The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow - Hardcover

by Phuli Cohan (Author)

A female doctor who has spent more than two decades studying the relationship between hormones and menopause presents a safe, effective program for using natural and bioidentical hormones to combat hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, and many other symptoms linked to menopause-related hormone imbalances. Combining traditions of Chinese medicine with the latest Western developments and discoveries, this easy-to-follow ten-step program helps you create a personalized course of treatment using supplements, herbs, natural and bio-identical hormones, and diet to enhance both safety and hormone effectiveness.

Front Jacket

"After having experienced various difficult peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms for years, I was helped greatly by Dr. Phuli Cohan's unique approach to treatment, which integrates elements of her training in Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic medicines."
--Nina Simonds, author of A Spoonful of Ginger and Spices of Life

Perimenopause, the five to fifteen years before meno-pause, is fraught with symptoms that are often ignored, or worse, tolerated. You can't avoid perimenopause or menopause, but you can avoid the suffering, loss of energy, and emotional ups and downs that accompany them. You can also retain your skin and muscle tone, feel as vigorous and healthy as ever, and enjoy an activesex life. And you don't have to risk your long-term health to do it.

In The Natural Hormone Makeover, a female doctor who has spent more than two decades studyingthe relationship between hormones and menopause presents a safe and effective program for using natu-ral and bioidentical hormones to combat hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, fatigue, breast pain, hair loss, low sex drive, and many other symptoms linked to menopause-related hormone imbalances.

This easy-to-follow ten-step treatment program educates and empowers you to make the best choices to improve your symptoms and feel healthier, happier, and sexier. Combining traditions of Chinese medicine with the latest Western developments and discoveries, this regimen helps you create a personalized course of treatment using supplements, herbs, natural and bio-identical hormones, and diet to enhance both safety and hormone effectiveness.

You'll learn everything you need to know about:

The seven different forms of estrogen and how their "personalities" affect you

Bioidentical hormones and why they are safer and more effective than hormone replacement therapy

The importance of the adrenal gland in improving symptoms and slowing the aging process

Cutting-edge discoveries concerning hormone metabolism, dietary supplements, and safety

Altering the effects of lifestyle, environment, and genetics on hormone balance

Chinese herbal treatments and why they help you to metabolize your body's own hormones more completely

Assembling a team of health professionals to ensure the safety and effectiveness of your hormone makeover

If you've been confused about your health and whether you need or can use hormones safely, you're not alone. Judging by the rash of false claims, misguided warnings, and faulty explanations in recent years, so are many of the so-called experts. The Natural Hormone Makeover gives you clear, authoritative, scientifically proven in-formation you can trust. Read it and start to rediscover your inner glow today.

Back Jacket

How To Make Menopause A Healthier, Happier, And Sexier Time Of Life

"Finally, a medically researched book that gives the big picture on all of our hormones and how they are interrelated. This book is a survival manual for those of us who want sound medical alternatives for keeping healthy."
--Jan Bergstrom, M.Ed., L.M.H.C.

"One book that every woman should read--and give to her daughter, her mother, and her friends--is The Natural Hormone Makeover. Dr. Cohan combines a brilliant mind and a tender heart to give readers a book that can truly make a difference in their lives."
--Ellen S. Glazer, L.I.C.S.W., author of Experiencing Infertility and The Long-Awaited Stork

The Natural Hormone Makeover shows you how to correct perimenopause- and menopause-related hormone imbalances safely by using natural or bioidentical hormones--many of which are available at the drugstore or health food store--instead of risky hormone replacement therapy. You'll learn how to determine which of your hormones--including estrogen, testosterone, DHEA, HGH, progesterone, and melatonin--may be unbalanced and create a personalized program to rebalance and support these hormones with natural hormone supplements, creams, and hormone-stimulating foods. This unique anti-aging approach to menopause also includes a list of the foods that are the most powerful in healing the effects of hormone imbalance and keeping you young and healthy for decades to come. This book is a must-read whether you are thirty-five and just beginning to notice changes or fifty-plus and confused about what to do.

Author Biography

Phuli Cohan, M.D., has been practicing medi-cine for twenty-five years. She is a member of the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine and has an active medical practice in Massachusetts. Cohan runs women's health workshops and has had speaking engagements all over the world. Visit her Web site at www.phulicohanmd.com.