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Page 5 of 8 Christiane Northrup is an Ob/Gyn and, more importantly, a woman. She’s written four books, all with a “spiritual” bent, which is quite remarkable. There aren’t a lot of spiritual Ob/Gyns out there who talk about "emotional incision and draining". She’s very clear in her books on peri-menopause and menopause that "many illnesses are the end result of emotions that have been stuffed, unacknowledged and unexperienced for years."She does prescribe bio-identical hormones, and like all the others, usually estriol (not FDA approved) and natural progesterone creams in the template of the Standard of Care synthetics. However, she is very forward thinking in her views on post-diagnosis cancer patients and BHRT. She’s open. She firmly believes that menopause is an emotional and psychological rite of passage with a very bright light on the other side. Wiley would say that that light, for some of us, may very well be the light at the end of the tunnel on hormones with no rhythm or cycle not ending in a period. The way Dr. Northrup prescribes BHRT is really pretty traditional, but she speaks a very “new age” patois. Her most famous patient, Oprah Winfrey had palpitations and was treated with thyroid medication, probably because Dr. Northup knew palpitations are a classic feature of a panic attack which is a symptom of hyperthyroidism in the presence of low estrogen feedback (reference 3 , reference 4 , reference 5 ). But, when asked in an interview on the website Power Surge.com, “why do you suppose there's such a high incidence of panic attacks during menopause?” Dr. Northrup responded, “Because the kundalini energy rises in menopause and hits the heart chakra. Any unfinished business related to grief, sorrow, rage, will make itself known at menopause. That's why panic attacks are part of the body's wisdom - they cry out, "What about me and my life" (reference 6 ). She didn’t mention her extensive knowledge of endocrinology. Dr. Northrup has said, “The female human body has various stages when you are more apt to be in touch with your spirit or your wisdom. One of those is just before your menstrual period is about to begin; one is during birth and postpartum and during breast feeding; and the last period is during menopause, including peri-menopause and the years leading up to menopause”. She and Wiley agree on threshold-driven turning points in a woman’s life, but Wiley would tell you that they are endocrine, that hormone levels drive your emotional life and spiritual evolution. The quote opening her website, DrNorthrupMD.com says, “We’re meant to create and to grow and to change. In order to do that, we sometimes have to go through discomfort.” Of course as you age “discomfort” is natural (not so sure about character building), but getting wet when it rains is natural, too, but, some of us use umbrellas.
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