Praise for The Energy Prescription

“The Energy Prescription is a groundbreaking and deeply integrative guide to menopause that masterfully bridges cutting-edge science with time-tested wisdom. It offers clinicians and patients an evidence-based, practical roadmap for restoring energy, strengthening resilience, and supporting whole-person health during midlife. This is not simply a book about managing symptoms?it is a powerful framework for navigating menopause with clarity, vitality, and empowerment.”

?Shauna Shapiro, Ph.D

“Modern wellness culture tells women to glow harder, push further, and somehow reclaim the energy of their twenties. Dr. Jennifer Ashby offers a radical?and deeply healing?alternative. Drawing from East Asian medicine and lived experience, The Energy Prescription teaches women how to stop burning themselves out like torches and start tending their energy like the precious resource it is. As a doctor specializing in fertility and women’s health, I believe this book belongs in the hands of every woman navigating midlife, reinvention, and the wisdom of the body. This is not about getting your old energy back?it’s about discovering a wiser, more sustainable fire.”

?Dr. Julie Von, DAOM, author of Spiritual Fertility

“A timely and empowering guide that reframes menopause through science, strategy, and self-knowledge.”

?Sara Szal, MD, New York Times bestselling author of Women, Food, and Hormones

“The Energy Prescription is the midlife manual you didn’t know you needed. With the right guidance and information, we can turn menopause from a problem to be solved into a time of empowerment, recalibration, and vitality. Jennifer’s brilliance as a provider and wisdom keeper shines throughout, offering us so many practical tools and strategies to ease this transition.”

?Dionne Detraz

“At a time in life when the messaging most women receive is oriented around loss, absence, and diminishment… Dr Ashby's invitation to embrace midlife as a season of enhanced personal wisdom, energy, and social value feels like a long exhale. The Energy Prescription weaves East Asian medicine with current science in offering actionable tools that give women real support for navigating this transition with agency and grace. Reading this feels like I’m being guided by a best friend, wise woman, doctor, and advocate.? A genuinely enlivening guide for one of life's most potent transitions.”

?Lori Schwanbeck

“At first, glance, The Energy Prescription is a comprehensive manual for grappling with the turbulence confronting women as they weather the stormy seas of menopause. But actually, it is a teaching! It shows women, in concert with their Western medicine and Chinese medicine doctors, a way to navigate uncharted waters: how to assemble a new genre of medicine out of the nascent collaboration between two radically dissimilar medical traditions. Awesome benefits may emerge from such a collaboration.”

?Efrem Korngold, OMD, co-author, Between Heaven and Earth: A Guide to Chinese Medicine

“Finally!? A book that empowers readers to self-assess and apply both contemporary and traditional medical insights to their own situation, rather than just 'take this herb' or 'press this acupoint.’”

?Claudia Citkovitz, PhD, MS, L.Ac, author of Acupressure and Acupuncture During Birth: An Integrative Guide for Acupuncturists and Birth Professionals

“A much needed voice that empowers women to reclaim the gift of this transformative time and redirects the conversation away from ‘fixing’ a broken system to ‘tending’ a living garden. The Energy Prescription stirs away from the overt simplification and medicalization of menopause, which has come with increased awareness. By bridging wisdom and science, it offers whole person wellness tools and helps avoid the trap of haphazard one-size fits all solutions.”

?Rosa N. Schnyer, DAOM, IFMCP, L.Ac, Clinical Assistant Professor, School of Nursing, University of Texas

“You may already have a lot of books on your menopause bookshelf, but you haven’t read everything until you have read Dr. Jennifer Ashby’s very current contribution.

Above all she feels that the seamless integration of western science-based facts plus the time honored empiricism of eastern medicine, presented in her clear non dogmatic narrative style? provides an eminently accessible and actionable educational experience for the reader. And, to be sure, not just for women who directly experience this in mid-life but of significant value to younger women and men as well, who need to be informed on the wide array of topics she touches on such as the way culture shapes and defines our understanding of menopause generating themes of shame, medically dismissed symptoms, seesawing libido, changes in energy and cognition , and so on…..

Dr. Jennifer Ashby clearly says this is a time of change which will run the gamut of personal experiences for women on physical and emotional levels. She refers to this period as a “season”,? which is a very appropriate? western astronomical metaphor and to that I might add the east Asian human scale metaphor where menopause is like an ‘odyssey,’ where it is something you go through and then on the other side you? begin again, born fresh, new? and enthusiastically alive.”

?Michael Broffman, L.Ac

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