Menopause Metamorphosis

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis

A caller on blogtalk radio would like to know about nettle infusions to prevent osteoporosis.
Susun talks about drinking nourishing herbal infusions as well as eating yogurt.

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call or Skype in: 1-646-929-2463, with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

Strengthening bones

Strengthening bones

An email question is answered on blogtalkradio from a woman who broke her hip and would like to know what she can do to strengthen her bones.
Susun says that it would be easiest to help her if she became a mentor student at wisewomanmentor.com. She then offers some suggestions to get the woman started.

 

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call or Skype in: 1-646-929-2463, with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

Building better bones

Building better bones

by Susun Weed

 

"It is a bone-deep change you are going into, my beloved," counsels Grandmother Growth. "You must open to your very marrow for this transformation. No cell is to remain untouched. You are to open more than you ever dreamed you could open, more than you have opened in birth or in passion. You open now to the breath of mortality as it plays the bone flute of your being. What can you do but dance to the haunting melody, develop a passion for an elegant posture and a long stride?   "Ah, yes," Grandmother Growth smiles rather wantonly. "It would do you well to develop a taste for dark greens tarted with vinegar and mated with garlic. These things will build strong flexible bones to support you as you become Crone." Did you know that your bones are always changing? Every day of your life, some bone cells die and some new bone cells are created. From birth until your early 30s, you can easily make lots of bone cells. So long as your diet supplies the necessary nutrients, you not only replace bone cells that die, you have extras left over to lengthen and strengthen your bones.   Past the age of 35, new bone cells are more difficult to make. Sometimes there is a shortfall: more bone cells die than you can replace. In the orthodox view, this is the beginning of osteoporosis, the disease of low bone mass. By the age of forty, many American women have begun to lose bone mass; by the age of fifty, most are told they must take hormones or drugs to prevent further loss and avoid osteoporosis, hip fracture, and death.   Women who exercise regularly and eat calcium-rich foods enter their menopausal years with better bone mass than women who sit a lot and consume calcium-leaching foods (including soy "milk," tofu, coffee, soda pop, alcohol, white flour products, processed meats, nutritional yeast, and bran). But no matter how good your lifestyle choices, bone mass usually decreases during the menopausal years.   For unknown reasons, menopausal bones slow down production of new cells and seem to ignore the presence of calcium. This "bone-pause" is generally short-lived, occurring off and on for five to seven years. I noticed it in scattered episodes of falling hair, breaking fingernails, and the same "growing pains" I experienced during puberty. I did not see it in a bone scan, because I didn't have one. The idea behind bone scans is a good one: find women who are at risk of broken bones, alert them to the danger, and help them engage in preventative strategies. There's only one problem: bone scans don't find women who are at risk of broken bones, they find women who have low bone density. I would like to help you let go of the idea that osteoporosis is important. In the Wise Woman Tradition, we focus on the patient, not the problem. In the Wise Woman tradition, there are no diseases and no cures for diseases. When we focus on a disease, like osteoporosis, we cannot see the whole woman. The more we focus on one disease, even its prevention, the less likely we are to nourish wholeness and health.   Focusing on osteoporosis, defining it as a disease, using drugs to counter it, we lose sight of the fact that postmenopausal bone mass is a better indicator of breast cancer risk than broken bone risk. The twenty-five percent of postmenopausal women with the highest bone mass are two-and-a-half to four times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those with the lowest bone mass.1 And that hormones which maintain bone mass also adversely affect breast cancer risk. Women who take estrogen replacement (often given to prevent osteoporosis), even for as little as five years, increase their risk of breast cancer by twenty percent; if they take hormone replacement, the risk increases by forty percent.2

 

Read the rest of this article here:
http://www.menopause-metamorphosis.com/An_Excerpt-103-better_bones.htm

Purchase NEW Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way:
http://www.herbalmedicinehealing.com/store/item_view.asp?estore_itemid=1000021

 

*

Bone Health

Hello Susun

thank you for your article on osteoporosis.

Before I went to sleep last night I asked spirit to give me guidance about my health and this morning found your site. As I don't believe in coincidences this must be the right place for me at this time.

I'm taking thyroxine for thyroid
Waiting for surgery to have parathyroid gland removed
Have osteoporosis as a result of p/thyroid gland leaching calcium from my bones

After surgery they say the osteoporosis can be reversed and bone rebuilt. This is what I'm worried about, what will they give me to rebuild bone? When I was finished reading your article I felt sure that bone could be rebuilt naturally, I'm confused about where to start though. Which herbal infusion to use and how often? And is there anything I can be using now to help the bones even before surgery?

I am vegetarian and I don't:
eat processed food
drink
smoke
use sugar

Thank you for your time
Joyfully
Lesley

 

Hello Leslie,

Starting to use any of the infusions on a daily basis will be of great benefit - Comfrey leaf infusions are wonderful for bone health… cooked greens with medicinal vinegars, not eating a low-fat diet, good organic dairy… Susun would also recommend a bit of fatty fish – sardines, salmon… only fermented soy such as miso or tamari… Susun has a lot about bone health in her book, The New Menopausal Years… You may also be interested in taking Susun’s free online course which covers the infusions, medicinal vinegars, etc. and has additional resources on bone health… We’ve linked to some good reading below. Susun is available during her free health hotline, each Tuesday from 7:30pm – 9pm Eastern; 646-929-2463; http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

 

http://nourishingherbalinfusions.com/Comfrey.html

 

http://www.menopause-metamorphosis.com/An_Excerpt-103-better_bones.htm

 

http://www.susunweed.com/Article_Bone_Health.htm

 

blessings,
Kim
Wise Woman Team

www.wisewomanweb.com
www.wisewomanbookshop.com
www.wisewomanuniversity.org
www.wisewomanmentor.com

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call in with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

 

---

If you're ready to go deeper with your herbal studies, join Susun on her new Mentorship website. Get new content weekly such as the expanded herbal ezine, replays of teleseminars, videos, audio of Susuns past lectures, many articles by Susun, and even personal one on one mentorship from Susun.
www.wisewomanmentor.com

Menopause: What's Next?

Menopause: What's Next?

Join Susun as she discusses Menopause: What's Next? Strong Bones, Hale Hearts and Juicy Fun, part 1., on her Time Monk Radio show.
This audio is just over 12 minutes in length.
Enjoy!

---

If you're ready to go deeper with your herbal studies, join Susun on her Mentorship website. Get new content weekly such as the expanded herbal ezine, replays of teleseminars, videos, audio of Susuns past lectures, many articles by Susun, and even personal one on one mentorship from Susun.
www.wisewomanmentor.com

Building better bones

Building better bones

by Susun Weed

 

"It is a bone-deep change you are going into, my beloved," counsels Grandmother Growth. "You must open to your very marrow for this transformation. No cell is to remain untouched. You are to open more than you ever dreamed you could open, more than you have opened in birth or in passion. You open now to the breath of mortality as it plays the bone flute of your being. What can you do but dance to the haunting melody, develop a passion for an elegant posture and a long stride?   "Ah, yes," Grandmother Growth smiles rather wantonly. "It would do you well to develop a taste for dark greens tarted with vinegar and mated with garlic. These things will build strong flexible bones to support you as you become Crone." Did you know that your bones are always changing? Every day of your life, some bone cells die and some new bone cells are created. From birth until your early 30s, you can easily make lots of bone cells. So long as your diet supplies the necessary nutrients, you not only replace bone cells that die, you have extras left over to lengthen and strengthen your bones.   Past the age of 35, new bone cells are more difficult to make. Sometimes there is a shortfall: more bone cells die than you can replace. In the orthodox view, this is the beginning of osteoporosis, the disease of low bone mass. By the age of forty, many American women have begun to lose bone mass; by the age of fifty, most are told they must take hormones or drugs to prevent further loss and avoid osteoporosis, hip fracture, and death.   Women who exercise regularly and eat calcium-rich foods enter their menopausal years with better bone mass than women who sit a lot and consume calcium-leaching foods (including soy "milk," tofu, coffee, soda pop, alcohol, white flour products, processed meats, nutritional yeast, and bran). But no matter how good your lifestyle choices, bone mass usually decreases during the menopausal years.   For unknown reasons, menopausal bones slow down production of new cells and seem to ignore the presence of calcium. This "bone-pause" is generally short-lived, occurring off and on for five to seven years. I noticed it in scattered episodes of falling hair, breaking fingernails, and the same "growing pains" I experienced during puberty. I did not see it in a bone scan, because I didn't have one. The idea behind bone scans is a good one: find women who are at risk of broken bones, alert them to the danger, and help them engage in preventative strategies. There's only one problem: bone scans don't find women who are at risk of broken bones, they find women who have low bone density. I would like to help you let go of the idea that osteoporosis is important. In the Wise Woman Tradition, we focus on the patient, not the problem. In the Wise Woman tradition, there are no diseases and no cures for diseases. When we focus on a disease, like osteoporosis, we cannot see the whole woman. The more we focus on one disease, even its prevention, the less likely we are to nourish wholeness and health.   Focusing on osteoporosis, defining it as a disease, using drugs to counter it, we lose sight of the fact that postmenopausal bone mass is a better indicator of breast cancer risk than broken bone risk. The twenty-five percent of postmenopausal women with the highest bone mass are two-and-a-half to four times more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer than those with the lowest bone mass.1 And that hormones which maintain bone mass also adversely affect breast cancer risk. Women who take estrogen replacement (often given to prevent osteoporosis), even for as little as five years, increase their risk of breast cancer by twenty percent; if they take hormone replacement, the risk increases by forty percent.2

 

Read the rest of this article here:
http://www.menopause-metamorphosis.com/An_Excerpt-103-better_bones.htm

Purchase NEW Menopausal Years the Wise Woman Way:
http://www.herbalmedicinehealing.com/store/item_view.asp?estore_itemid=1000021

 

*

Calcium

Dear Susun,

My name is Patricia Hogan and I am a Midwife in Sacramento CA. Years ago I attended a lecture that you gave here in Sacramento. I took copious notes and now am unable to locate them. You were discussing women going through menopause and what their needs might be. I am particularly interested in your recipe for herbal tea high in Calcium. I remember one component was Oat Straw. Would you be so kind as to e-mail me the other herbs that you put in that tea?

I admire your tenacity and longevity. It is great that you continue the message. Thank You.

Sincerely,
Patricia Hogan

 

Hello Patricia,

Not sure what exactly Susun may have mentioned in a particular lecture - She lists a number of calcium-rich herbs that can be used as infusions, so any of these would be important to include in ones daily diet: Along with oatstraw -- nettle, chickweed, red clover, comfrey leaf and raspberry leaf. She states each cupful will contain 250-300mg of calcium. There is also her Bonny Bony Brew: 1 ounce of nettle, 1 tablespoon of horsetail, 1 tablespoon of sage - again this is an infusion.

Lots of info on calcium in her book the New Menopausal Years. You can also call in during Susun's radio program at blogtalk, each Tuesday from 7:30-9:30pm. Next time will be tomorrow: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed/2013/08/27/ask-herbal-health-expert-susun-weed

Also lots of good stuff at the online forum: www.healingwiseforum.com

blessings,
Kim
Wise Woman Team

www.wisewomanweb.com
www.wisewomanbookshop.com
www.wisewomanuniversity.org
www.wisewomanmentor.com

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call in with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

 

---

If you're ready to go deeper with your herbal studies, join Susun on her new Mentorship website. Get new content weekly such as the expanded herbal ezine, replays of teleseminars, videos, audio of Susuns past lectures, many articles by Susun, and even personal one on one mentorship from Susun.
www.wisewomanmentor.com

Strengthening bones

Strengthening bones

An email question is answered on blogtalkradio from a woman who broke her hip and would like to know what she can do to strengthen her bones.
Susun says that it would be easiest to help her if she became a mentor student at wisewomanmentor.com. She then offers some suggestions to get the woman started.

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call or Skype in: 1-646-929-2463, with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

Dupuytren Contracture

Dupuytren Contracture

A caller on blogtalk radio asks about remedies for Dupuytren Contracture (which is thickening and tightening of tissue under the skin in the hand). Susun talks about comfrey leaf infusion.

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call or Skype in: 1-646-929-2463, with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed

Osteoporosis

Osteoporosis

A caller on blogtalk radio would like to know about nettle infusions to prevent osteoporosis.
Susun talks about drinking nourishing herbal infusions as well as eating yogurt.

---

Join Susun Weed on blogtalkradio, Tuesday nights 7:30-9:30 pm EST. Call in with your questions or email ahead of time to [email protected]. 

Visit the link for more info:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/susunweed