Female Brain Gone Insane: An Emergency Guide For Women Who Feel Like They Are Falling Apart

Great book , easy to understand

I really appreciate how this book simplifies the self-treatment of perimenopause symptoms with bioidentical progesterone and amino acids. I'd had great past results from 5htp as recommended in The Mood Cure. (That book is much more comprehensive on aminos.) But I didn't even know until I bought this that this book was about aminos. I was simply looking for answers about hormonal balance for my perimenopausal symptoms. This book did a nice job of explaining how low progesterone and low serotonin combine for hormonal moodswings. Her sample supplement plan is sound, although my cross-references have me starting with progesterone only once per day. I'm torn. On the one hand, this book is a much easier read when you're overwhelmed. You can get a good regime out of it. On the other hand, reading The Mood Cure and John Lee's What Your Dr Won't Tell You will give you a more moderate plan. I'd say start here, then double check details and contraindications with the other books. UPDATE. Giving it 5 stars now because I got my answers and feel amazing. The book suggests getting hormones, DHEAS, and thyroid tested via ZRT labs. Since I suspected I might have adrenal fatigue in addition to estrogen dominance, I sought out ZRT labs and got tested without a Dr. by joining Canary Club. BINGO. I learned that indeed, my cortisol and testosterone were below normal. Also that I was under-dosing my progesterone by following what John Lee's book said (1x day) instead of what Female Brain Gone Insane suggested (2x day.) Additionally, I learned that my thyroid is fine, so I don't have any lingering doubt if that was part of my problem. So I added all the adrenal fatigue supplements in addition to Mia's basic supplement plan. I also took a calculated risk and added a very low dose of regular DHEA (in addition to the Keto she recommends) because I was hoping that would increase my testosterone a bit. After 2 months, I feel amazing. I feel normal again. I am motivated again. This book gave the keys I needed to get myself sorted out.

A great read with a lot of insight into what's really going on in a woman's brain!

Bought this book for a friend. She said it was a good read and helpful.

About 18 years ago I entered Hell, also known as Perimenopause. It is not hell for every woman, but it is hell for enough women. This book is a pioneering book in my opinion. I went from 39 years old to crazy seemingly overnight. Then, somehow when no doctor or specialist or anyone knew anything; some way, I don't remember how, I found Mia Lundin. She held my hand over the phone.....sort of speak. Back then she lived in California and I in Florida. Her recommendations got me on the road to survive this thing. Gave me an idea what was happening and ....saved my life. Literally. I was completely ignorant about " The change", anger became rage, fear became anxiety, sadness became depression with homicidal and suicidal ideations....I called it an internal Holocaust. Mia Lundin was ahead of her time. This is my seventh book, because everytime I buy one I give it away to any young woman I meet or work with, as I wished someone had done it for me before I turned 39. Female Brain Gone Insane might not be the be all end all on the female hormonal insanity that the ovaries grand finally can be, but it is,in my opinion a phenomenal starting point. And for some women it offers all the guidance they will need to travel this transitional journey with dignity and some sanity. I'm postmenopausal now, but the hormones are on a different stage of settling down. Of finding their new normal....it takes time....and so I find myself reaching out for Mia's book one more time to help me thru this phase, cause the medical industry it is just catching on......shame on them. Too many women have gone thru tremendous pain of every type you can imagine, cause hormonal imbalance due to the ovaries grand finally it's not even taught in med school. But the world is waking up, and the topic is hot in podcasts and social media, cause a lot of women are screaming for help, and it's getting podcasters a lot of views also known as money. I am so thankful that informed newer and future generations of women won't have to go thru the hell women of the long ago past, and not so long ago as me, went thru. They will not have to suffer thru it, if they choose to stay informed. Thank you Mia.