| Passage to Power: Natural Menopause Revolution |  | Author: Leslie Kenton
Publisher: Vermilion
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Pages: 544
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.8 x 1.5
ISBN: 0091815940
EAN: 9780091815943
ASIN: 0091815940
Publication Date: September 3, 1998
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Designed to help women who fear the menopause or who are suffering from menopausal troubles, this text tackles the science of menopause and scrutinizes the practices commonly associated with. Leslie Kenton questions the benefits of HRT, and examines the powers of natural progesterone.
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Why wasn't I told abot this book before?!! March 11, 2010
Bezzy (Donyatt, Somerset, UK)
This book is full of insightful knowledge and helpful advice, not only for those of us at menopause, but for women in earlier life phases, those approaching menopause and those who are still struggling the other side of this life changing phase. The book was recommended to me by a counsellor and what an eye-opener it's been. It's answered all kinds of questions for me, as well as affirming thoughts and ideas I had been fostering. It covers things like the misguided use of oestrogens; the powerful sway pharmaceutical companies hold over our modern medical practitioners; and how patriarchal society dis-empowers women - even those that appear to be succeeding in our male dominated society. It offers alternatives to the medically accepted 'treatment' of menopause and ways that as women we can claim back our power, as we go through this transformative stage in our lives. I would urge EVERY woman to read this book - I'll be gifting it to many of my friends and relatives.
 Although somewhat dated a beacon of positivity January 7, 2010
Lady Fancifull (London UK)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
Kenton is an excellent, clear and passionate writer. When she wrote this book over 10 years ago we were deep in a dark age view of menopause, where an atmosphere of fear hung over this natural process of a woman's life, and the pharmaceutical companies were pushing a big sell on their 'wonderdrug', HRT.
Kenton (and others, for example, in this country people like Marilyn Grenville New Natural Alternatives To HRT and Kitty Campion Menopause Naturally and across the pond Christiane Northrup The Wisdom of Menopause: The Complete Guide to Women's Health: The Complete Guide to Physical and Emotional Health During the Change ) were strong voices arguing against the blanket prescription of HRT for women 'of a certain age' and the medicalisation of menopause, which the drugs companies were fostering.
The final result of PROPER studies into HRT vindicated what Kenton and others were saying, in terms of risks and benefits. So, much of Kenton's book is no longer relevant, since most women are now unlikely to be prescribed HRT 'for ever' routinely.
Where her book is as current and timely as ever is in its excellent lifestyle advice and its expression that a woman's attitude towards her own menopause (and indeed, her culture's attitude towards menopause) will also affect her experience of the process.
Where I personally draw back from awarding the fifth star is in Kenton's driven push of 'natural progesterone' As other writers - and, significantly, those others are PRACTITIONERS - eg Grenville, Campion - note, the trumpeting of 'natural progesterone' is itself as worrying as the HRT push. We are still talking blanket prescription of hormone here, and 'natural' progesterone is at the end of the day extracted, albeit from plants rather than pregnant mares. Isolated hormones are extremely powerful, and the arguments against blanket use - not tested, for long enough, on significant numbers of women - are the same as the arguments Kenton et al rightfully levelled against HRT!
Passage to Power May 30, 2009
S. Downes (UK)
This helped me to start making informed decisions about alternative and medical therapies on my journey into menopause - and has helped me to see that this is the beginning of something exciting rather than something depressing and confusing. Thank you.
A positive view of the menopause! February 25, 2009
Wendy Green (Co. Durham, UK)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Though this book is now a little dated, what I really like about it is that it offers a very positive view of the menopause. It also looks at the natural alternatives to HRT, which many women are keen to learn more about.
Wendy Green Author of 50 Things You Can Do Today to Manage the Menopause (Personal Health Guides)
Debunks the menopause myth April 25, 2007
Lee Ann Day-Whistler (Devon, England)
12 out of 12 found this review helpful
Leslie Kenton has long been a pioneer in the field of health and beauty advocating natural paths to optimum life.
To use or not to use HRT is a personal choice of each woman but women are often denied all of the knowledge needed to make an informed decision. I feel that we are being misled by the medical prefession who have amassed large amounts of money by selling us the dream of immortality, or at the very least extended youth!
This is a deep and controversial subject, not least when you learn that one of the most commonly used HRT presecriptions is prematin, so named as it comes form the urine of pregnanbt mares. These same mares are kept pregnant, their offspring removed, so that we can partake of this substance. To me this violation of a female goes against the idea of women as nurturing and caring.
If you read this book you will learn that in some parts of the world women have no menopause symptoms and it is our western way of life and programming that lead us to the conclusion that getting old has to be painful and unrewarding.
This book is well researched and written but not always that easy to read. There is so much information that you can sometimes feel overwhelmed. But it offers us better methods of dealing with the menopause and gives us back our freedom of choice.
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