End Suffering Many of factors in this list you can control. For years allopathic (traditional) medicine has given symptomatic treatments for PMS that do not work. Most physicians do not know latest research on hormone balancing. Some never had any training in PMS. Treating a woman’s bloating with diuretics, headaches with painkillers, and anxiety with Valium ignores underlying imbalance that led to PMS. Many of treatments prescribed often have side effects. Psychotherapy can provide insight about stress, but this bypasses nutritional and biochemical aspects of this disorder.

Don’t give up! There are answers that can help you heal your PMS:

·Adopt a diet of fresh, in-season, organic fruits and vegetables. • Review your dietary needs eliminating caffeine, sugar, dairy and excess soy. • Take good organic multivitamin mineral supplements. • Reduce stress. • Consider participating in a 12-step program if alcoholism runs in your family. • Get at least 20 minute of aerobic exercise five times per week. • Try reflexology. • Get more natural or full-spectrum light. • Test hormone levels and apply natural progesterone.

For more suggestions go to www.menopause-pms-progesterone.org and www.oasisserene.com

At Oasis Advanced Wellness hormonal levels can be tested with a simple and inexpensive saliva test performed in privacy of your own home. With these results and your symptom journal, you can determine your need for natural hormone replacement therapy (HRT). One product that is safe and non-toxic is natural progesterone. It helps to balance effects of estrogen, and has a calming effect on nervous system. The use of natural progesterone in combination with lifestyle changes often improves PMS symptoms. By reviewing your symptoms, we can evaluate your diet and exercise program, create a program and then monitor your progress.

You can find out more about solutions in my e-Book, Balancing Your Hormones Without Drugs…You Can Feel Good Again.

When Joel headed east to trek, I headed west to create a new interface to a 90-year-old family business, Maurice Goldman Fine Jewelry http://www.mauricegoldman.com

Over last eight months, learning curve has been steep. Within 2 weeks of opening our eBay store, fraudsters were running rampant.

David Bloom wrote in from Cremona, Italy, with ready cash for a $20,000 sapphire ring, and a strong recommendation that we use an escrow service to protect him from losing his hard earned cash. It's true that he never spoke about protecting us from losing our hard earned merchandise... At eleventh hour, well, actually at 8 AM in my pajamas in front of computer screen, with aid of my calm, dependable and analytical husband, I avoided our first theft in virtual world. We learned that not all escrow sites are created equal, and that one our "customer" "recommended" was a fraud. In his last e-mail note to me, Mr. Bloom lamented that site was phony, and that he had just suffered a loss of $20,000. Couldn't we have told him sooner?(!)

Other would-be sales included stolen credit cards (this is apparent when buyer suggests that you take MORE money than you posted sales price to cover charges), more fraudulent escrow sites, money transfer deals, and a bank check swindle. As Joel points out, crooks are always a step ahead.

My work vocabulary has grown exponentially, as has my respect for business world in general, and my father in particular. Our business issues are same: to source new products, to market and sell to a growing customer base, and to avoid theft and fraud. But whereas my Dad deals with real world, my business is virtual. I find global reach of virtual world tremendously satisfying and very neat. Customers tell us that our online presence means they can acquire goods otherwise unavailable in their small towns. So here I am in Israel, promoting and selling jewelry that is in New York, to customers around world, without leaving house. The process of building and handling internet extension of our family business, and combining family, home and business brings me full circle. My cup runneth over.