Five years ago in September, 2003, I began the Wiley Protocol.  I had been post-menopausal for nearly eight years (no periods) and found myself rapidly declining. For ten years I had been on static, low-dose HRT but it wasn’t keeping up with the speed of my demise.  My face produced a new, permanent wrinkle almost daily, I lost my libido, and my vaginal environment was so dry and the skin so thin, I gave up on sex.  No amount of external lubrication would ameliorate my discomfort.  I suffered from memory loss, both short term and long term, and fought low, to no vitality.  It was an effort to make it through my day. I felt “ill” all waking hours and slept fitfully at night. Self-employed, single and not rich, I was on the road to poverty and an artless death.