What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Premenopause Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty

by Lee, John R.; Hanley, Jesse; Hopkins, Virginia

• ISBN13: 9780446673808
• ISBN10: 0446673803
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing

Summary

An expert in women's health offers a safe, proven, effective hormone balance program for the more than 50 million women suffering from premenopause syndrome

Table of Contents

Note from Dr. Lee	xiii	(4)
Note from Dr. Hanley	xvii
Part I: GETTING ACQUAINTED Life Cycles and Hormone Cycles	1	(92)
Chapter 1 Premenopause as a Life Cycle	3	(18)
Chapter 2 The Importance of Hormone Balance	21	(22)
Chapter 3 The Estrogens: Angels of Life, Angels of Death	43	(12)
Chapter 4 Progesterone and Progestins: The Great Protector and the Great Impostors	55	(21)
Chapter 5 How We Got into Xenohormone Hell and How to Get Out	76	(17)
Part II: WHEN YOUR BODY TALKS, LISTEN What's Causing Premenopause Syndrome Symptoms and How to Treat Them	93	(148)
Chapter 6 How (and Why) to Keep Your Uterus and Save Your Cervix	95	(19)
Chapter 7 Cycles, Follicles, and Ovaries	114	(18)
Chapter 8 PMS: And When She Was Good She Was Very, Very Good, and When She Was Bad She Was Horrid	132	(17)
Chapter 9 Tired Adrenals Equals a Tired Woman	149	(9)
Chapter 10 Other Premenopause Syndrome Symptoms and Solutions	158	(41)
Chapter 11 The Dangers of Hormonal Contraceptives	199	(6)
Chapter 12 The Relationship of Hormones to Breast Cancer and Other Women's Cancers	205	(36)
Part III: THE PREMENOPAUSE BALANCE PROGRAM Practical Steps for Optimal Health	241	(106)
Chapter 13 Restoring and Maintaining Balance	243	(14)
Chapter 14 How Nutrition Affects Your Hormone Balance	257	(47)
Chapter 15 How Exercise Affects Your Hormone Balance	304	(16)
Chapter 16 How to Use Natural Progesterone	320	(16)
Chapter 17 How to Use Other Natural Hormones	336	(11)
Glossary	347	(5)
Resources	352	(9)
Recommended Reading	361	(5)
References	366	(17)
Bibliography	383	(1)
Index	384	(9)
About the Authors	393