually give up on them if they’re that bad.

I miss these books!

Me too. I'm going to alternate the book with some DVDs that I have that have similar routines, as well as some YouTube videos. Dreamergal, welcome! I loved reading your intro! I also grew up with lots of Enid Blyton and we read some V.S. Naipaul in secondary school. I was born in Iran, grew up in Wales, moved to Grenada (Caribbean), and went to college and grad school in the U.S. I met my husband in the U.S. We live here in Grenada now, close to my parents. We visit the U.S. about once a year or so. Reading your intro reminded me quite a bit of my own experiences. Anyway, welcome!