Fast Forward to 2009

OK, I could keep listing all of my adventures in "hormone survival land" and or I could just fast forward from 2004, telling you I saw 5 MORE heathcare professionals that I spent thousands of dollars and hours listening to their "take" on the subject.

I have taken courses and am certified in nutritional therapy. This includes hormone, cortisol and DHEA testing. So, I know quite a bit on the subject.

But, today in 2009 I am still suffering from nightsweats and hot flashes and weight gain. I have been very sucessful helping others get their mean-o-pause syptoms under control and or seen them vanish but have not been able to rid myself.

I have to share with you my latest discovery; I am very excited to learn that my pituitary gland was on the fritz energetically. Now, that might not sound like good news but it is! And when I tell you it was my bluetooth headset inteferring with it you might be skeptical. That's OK, you should question things. I know I do and I was NOT wanting this to be the answer. But it is a problem.

Take a look at the flash video on this site: http://www.mybiopro.com.

So, the reason this is good news is that the pituitary controls the hormones....and so since I have been energetically disrrupting mine it does not matter how many, perfectly compounded bio identical hormones I shove into my body the gland that regulates them is shut down. This is HUGE. It will be a journey to repair this but at least I am on the right track now. I wish it were as simple as not using the bluetooth anymore and or just attaching the bio-pro device but since our bodies are finely tuned machines I have some repair to do.

2004, Nov. - my primary

I turned to my primary care physcian and asked him to run some blood work and help me figure this thing out. He did his best to help me but it was beyond his scope. I went to a Endocrinologist at Scripps but he was ALL about using the artifical hormones and had no interest in the bio-identical route. Bye- Bye Dr. Bailey

2004, August - the Berman Clinic

OK, so finally, I thought I had a real shot at getting some state of the art, top of their field, HELP. I got my appointment scheduled, drove up to Los Angeles and poured out my reports and my heart to Dr. Bermans's assistant. Kinda anticlamatic for me. But I thought, OK, she's got to be good! not so much. I was sad and dissapointed again. I learned a little bit about the sublingual approach from them so it was not all a waste of time and money but whew! I shelled out allot of dough for that education. They shut down the clinic shortly after my visit. They gave no reason or comments. Sweet, back on the hunt again.

Women To Women Jan 2004

I almost forgot I had tried another brand of vitamins and supplements, Women to Women, before going to the wacky local compounding pharmacy. BTW, not all compounding Pharmacies are wacky, it just takes awhile to find to the good ones.

The Women to Women supplements were a complete waste of time and money. Nicely developed program for someone with a mild case of peri-menopause symptoms but mine were raging.

2004, June - the bio-identical supplementation from a pharmacy

I heard from a client that she had discovered that she was having a weight issue; she couldn't lose any no matter that she spent two hours a day at the gym.... She said she found a local pharmacy that tested her hormone levels and mixed up (a compounding pharmacy) the bio-identical hormones that she needed to get balanced. Since beginning the regime she was losing weight and felt great.

I was very excited to hear this and I contacted the pharmacy and got started on my journey. The pharmacy also had a lab they worked with and a Doctor that writes the prescriptions based on the lab results. You never see the Doctor, just his name appears on the compounding pharmacy prescriptions. I found out that you deal with the Pharmacists if you have a question or concern. Well, that was the beginning of the disaster for me.

On one day you might call the Pharmacy and you would get a female Pharmacist and any other day it might be the male Pharmacist. Or vice versa. Either way, they both had very different ideas about how to tweak your regime. It was a night mare. One might suggest you take more Progesterone and the other might totally disagree and insist you should increase Estrogen. And they would argue between themselves while you were hanging on the phone.

In addition to that they prescribed a substance called Isocort. I felt great at first and it really gave me a boost in energy but it really packed on the pounds around my waist. And I have never gotten rid of them. So be careful!

Isocort is designed to increase cortisol levels but with that comes the fat. As with the Pharmacy's other blunders they must have had me on too much of the Isocort.

Needless to say I was dissapointed with my results and quit the Pharamacy and went in search for someone a little more stable and experienced.

Journey to better health

I am like a great many people that grew up and lived life to it's fullest. Youthful daring adventures, experiments, too much partying, over indulgence of things that were known to not be very healthy. All in all I was probably conservative comparatively.

Now, I look back on that and other parts of my life and realize there were shaping me to be the person I am today. OK, not so bad, but the damage to the physical body needs to be undone.

That is what this second half of my life is going to be about. Join me on my journey.

When it all started

I began having mean-o-pause symptoms in 2003. I heard of Suzanne Somers drive to find a way to balance hormones and the nasty mean-o-pause symptoms naturally.


So, I began reading her books and contacting the physcians listed in her book. I found that many of them were already not taking any new clients.

It was such a storm, such a HOPE of relief for so many women. I had heard other women speak of the issues; the night sweat and the hot flashes and I laughed at all the jokes. It's not all that funny when it hits you. I was not prepared for the misery that rains down on many aspects and eventually all aspects of your life.


I read everything I could get my hands on. I tried many things and some worked and others did not.


I am here to help others now. I have been trained and certified and have plenty of years of on the job training.