The Wisdom of Menopause

by Christiane Northrup

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  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  CHRISTIANE NORTHRUP, M.D., trained at Dartmouth Medical School and Tufts New England Medical Center. She is a board-certified obstetrician/gynecologist with more than twenty years of clinical and medical teaching experience. As past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, and past Clinical Assistant Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology through the University of Vermont College of Medicine’s program at Maine Medical Center, she appreciates the need for a partnership between the best of conventional and complementary medicine. Dr. Northrup is the author of the NEW YORK TIMES bestselling book Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom and Mother-Daughter Wisdom—nominated for the prestigious Quill Award, voted number one by the editors at Amazon.com in both the “Health, Mind & Body” and “Parenting & Families” categories, and recognized as one of the 50 Best Books of 2005. She is also the author of The Secret Pleasures of Menopause (Hay House, 2008) and The Secret Pleasures of Menopause Playbook (Hay House, 2009). She has hosted seven successful public television specials and her work has been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show, The Today Show, Nightly News with Brian Williams, MSNBC, Rachael Ray, The View, Good Morning America, PBS, and ABC’s 20/20. Through her monthly e-letter (Women’s Health Wisdom), her website (www.drnorthrup.com), her Facebook page, her weekly radio show Flourish (www.hayhouseradio.com), and her subscription-based online Women’s Wisdom Community, Dr. Northrup shares cutting-edge information about health and flourishing with women worldwide. She lives in Maine.