It is extremely interesting. It is all about our bodies and the 'standard of care' in the medical field. How doctor's just treat symptoms and how the pharmaceutical companies are your real doctors as the call the shots.

She interviews 15 doctors, cutting edge doctors, who really care about the way we feel and the answers are so simple.

How the standard blood tests they give us are not accurate for the thyroid reading 80% OF THE TIME!!! or the rest of the tests.

These doctors are treating women and men with biodentical hormones, after LISTENING to their patients. It is very enlightening and reading these opinions makes me believe that Fibro is a manifestation of hormone imbalance. This is my opinion. It is said, if one is off they are all off. When we deplete our hormones...we're dead.

There is a member here who visited one of these cutting edge drs and was hormonely off and was treated and now feels great. The biodentical hormones are not from the drug co's, they are natural from plants, etc that are IDENTICAL to our own. We start losing them in our 20's and just get worse.

Too much info to put here, but it is definitely worth a look at. Dr. Erika supports them, too. Unfortunately, the drug companies are trying to get rid of them (they are losing $) and the fda is kissing Wyth's a$$ by entertaining the idea of banning these natural hormones.

There is a Dr's office in Tampa I plan to go to, soon as I get $. They check all your hormones with sensitive tests, but if you have symptoms of a certain deficiency, they will treat you for it.

Anyway, hope you all give it a look see. Nothing to lose

Speaking of S. Somers, I'm reading her book, "Eat, Cheat, and Lose Weight. It's an interesting program. It's all about combining foods a certain way so your body can process them better and boost your metabolism (she's written a couple of other books about this too).

So, I'm considering "Somersizing" for a while to see if that changes how I feel. One thing it's supposed to do is regulate insulin, which, you guessed it, is a hormone. Hmmmn.

I don't know about that doc, but I do know that as soon as you start having any minor symptom (such as not feeling well again) you are supposed to call the doc so they can tweak your doses. To be fair, I have read that from every doc I looked into, and SS's book also states this as very important.

This concept to me, makes the most sense as an explanation.

I cannot get my arms around the explanations of FMS, you have symptoms....nothing causes them....that doesn't make sense. When my car is sluggish, or rattling...THERE IS A CAUSE!! Who ever said to a car owner, it's just smoking and rattling, no reason.

Medical schools are still not 'up' on the times. We get more toxins in our body in one day, than people who died in the 60's did in their whole lives. Add to that all the medication we take, hormone laced food. We eat 8-9 pounds of preservatives every year, in fact when we die our bodies are not even decomposing naturally anymore.

For me, there is a doc in Tampa who follows the TS Wiley protocal on bio-identical hormones who I am going to this month (hopefully) The whole panal of testing, the medical consult, after diag consult and 1 months treatment package is $750.

If you need the estrogen or progesterone, or whichever, it's $37.50 for a month, each.

http://www.fibroandfatigue.com/hormonereplacement.php

http://coaches.aol.com/wellness/feature/_a/interview-with- suzanne-somers/20061103090809990001

Post edited by: HAMPTON7026, at: 03/05/2008 10:47