Menopause Bootcamp Quotes

“When we deny who we are, we abandon ourselves and the unique experience we deserve. I know that it’s really scary and painful for some people, but it truly is so much better to be who you are. We waste so much energy on trying to be something we’re not.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“the physical and sexual well-being of men over fifty is paramount, while women over fifty are desexualized and overlooked,”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“There are hundreds of drugs on the market, including chemotherapy drugs, that are not calibrated for women because there were no women subjects in the original drug trials, and the differences in side effects don’t rise to such urgency that the FDA is going to review them for gender disparities.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“Since the time of the ancient Greeks, doctors have known that women respond differently to medicine than men. However, women have historically been, and often continue to be, excluded from clinical trials. Why is that? Menstruation.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“There’s reason to believe that the hormone progestin used in standard low-dose birth control may carry a small, but not insignificant, increased breast cancer risk.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“We waste so much energy on trying to be something we’re not.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“We’re learning more and more from women’s stories and from research that doctors have a pattern of not taking a woman’s needs or her pain seriously.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“Well, the medical system has a long and disgusting history of overlooking, ignoring, and manipulating women. Research studies have for decades not included women in their pool of test subjects, which means that for years we’ve been subjected to treatments whose safety and efficacy have been proven only for men.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“If I have learned anything in my fifty-five years, it’s that women are expected to look and behave in a certain way. And letting our hair go gray means “letting ourselves go”; in other words, owning our actual age is seen as some sort of defeat or lack of interest in our beauty.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age

“to a lot of other people, having gray hair is like saying “Hi, I’m Suzanne, and I’m an old woman.”
― Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, Menopause Bootcamp: Optimize Your Health, Empower Your Self, and Flourish as You Age