My name is Sindi Holmlund and I've been in the alternative health field for over fifty years. I formulate and manufacture toxin, poison and petrochemical free personal care and health and beauty products, I’m an herbalist, a researcher, a writer, I owned a clinical diagnostic laboratory for testing hormones, and I was a menopausal woman.

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At age twenty seven I developed chronic vaginal infections, cystic ovaries, and my breasts were always swollen and sore. About age thirty two I started experiencing extreme fatigue, long, heavy periods with spotting all month, rapid weight gain, acne, my breasts became even more sore, low blood sugar, sugar cravings (especially chocolate) and an inability to conceive.

 

These symptoms continued for about seven years. Then some new ones joined in, and life became a nightmare for me and my husband. I either cried or screamed at the drop of a hat, everything my husband did was wrong and I continually threatened to divorce him, I started having horrible dizzy spells, my periods became lighter and I started skipping them, my skin aged practically overnight, my vision started changing, I grew a fatty tumor on my shoulder the size of an egg, my hair started falling out, I gained thirty five pounds, the muscle tissue on my body disintegrated, I couldn't sleep, my memory started taking vacations, I couldn't concentrate, the sugar cravings doubled, I would wake up several times in the night because I was too hot and throw off my covers, only to wake a little while later to put them back on because I was now too cold. My breasts became so painful that often the weight of them (and I was small breasted) brought tears to my eyes when I got out of bed in the morning.

 

Because the second set of symptoms was different from the first and had started seven years later, I had no idea they were related. I also had no idea what was causing them. So for six years I went from doctor to doctor, spending thousands of dollars, trying to find out what was wrong with me, but NONE of them had the answer.

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Oh they said they did, and sold me thousands of dollars worth of supplements that did absolutely nothing! It wasn’t until around age 44 when I started having mild hot flashes that I realized something was going on with my hormones, but I still didn’t know that all my symptoms were hormonal. The problem was, the doctors didn’t know it back then either.

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I'm knowledgeable about many things but hormones was a subject in which I was completely ignorant. So I went to the library (no internet back then) and checked out every book I could find about hormonal changes.

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All they had were books about ‘menopause’, but that didn’t fit me because I was still having periods, and they only listed hot flashes and night sweats as accompanying symptoms. I took all the books back and went to the medical book store at a local college and bought books about anatomy and physiology, endocrinology (hormones) and Tabor’s medical dictionary. It was a grueling learning curve because I had to learn so many technical and medical words, but 6 months later I fully understood that all my symptoms were caused by hormone decline, and that decline had started at the end of puberty!

What I also understood was that the subjects of how your body works and hormone decline are two things that you cannot afford to be ignorant about, because ignorance in either subject can cost you your life!

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In studying these subjects, I learned a lot of information I wished I had known when I was 18. If someone had told me back then, what I'm going to tell you now, I would never have suffered the way I did for so long. So in the hopes that I can spare others what I went through, I've written a series of booklets that explain everything you need to know to navigate the world of the HRT (Hormone Replacement Therapy) industry. Please save yourself a lot of time, money and frustration by reading them all.

 

I want to share what I know with as many women as possible so they can recognize when hormone changes begin (and it's NOT when you think it is) and know what to do about them.

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Thanks or reading,
Sindi Holmlund