The Midlife Bible
The essential guide to the Women's Midlife Journey: what EVERY Woman 35-65+ needs to know, that your doctor likely isn't explaining to you thoroughly.
787 pages on your thyroid, your gut, your adrenals, your sex hormones, your labs, and the questions nobody is asking you. Written by a Woman whose labs came back 'normal' for 7 years while she kept getting sicker.
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Does any of this sound like you?
'This is you being tired and achy and foggy. This is not getting old, and low libido is not getting old. That's nonsense.'From The Midlife Bible
Nobody sits you down and explains what happens in a Woman's body from 35 onward.
There is no appointment for it and no class. Most Women learn about Midlife the hard way, through unnecessary suffering.
For about 7 years, my labs came back 'normal,' and kind, well-meaning doctors read them that way. And I kept getting sicker. My hair was falling out, I was bloated after I ate, my joints hurt, and my zest for life was fading. Underneath it was Hashimoto's, SIBO, a leaky gut, low stomach acid, a flatlined cortisol curve, and sex hormones that were completely depleted. Nobody had looked at my thyroid closely.
I hold a Master's in Health Education, I have been an educator for over 25 years, and I am a trained Ayurvedic practitioner. And I still did not know what was going on in my own body. Learning it cost me tens of thousands of dollars. I put myself through trainings, worked with skillful Functional Medicine practitioners for 2 years, and came back into myself. I did it so the path is far easier for you.
Today I live feeling fully Alive and flourishing with Hashimoto's. I wrote this book for you, and for my Mother, who moved through a very difficult Perimenopause and Menopause with no map.
This is the Midlife talk, grown all the way up.
I could fit 1 hour 43 minutes into the talk. This book holds everything else.
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- Start 16 pages
Introduction, and how to use this book. Why I wrote it, who it is for, and where to begin. - Part 1: The 5 Midlife Crises 18 pages
Why your doctor is likely missing critical parts of your care. - Part 2: The Physical Layer 597 pages
The layer that answers to numbers.- Opener The Physical Layer, and Inflammation (16 pages)
- 2A What you are feeling: 11 symptom chapters, from fatigue and hot flashes to sleep, brain fog, and bloating (112 pages)
- 2B The drivers: sugar, and stress (35)
- 2C Your hormones, 1 by 1, and Hormone Therapy 101 (54)
- 2D Your gut: stomach acid, permeability, SIBO, liver and kidneys, root causes (80)
- 2E Autoimmunity and your thyroid, the 90-day protocol, and Remission (104)
- 2F Your body, system by system: pelvic floor, breasts, bones, heart, teeth, eyes (71)
- 2G Putting it all together: genes, the mimics, your Lab Wish List, cortisol, supplements (125)
- Part 3: The Mental, Emotional, Relational, and Spiritual Layers 57 pages
Memory, brain protection, identity, relationships, and meaning. - Part 4: Bringing It All Together 99 pages
The summary, my story, a resource directory, references, and 3 appendices.
What each part gives you
Your symptoms, decoded
Burnout and fatigue, sleep that breaks at 3 AM, hot flashes and night sweats, heavy or irregular periods, brain fog, anxiety and mood, weight and belly fat, bloating, hair, skin and nails, aching joints, and sex, intimacy and desire. Each one takes apart what can be behind it, how to test for it, and what helps.
Plus the Mimics: what else these symptoms could actually be.
Your hormones, 1 by 1
Progesterone, estrogen, testosterone, cortisol, and pregnenolone, and how they talk to each other. Then Hormone Therapy 101: the forms, from patches and gels to pills and vaginal estrogen, the history behind the 2002 headlines, the myths, the timing question, and how to prepare for your appointment.
The 3 stages of the transition, and the timeline nobody gave you.
Your gut, your thyroid, and Autoimmunity
Low stomach acid, a leaky gut lining, SIBO and its 3 kinds, your liver and kidneys, parasites, heavy metals, and mold. How Autoimmunity begins, your thyroid in depth with 6 example panels, each read for what it points to, the 90-day Autoimmune Protocol with reintroduction step by step, and the 6 Keys of the Autoimmune Recovery Method toward Remission.
Your labs, read against 2 rulers
The Lab Wish List for Midlife, with the days of your cycle to draw your sex hormones, the conventional range beside the functional optimal range for the markers that have one, a note on reading the rest against your own history, how to keep your own lab record, and a page to bring to your appointment. Then what to say when your doctor says 'no,' how to request your records, and how to find a Functional Medicine practitioner.
Your whole body, system by system
Your pelvic floor and bladder, breast care and your imaging options, your bones, your heart and cholesterol, your teeth and gums, and your eyes. Plus sugar and stress in depth, the genes people ask about (MTHFR and COMT), cortisol testing, and Supplements: Test, Don't Guess.
The layers above the Physical
Your memory and clear thinking, protecting your brain for life, the identity quake of the Emotional layer, the Relational layer nobody warns you about, the Spiritual layer, and the InSight Question. The facts and the heart, side by side.
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$7 is the whole price, and you keep the book.
The full 787-page Midlife Bible, as a PDF that is yours to keep. Read it on your phone, tablet, or computer, and search it for any word.
A clickable contents with 800+ bookmarks, so you can jump straight to any chapter.
50+ concept diagrams, from the specialist gap on page 28 to the whole-system map on page 690.
Lab tables with 2 rulers. The conventional range beside the functional optimal range for the markers that have one, and a note on reading the rest against your own history.
The Lab Wish List and a page to bring to your appointment, plus a chapter on what to say when your doctor says your labs are 'normal.'
80+ Pause and Reflect blocks, each with a 'My notes' space, so you write your own answers down before you walk in.
Every updated edition, free. I keep improving the book. When a new one is ready, a fresh link is one step away on your download page.
That is 787 pages for $7, less than 1 cent a page, and you keep it.
Thorough enough to walk into your next appointment with better questions.
Real numbers, named tests. Ferritin, TSH, Free T3, Reverse T3, TPO antibodies, progesterone, testosterone, and cortisol, with the range each one wants to sit in. Estradiol too, read against your own history, since it swings by the day.
The Autoimmune road, step by step. How Autoimmunity begins, the 90-day Autoimmune Protocol with reintroduction, and the 6 Keys of the Autoimmune Recovery Method toward Remission.
Words for the pushback. How to ask for the tests, and what to do if your doctor says 'no.'
My own story, step by step. My thyroid, my gut, my SIBO, my adrenals, and what I learned in my own body, told with the labs.
Choose your own adventure. Every symptom chapter names the chapters that go deeper, so you can start with the symptom that is loudest for you.
A full Resource Directory and references. Books, podcasts, communities, and the sources behind the chapters, so you can check my work.
'The scientist in me wants to know your ferritin, your vitamin D, and where you are in your cycle. The mystic in me wants to know whether you feel what Joseph Campbell called the rapture of being Alive.'Daniela Hess, in The Midlife Bible
For you, and for the Women who come to you.
If you are a Woman in your 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's, or 70's, this book is yours. In my experience, and as I write in the book, your body keeps responding to good care at every age. Read it with a notebook beside you, and write down every symptom you have been told to live with.
If you are a helper or healer, a therapist, yoga teacher, bodyworker, educator, Reiki practitioner, or spiritual teacher, the Women who come to you are, in large numbers, Midlife Women. Yoga is beautiful and necessary. Yoga cannot raise your ferritin. A sound bath cannot fix your thyroid. This is the reference for your shelf.
And give it to the Woman in your life who is 35 right now.
3 steps, about 2 minutes.
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Will the book change?
Yes. I keep improving it, and you get every updated edition for your $7. Your download page always opens the newest one.
Is this medical advice?
No. I am an educator. This book helps you understand your body and walk into your next appointment with better questions. Every medication and every dose decision stays with you and your prescriber. I am deeply grateful for doctors, and I found my own answers with Functional Medicine practitioners who look at how all your systems work together.
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The book I wish somebody had insisted I start reading at 35.
It would have saved me at least 15 years of suffering, and a tremendous amount of money. It is yours now, for $7.
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Daniela