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Menopause is not something most women look forward to in their early ’40’s to 50’s. The symptoms of Menopause include hot flashes, sleep disruption, lower energy, weight gain, and emotional health problems. Undergoing these body-changing conditions might make performing regular life activities, like work, more difficult.
According to a report by The Times, over a million women in the workforce left because of the physical and emotional impact of Menopause.
Hormone Therapy as a Treatment
Hormone Replacement Therapy can be prescribed by Gynecologists, Urologists, and Family Practice doctors, and many women seek this treatment for their Menopausal symptoms.
However, there are accompanying risks and side effects that come with any type of prescribed medication. Recently, it has been reported that in the UK, women have been prescribed anti-depressants for their Menopausal symptoms.
An Alternative Solution?
What if there was a way to bypass the symptoms of Menopause and the reported adverse side-effects of hormone therapies? Elissa Scott, the founder of The T Lady, rose to the challenge, by combining her love for empowering women with natural alternatives. She created the world’s first Menopause tea bag (using the five recommended herbs for Menopause) into soft, feminine non-plastic pyramid-shaped tea bags to treat the symptoms of Menopause. She created this business without the help of investments, loans, or family support, just her own hard-earned savings.
Besides her passion to use tea as a natural alternative to hormone therapies, Elissa is a huge proponent for instigating the power of entrepreneurship in women that reside in low-income countries. It was entrepreneurship that allowed her to transform her own life, from living on the streets to a millionaire. Her upbringing and infectious drive harnessed the ability within her to create this brand, among other companies and social enterprises. Here, she shares her success as a health entrepreneur, lessons (and tea) with other women.
From Homeless to Millionaire: Elissa’s Story
Growing up in a violent household, Elissa never had anywhere she could call home. She bounced around from home to home, on trains, and on the streets. The only thing she could think of was how to survive.
This is where the drive first budded within her. She always knew she wanted more than from the life she knew. Poverty, brokenness, violence, and abuse were symptoms of her upbringing in Sydney, Australia.
Elissa eventually transformed her life, starting a successful recruitment business which she was able to retire by the age of 40. Connecting to her days on the streets, she launched a charity for the homeless.
From Dirt to Wealth
While traditional prescription medicine requires billions of dollars in research and development, as well as marketing, natural alternative medicines can be half the cost.
Elissa’s encounter with women living in “the swamps” of Madagascar, the poorest country in the world, transpired the business idea for The T Lady tea. She witnessed how in the poorest conditions, it was still possible to rely on nature to provide goods for the masses. After returning to Australia, the tea idea came through her dreams as if it were passed down through her DNA.
From there, she engineered an eco-system comprising of the hardworking women that inspired her vision, as well the cultivation of natural herbs, straight from within the Earth. This transpired into the wealth-creating company she has today.
Natural Medicine is the Way Forward
The wellness industry is a $1.5 trillion dollar opportunity. People are becoming more cognizant about the types of harmful toxins that are entering their bodies through food or the environment. Simultaneously, there’s an epidemic of disease and drug prescriptions for all sorts of physical and mental ailments.
As people age, they become more reliant on conventional medications to preserve their health. Medicine becomes more of a “bandaid” than a deep diagnosis of the problem at stake, according to Elissa. Western medicine focuses on eliminating symptoms or targeting one organ and generally fails to address the adverse effects the ailment has on the entire body.
Chinese and natural medicine focuses on the body’s overall response to the problem and perceives the body as one interconnected system. Its purpose is to improve the entire body’s conditions, while also resolving the target issue. Unlike western prescription drugs, the functional aspect of Chinese medicine implies it is not supposed to be relied on forever.
The T-bags in Elissa’s creation consist of five natural ingredients. All five herbs are recommended for Menopause. Each herb, according to her functions to reduce and alleviate symptoms like hot flashes, sleeplessness, mood swings, and anxiety.
Tea is a Community Affair
The existence of The T Lady not only empowers the women who are behind the production, but also the women who are benefiting from the array of benefits it has given them. Coined as the ‘miracle tea’, Elissa has received numerous positive testimonials from customers, elated that the tea relieved their symptoms without the use of hormone replacement therapy.
The tea stimulates this outbound of wealth creation to health creation, which is facilitated by the whole ecosystem of women. Elissa only optimizes that more awareness can be brought towards traditional natural and herbal medicines and that the positive health and emotional benefits could reach more people.
Conclusion
Health and wellness are important at every stage of life. This is especially crucial for women that want to curtail the effects that the end of their fertile cycles bring about. Conventional prescription medication can treat symptoms but often fails to address the root of the problem. This creates a dependency on the pharmaceutical industry, and not that many actually getting better from their ailments. Natural medicine addresses illness with a more holistic perspective. It focuses on healing the entire body; creating optimal conditions for the body to thrive, and increasing overall immunity to disease. For Elissa Scott, The T Lady Menopause Tea is a natural remedy and solution for women that don’t want to endure adverse side effects or dependencies moving forward.
