Hormone Repair Manual: Every Woman's Guide to Healthy Hormones After 40 Paperback – February 16, 2021

I read this book in one afternoon. Easy to understand, and I found the information very helpful. I purchased a second copy to give away.

Probably the best hormone book I’ve ever read! If you are entering your 40s and you just need information, this is the book for you. It’s an easy read and it gives you lots of tips and recommendations. I use the supplement taurine because of this book.

Dr Briden is one of my favourite physicians and this book is a goldmine of information! Well laid out, easy to read, easy to understand, easy to apply!

So I know to take magnesium and taurine, do these completely eliminate symptoms? No, of course not, but then does anyone really expect some vitamins to completely eliminate their symptoms, the hot flashes, the night sweats etc.? Do they help, who knows, can't hurt, I have tried it, and find it hard to say whether it helps or not, maybe sleep is somewhat better.I have no idea how to take progesterone from this book, as it only seems to talk about women with regular periods or in menopause (12 months without a period I assume). Yea there are somewhat under 2 years of my life this book would have been helpful maybe, before that I had no symptoms at all worth noticing, but now, at 45, periods are too irregular and infrequent. And I think I hate natural progesterone from how it seems to act in my body, wow i might hate that hormone, but maybe that's just me. And I have little idea when estrogen would be appropriate, only in the first year without a period? How on earth would one know? And there are weird parts that talk about how you are still cycling your first year without a period. Excluding hysterectomy which wasn't what was being talked about, what does that even mean? Cycling without a period?It's hard to tell who this book is really for. A great deal of it seems meant for much younger women who ovulate, which isn't going to help many women symptomatic enough to be reading books like this. Well at least the parts of the book, which isn't talking about if 50 is old. I will have been suffering hot flashes since age 44 by that point, that number is the least of my concerns.It has some tips that might be helpful about iodine and breast pain and high estrogen. It encourages a healthy lifestyle and avoiding insulin resistance (more tests to try to get your doctor to order) and gentle intermittent fasting for health. It has some other healthy lifestyle tips that aren't all things you already know. So it's really a good book for health, but for treating perimenopause symptoms I don't know about that. Part of the problem is that doctors seem to know nothing about menopause even if they are women gynecologists old enough for there to be no question if they have gone through menopause themselves. And so we are all out here DESPERATELY trying to treat ourselves via books.LOL at people reviewing the book who aren't even going through this yet. That is their right, but how would they even know how to evaluate this book, whether the recommendations work, or even if it accurately describes what they are going through?ETA: if you take hormones whether estrogen + progesterone or just progesterone it has a good chance of suppressing periods after awhile. Which you might find a happy trade off for symptom relief. But it will make a central theme of the book, distinguishing between perimenopause and menopause pretty much impossible. No way to know if you have reached menopause or if periods are just suppressed due to progesterone. So one is chasing daily symptoms which come and go in days, bad hot flashes, then breast pain etc.. It's too hard to know where one is by that. But even without taking hormones at all, if you having very infrequent periods but not fully menopausal (say a period every 5 months), I have to wonder how much estrogen you could possibly be making.

This is an incredibly helpful guide to perimenopause and menopause. I love Dr Briden's straightforward approach and the fact that she offers both traditional medical treatments for various issues as well as lifestyle and supplement suggestions. This book explained so much about what I've been going through the past few years in perimenopause and makes me grateful that I live at a time where women are actually talking about "the change".

Good solid information for women's health issues.

I don't often write reviews, but I had to for this book because I recommend it to everyone I meet who is going through these changes too, it's been an invaluable guidebook to have at my side. I appreciate the easy-to-understand information about the root causes of symptoms and the evidence-based solutions. Most importantly, using the recommendations in this book, I feel a lot better and am sleeping well again.

I am a 48 year old woman and mother of 6 children. A year ago, I listened to Lara Briden on a podcast interview. I was so impressed with your demeanor and knowledge that I purchased your book Hormone Repair Manual. Over the last few years, I have been struggling with several symptoms that my general doctor and gynecologist were unable to help me with. The first one that concerned me the most was my breast pain, tenderness, sensitivity and swelling. I decided to try and find my own answers and Lara’s book gave me answers. I purchased Violet Daily and it has changed my life. I had previously purchased 3 different iodines looking for help and Violet Daily was the answer. My next concern was my hot flashes. They were constant. I grabbed your book and began to re-read all about hot flashes. I purchased magnesium Calm, Remifemin and Taurine. I started with Remifemin and saw a change. Then, at night I started taking Calm and Taurine and it's like magic. I am so grateful to you and your knowledge. I feel liberated from some of my perimenopausal symptoms. Thank you!