Getting older can be brutal—women gain weight, lose their
sex drive, experience hot flashes, suffer memory loss, become
short-tempered, find it difficult to sleep, and on and on. It’s
not so easy for men, either—they start to lose energy and stamina
as they age, too (and they have to live with women going through
menopause). After years of being thin and fit and full of energy,
Suzanne herself encountered the “Seven Dwarfs of
Menopause”—Itchy, Bitchy, Sweaty, Sleepy, Bloated,
Forgetful, and All-Dried-Up. Instead of living out the rest of her life
cranky, sleep-deprived, and libido-less, Suzanne set out to discover how
she could get her mind, body, and life back and banish those pesky
dwarfs for good.
The result is The Sexy Years: Discover the
Hormone Connection—The Secret to Fabulous Sex, Great Health, and
Vitality, for Women and Men. In this passionately argued and
enormously practical book, Suzanne supports her own research and
experiences with the expertise of leading doctors in the field of
women’s and men’s health and sexuality to create an
inspiring, accessible call-to-arms to women to radically rethink how
they approach life after fifty, and give them the tools to turn their
lives around.
Suzanne has discovered that the second half of
life has been more rewarding, fun, and purposeful than her younger
years. The key to her happiness? Taking natural bioidentical hormones.
Natural hormones, which mimic the hormones produced in our own bodies
that are almost completely lost with aging, are the answer to the
symptoms of menopause that plague women. Recent findings from the
medical community show that synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
may be harmful to women—thus, thousands of women are looking for
what else they can do to alleviate their symptoms. In The Sexy
Years, Suzanne comes to the rescue with a step-by-step plan and
detailed information about how women can take control of their health,
for themselves and for their men, including:
• What the
differences are between synthetic and bioidentical hormones, and why
bioidentical hormones help women lose weight, reinvigorate their sex
lives, and fight the symptoms of aging
• How doctors do not
receive adequate training about hormones and are slaves to the
pharmaceutical industry, and what questions every woman must ask her
physician about hormone replacement therapy and her health
•
How Suzanne turned her life around, with information about how often she
visits her doctor, blood work, what hormones she takes, how to get
these hormones, and more
• What male menopause, or andropause,
is and how men can also take bioidentical hormones and regain the energy
they had in their youth
• What a variety of specialists think
about natural hormones, health, and sexuality—Suzanne shares the
best advice from these doctors and provides a resource list of
physicians and pharmacies
With bioidentical hormone replacement
therapy, Suzanne has found the fountain of youth, the elixir that has
made her feel thirty years old again. In combination with her Somersize
diet and fitness plan, which she also writes about here, Suzanne has
never felt better. The beauty of growing older, she maintains, is that
you can combine the wisdom of age with the vitality of youth. Suzanne
makes it perfectly clear how women and men can regain their zest for
life at any age. These really are the sexy years!