Her work has reflected the changing concerns of the baby boom generation from marriage to middle age. Given her sustained interest in a health-promoting diet, it was natural for Shandler to seek a dietary approach to mid-life changes. This inclination turned into a serious search for an alternative, when Hormone Replacement Therapy did not relieve her own menopausal symptoms. In fact, estrogen, the most prescribed drug in America, made her feel worse -- more bloated, headache-prone, nauseous, and moody. Forsaking the drugstore, she found a solution to her menopausal woes at the grocery store after extensive research into natural estrogen replacement. Discovering what few women know - some foods have estrogen - she headed for the kitchen and teamed up with nutritionally aware physicians to write her eighth book, "Estrogen The Natural Way".