Alternative Medicine & Natural Healing, Women's Health
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Overview
Long treated as a disease rather than as a natural phase of a healthy woman's life, menopause can be a time of increased vitality and well-being. This important book helps women of all ages understand and prepare for menopause in a refreshing new way.With recent findings from a new major study showing a 10 percent increase in breast cancer risk among women who use standard hormone replacement therapy, this timely guide to alternative therapies is needed now more than ever before. Dr. Shari Lieberman guides readers through a natural, safe, and effective program to treat the unpleasant symptoms of menopause using herbs, vitamins, and other supplements. She shares valuable, up-to-date information about natural hormones, known as phytoestrogens, and about powerful herbs for menopause, such as black cohosh, vitex, and ginseng. Readers also learn the benefits of using a saliva test to accurately assess hormone levels in peri-menopausal women.
Get Off the Menopause Roller Coaster arms women with a full range of options to help regain control during this troubling transition and emerge with renewed energy and peace of mind.
Editorials
Library Journal
Lieberman, a clinical nutritionist with a great deal of interest in natural therapies, has written a clear, concise guide to treating the symptoms of menopause. Her focus is holistic, with good advice on eating right, exercising, and taking herbal supplements to counteract menopause-related hot flashes, menstrual changes, and sexual symptoms. Though following her advice is not as convenient as taking hormone replacement pills, Lieberman argues persuasively that her plan is a healthy way to approach menopausal changes. She does discuss the pros and cons of hormone replacement therapy, but she challenges readers not to use it as a substitute for healthy living. Very well written and engaging, this work complements Dr. Susan Love's Hormone Book (LJ 3/1/97) and Miriam Stoppard's Natural Menopause (DK, 1998) while offering a nice counterpoint to Adam Romoff's excellent Estrogen : How and Why It Can Save Your Life (LJ 2/1/99). Recommended for public libraries and consumer health collections.--Elizabeth Williams, Houston Acad. of Medicine-Texas Medical Ctr. Lib. Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.\Book Details
Published
October 1, 1900
Publisher
Avery Publishing Group
Pages
208
Format
Textbook
ISBN
9781583330005