I had a baby with multiple birth defects in 1981.
Great loss of sleep for several years with her care and great stress from this and added by my husband was heading me toward a real tough time with menopause symptoms. I wanted something safer to help alleviate the horrible hot flashes I was getting. My mental and physical self had already been put through long drawn-out hardship and did not want anything adding to whatever problems had already manifested. My worn-out body needed something more in tune with my body and that would work with it to help correct it.