Hormones and Your Health: The Smart Woman's Guide to Hormonal and Alternative Therapies for Menopause

Hormones and Your Health: The Smart Woman's Guide to Hormonal and Alternative Therapies for Menopause

by Winnifred Cutler
Hormones and Your Health: The Smart Woman's Guide to Hormonal and Alternative Therapies for Menopause

Hormones and Your Health: The Smart Woman's Guide to Hormonal and Alternative Therapies for Menopause

by Winnifred Cutler

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Overview

Many women are at a loss when it comes to charting their best course through menopause—but you don't have to be

Connecting recent scientific evidence among hormones, sexuality, bone and cardiovascular health, memory, surgery, and breast cancer, Dr. Cutler explains how valuable good HRT regimens are to your longevity and general health and how to improve your vitality with diet, exercise, and hormonal and alternative therapies that work.

"Excellent job reviewing the many issues relating to perimenopause and menopause. . . . Your chapter on fibroids will be very valuable to consumers. The text is easy to follow, the illustrations are beautifully clear, and the references are excellent." —John J. Sciarra, M.D., Ph.D., past president,International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics

"What impressed me most were the passionate commitment to rigorously conducted research and the clarity with which the results were presented so any intelligent woman can understand them." —Regula Burki, M.D., FACOG, gynecological surgeon and menopause specialist

"Dr. Cutler dispassionately reviews and synthesizes the available literature to craft scientifically sound recommendations that can be used to optimize the quality of women's health." —Elizabeth Genovese, M.D., FACOEM, FAADEP

"A welcome reference for my patients and others interested in women's health. Readable, informative, and concise. Long overdue." —Millicent Zacher, D.O., FACOG, Thomas Jefferson University


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780470289020
Publisher: Turner Publishing Company
Publication date: 04/01/2009
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 336
Product dimensions: 9.46(w) x 6.46(h) x 1.14(d)

About the Author

WINNIFRED B. CUTLER, Ph.D., a respected scientific researcher credited with having codiscovered human pheromones in the 1980s, is the founder of the Athena Institute for Women’s Wellness (www.AthenaInstitute.com). Dr. Cutler and her work have been featured in publications such as Time, the New York Times, and Self and on television programs such as Good Morning America and 20/20. She has authored or coauthored eight books, including Menopause, Hysterectomy, and Love Cycles.

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Table of Contents

1. Take Ownership of Your Health.

2. Taking Hormones for Good Health: Why You Will Benefit from Hormonal Replacement Therapy (HRT).

3. Prescription Hormones: How to Choose Them, How to Take Them.

4. Complementary and Alternative Practices: Some Good/Some Bad.

5. Pelvic Problems: Hyperplasia, Cervical Cancer, and Endometriosis.

6. Declining Pelvic Muscle Tone: Pelvic Prolapse and Urinary Incontinence.

7. Diagnosis Fibroids: The Top Four Treatments and Why They May or May Not Work for You.

8. Protect Your Bones with Exercise, Posture, Vitamin D, Calcium, and Hormones.

9. Keep Your Heart Strong and Blood Flowing through Unclogged Vessels.

10. Protecting The Breasts: The Hidden Truth about Mammography, Radiation, Hormones and Cancer.

11. Preserving Memory, Alertness And Optimism.

12. Your Changing Sexual Life and What You Can Do about It.

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