Menopause Bootcamp

Physician Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, known across Los Angeles for her Menopause Bootcamp retreats and called Dr. Suzanne by her patients, draws on two decades of medical practice to offer a whole-person guide to the menopause years. Her goal is not only to help readers get through this transition but to help them flourish within it.

Throughout her career she saw how little guidance women received at this stage. Medical training gives menopause only passing attention, and in everyday life it is either kept quiet or turned into a joke. Compounding this are the misogyny and ageism common in our culture, which present the change as something to dread and attach a sense of shame to growing older, even though it can mark the start of a new and fulfilling chapter.

The book addresses the physical and emotional changes that arise, including shifts in libido, metabolism and body image, as well as worries about inherited conditions linked to aging. Roughly 27 million women enter menopause each year, and Dr. Suzanne argues they deserve frank, current, whole-body information. Her approach combines meditation, yoga, therapy and herbal supplements with the latest science and conventional medical treatments, treating menopause as a condition that touches every part of life.

Packed with answers to common questions and practical insights, the writing blends her expertise with a warm voice and candid, sometimes laugh-out-loud humor. Its central message is that life does not end at menopause but opens onto something new.