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"Women have to take care of
themselves! Women should approach perimenopause with guts and gusto."
 This is the battle cry of Dr. Nancy Teaff, the
Perimenopause Pioneer. By listening to her you get the real sense she will single handedly
transform the way every person views perimenopause. She has worked hard, through her
private practice and television appearances, to open the eyes of thousands of women and
men to perimenopause. Perimenopause is not some aliment, but a natural progression of
life. "If a woman has the right attitude, then, whatever lies ahead, she’ll be
ready with the best information and health care she can have."
Years before
anyone heard of the word "perimenopause"...
 Dr. Nancy
Teaff wrote the book. Years before other doctors realized what perimenopause was,
Dr. Teaff wrote the book. She was the first to blaze the trail. Her book: Perimenopause Preparing for
the Change is the first book totally dedicated to perimenopause. This book is
recommended by fellow physicians to their patients. As the definitive perimenopausal
survival guide for all women, it has sold over 50,000 copies and is still selling. As one
reader has explained it, "It’s like sitting down with a good friend".
How she began...
A long standing advocate for women’s health and a
reproductive endocrinologist, identified an ever expanding interest from her patients
about perimenopause. As a natural outgrowth of her fertility practice, she saw more and
more women in their late thirties and early forties trying to get pregnant. She found her
tremendous knowledge in fertility medications and therapies would also benefit
perimenopausal women.
The link -
Infertility and hormones
It was no surprise to her why they were having
trouble conceiving. The reason; perimenopause. During this time of hormonal ups and downs,
becoming pregnant can be difficult, if not impossible. She found that her patients who
were young and having trouble conceiving shared something with perimenopausal women.
They both had abnormal levels of their basic reproductive hormones estrogen and
progesterone. Many of these patients were not only women seeking help in conceiving a
child but, help with other complaints like sleeping disturbances, hot flashes and changing
periods. This almost immediate indoctrination, during the early eighties, to the
world of perimenopause and menopause, made Dr. Teaff a well respected and renown Charlotte
expert and now a nationally known expert.
Dr. Teaff has been seeing menopausal and perimenopausal women, for the last 16 years;
first as an obstetrician/gynecologist and currently as a reproductive endocrinologist. As
a fellow of the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, she currently works at the
Nalle Clinic in Charlotte, North Carolina. Fifty percent of her private practice is
devoted to women in perimenopause and menopause.
An idea in the
shower...
How could she share with her knowledge about
perimenopause with her patients and all women? One day in the shower, she realized she
would HAVE to write a book to accomplish this goal. It would take the length of a
book to give all she knew and what her patients would need. This was the birth of her
nationally acclaimed book Perimenopause: Preparing For
the Change.
Dr. Teaff passionately believes in empowering women. She discovered that women who
knew about perimenopause were more likely to do better in perimenopause. She explains,
" Women, who knew about perimenopause, were in a better position to make good health
decisions and stick with them. They also would have more fruitful and active lives
as they aged."
Asking the
questions,
no one would ask...
At the beginning of her career, she found
herself at odds with the medical establishment. During her reproductive endocrinology
fellowship, at Wayne University she found herself asking a lot of questions. Dr.
Teaff couldn’t accept, as many other doctors did, that only one kind of estrogenwas
the only hormone therapy available for women. This concept didn’t make sense to
her. Knowing full well that each woman is different and responds differently this could
not be true. The core of these discussions centeredaround how could one hormone product be
the only one that works for all women? This tenacity and drive led her to research
other options for women going through perimenopause/menopause and fertility
treatments. As a virtual pioneer of her day Dr. Teaff pursued these goals with
veracity and passion. She continues to tackle the ever changing challenges in
women’s health with the same verve. Dr. Teaff breaks the mold.
Dr. Teaff, the perimenopause pioneer, is a motivator and
energizer. She is a devoted mentor for all women both in her private practice and in
books. She knocks down the idea of perimenopause being a sign of getting old instead she
sees it as a sign for us to get better.
"Perimenopause can serve as the wake up call that
motivates a woman to make the changes she’s been talking about making for decades,
and while we might not be delighted when the alarm goes off, we’re actually lucky to
have a built in hormonal impetus to get us moving."
Meet the author
Linda Ojeda, Ph.D
"Her Healthy
Heart" &
"Menopause Without Medicine"
 interview & FREE
excerpt
Alcohol: The Double Edged Sword
  In her latest
book, Her Healthy Heart, Linda again is in front of the health pack. She rings the
warning bell for all women to wake up and recognize that heart disease is as big a problem
for women as it is for men. Not only do women have a six times greater chance of
dying from heart disease when compared with deaths from breast cancer, women
are often misdiagnosed and do not receive the proper heart care. Her Healthy Heart is
filled with practical and useful ways for women to keep their hearts healthy and prevent
heart disease. She also provides natural ways to prevent and reverse heart disease. |
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See Sue & Dr. Teaff
on WFAE in Charlotte
NEW Revised 2nd edition
Perimenopause
Preparing for the Change:
A Guide to the Early Stages of Menopause and Beyond
by Nancy Lee Teaff, Kim Wright
Wiley
 
also see
interview with Dr. Teaff
Excellent non-partisan book This is an excellent book for those who are just
starting to have symptoms and seem to be "falling apart". As the author says,
you may be having symptoms which you haven't put together as being all related to
perimenopause! This book is a wealth of information on ALL choices for handling
perimenopause and menopause. I liked that it covered HRT and herbal/vitamin options,
giving pros and cons of everything.
Natural Woman,
Natural Menopause
by Marcus Laux, Christine Conrad
From a leading expert on naturopathic medicine comes the definitive guide to
natural menopause, featuring all the information women need to know about plant-derived
hormone replacement--the proven safe alternative to Premarin and Provera. 33 line drawings
National media publicity. 20-city radio satellite tour .
Menopause Without
Medicine:
Feel Healthy, Look Younger, Live Longer
by Linda Ojeda
Dr. Ojeda broke new ground when she began to study nonmedical approaches to
menopause more than 10 years ago. Now she has revised and updated her definitive resource,
incorporating the latest findings about estrogen, mood swings, and osteoporosis.
Throughout, Ojeda shows how women can enjoy optimal health at any age by making simple,
inexpensive changes in diet and lifestyle.
 newly revised
for 2000!
Could It
Be...Perimenopause?
by Steven R.
Goldstein, Laurie
Ashner
 see the interview with Dr Goldstein
In clear, supportive prose, Goldstein offers no-baloney advice. "Today's
perimenopausal women has neither the time nor the patience to go through four to fifteen
years of symptoms without relief," he says. He fully delineates the roles of various
hormones, how to determine if you're in perimenopause or not, as well as how to treat the
various symptoms to gain control over your life.
Red Hot Mamas Do
Menopause With Style
by Marie Evans, Ann Shakeshaft
Into all the deadly seriousness surrounding menopause, comes Red Hot Mamas Do
Menopause With Style. Fast-paced text includes tables, pie charts, graphs, timelines,
lists, letters and the best (real!) menopause Web sites. All the topics of menopause,
including (but not limited to) weight gain, insomnia and hot flashes, are made funny and
thereby a little more bearable.
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