Why should I seek advise from a health care professional when...

I have clients that say to me “I see many TV and Internet advertisements for products that will treat all of my menopausal symptoms. They say that my symptoms will disappear like magic if I just take THEIR product.” With all of these ads and their products out on the Internet, why should I seek advice and care from a professional when I can just buy the other stuff?

Well…you can try it. It might help. And it might not. Sometimes you need a combination of things to work together. And sometimes you need to take things in certain combinations for a short time and then change all together. Will the Internet tell you how what supplement to take when, how much and other supplements you should or should NOT combine their product with?

With menopause there is a "dance of the hormones" that occurs and you often need to vary when and how much to take to get to the balance point. This dance is dynamic…moving all the time.

I have this client. She has bought some of these products over the Internet and from ads in magazines. Now, she has a back room full of half full bottles of stuff that didn't work or made her worse than she did before, which can be dangerous. In the long run she wasted a lot of time and money because what she really needed were the custom formulas I helped her with. These are formulas that are designed just for her and her problems.

Sometimes at the beginning of the menopausal transition you can get by with over the counter remedies. As the journey deepens and lengthens how your symptoms are dealt with becomes much more complex and requires closer monitoring, sometimes you need subtle changes in your menopausal program on a weekly basis. You likely cannot get this over the Internet and definitely not from magazine ads.

Buying products that don't work isn't cost or time effective and more importantly you do not want to do harm that takes weeks or even months to undo. This is NOT my idea of a good investment in your health.