Important Women's Health Issues

Dr. Erika's Journey

When I opened my first private practice 25 years ago I wanted to be part of my patients' every day lives and have a role in keeping them well. My practice grew and began to reflect my unique philosophy that the absence of disease does not equal wellness. Being well means feeling well, and feeling well definitely does not include worrying about being sick.

The more I practiced medicine, the more I focused on finding the source of this fear and worry, eliminating the possibility of disease and then treating the root cause. Women of all ages came to me with the same issue: they looked healthy, their test results came back normal, yet they felt miserable. The more experienced I became, the more I realized the common role of hormones in all of these women's situations. I too had been through the depression before my periods, incapacitating cramps and migraines due to birth control pills, the night sweats after the birth of my first daughter, my loss of sex drive after the birth of both daughters. I worried every month when I felt lumps in my breasts before my period. I was sure they were breast cancer and I'd never live to see my kids grow up.

I embarked on a program of standard hormone replacement therapy but felt increasingly miserable with every passing day. One moment I was on top of the world, the next I was crying. And the bloating! My clothes just didn't fit, my body was changing shape, and my sex drive disappeared as my night sweats and sleep deprivation increased.

Why wasn't there a viable solution to reducing the menopause symptoms? After 20 years of practicing medicine, I found this to be ridiculous. After all, menopause is just another change in hormone balance. I became determined to find a solution.

The only medications that consistently worked were natural hormones. The miracle of medically supervised natural hormone treatment uses estrogen and progesterone made from yams and soy by processes of concentration and purification. Safe, easy to administer and consistently effective, natural hormones worked. Creating and fine-tuning my own program for the administration of natural hormones became my mission. The patients who joined me in the use of natural hormones reported almost miraculous improvements in all aspects of their lives. Gone were the hot flashes, the night sweats, the mood swings, the bloating. Lo and behold, even our sex drive returned! Initially, I thought all women meant menopausal women, but that turned out to be far too limited. If natural hormones worked on menopausal women, why wouldn't they work on young women as well?

The more women of different ages with different symptoms came to see me, the more convinced I became of the continuum of hormone changes we are subjected to at all ages. Natural hormone treatment was invariably successful and had none of the side effects associated with other types of medications. That was because natural hormones treated the root cause of the problems with substances closely resembling the missing or out-of-balance hormones our bodies make. There were no potentially harmful, synthetic substitutes in this program.

The Hormone Solution helps you take charge of your own health, giving you the knowledge you need to understand how hormone imbalance affects your every day life and, subsequently, all the existing options for restoring balance and health.

The decision to use natural hormones as part of an integrated program of diet, exercise, and lifestyle should come from a position of knowledge and strength. Since hormone imbalance is not limited to women only, men's issues are also addressed. Don't suffer any longer. The Hormone Solution will change your life.