Lark, Susan M.
Nachtigall, Lila
Kamen, Betty
"Expanded and updated"--T.p. verso. Includes bibliographical references (p. 262-271) and index.
Downing, Christine
Bibliography: p. 157-164.
Weed, Susun S.
About the Author Susun Weed, green witch and wise woman, is an extraordinary teacher with a joyous spirit, a powerful presence, and an encyclopedic knowledge of herbs and health. She is the voice of the Wise Woman Way, where common weeds, simple ceremony, and compassionate listening support and nourish health/wholeness/holiness. She has opened hearts to the magic and medicine of the green nations for three decades. Ms. Weed's four herbal medicine books focus on women's health topics including: menopause, childbearing, and breast health. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description The menopause "bible" for 350,000 women who've chosen strong bones and healthy hearts without recourse to hormones. A treasure trove of accessible, reliable, non-drug remedies.
Beard, Mary K.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 250-255) and index.
Mayo, Mary Ann
Ingram With its emphasis on simple, adaptable lifestyle choices, this book can help women view menopause as a time of transition leading to a new, exciting, and healthful ways to spend the latter third of their lives. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. About the Author Mary Ann Mayo, M.A., MFT, is a licensed family and child counselor and the author of eight books. Joseph L. Mayo, M.D., FACOG, is a Stanford-trained OB/GYN. The Mayos are members of The North American Menopause Society and live in Healdsburg, California. Book Description Menopause is an inevitable journey that reflects a woman's medical history, lifestyle, and outlook on life. Given the right information, she can manage it with the same confidence she confronts every other aspect of her life. Now in paperback, this book offers a step-by-step approach for evaluating current health and menopause symptoms and choosing the most appropriate treatments. It will help readers: - understand the medical, botanical, and lifestyle options available for treatment of menopause symptoms - develop an action plan that promotes wellness of body, mind, and spirit - understand how other health issues can worsen the signs of menopause - determine risk factors for osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, breast and colon cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and diabetes With its emphasis on simple, adaptable lifestyle choices, this book can help women see menopause as a time of transition leading to new, exciting, and healthful ways to spend the next one-third of their lives.
Lark, Susan
Ojeda, Linda
Book Description Linda Ojeda has long maintained that menopause is a natural stage in a woman's life and should not be "medicalized." This updated edition discusses the ongoing controversy over hormone replacement therapy and suggests natural ways to counteract osteoporosis, heart disease, and more. --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Ingram A guide to dealing with menopausal problems through diet, exercise, and nutrition updates readers on the latest information regarding breast cancer and osteoporosis and discusses physical conditioning, beauty care, weight control, and more. Original.
Greenwood, Sadja
Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-219).
Turkington, Carol
Table of Contents Foreword vii Acknowledgments ix Introduction xi 1 What Is Perimenopause? 1 2 Symptoms of Perimenopause 7 3 How to Tell If You're in Early Menopause (Diagnosis) 27 4 Getting Help: Finding the Right Doctor 31 5 Alternative Treatment 41 6 Hormone Replacement Therapy 65 7 Sex and Fertility 91 8 Looking and Feeling Your Best: Diet and Exercise 101 9 Preventing Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, and Breast Cancer 119 Appendix A. Organizations Concerned with Perimenopause 135 Appendix B. Websites of Interest to Women in Perimenopause 143 Appendix C. Menopause Clinics 145 Appendix D. Publications About Perimenopause and Menopause 149 Glossary 151 Bibliography 165 Index 174 Ingram A true resource for women in their 30s and 40s, this book defines perimenopause, outlines what happens to the body during perimenopause, and shows readers how to identify whether or not they are experiencing perimenopause.
Lanka, L. Darlene, M.D.
Book Description This newly revised second edition shows women how to manage the transition to menopause. This guide includes new information on heart disease, osteoporosis, breast cancer, birth control, and hormone replacement, as well as an expanded chapter on alternative health options. The authors have also thoroughly updated their extensive references and appendices, allowing quick access to specific information.
Teaff, Nancy Lee, M.D.
Ingram During the five to 15 years leading up to the actual beginning of menopause, it is common for many women to begin to experience bewildering symptoms like hot flashes, mood swings, irregular menstrual cycles, sleeping disorders, and what some describe as "PMS all month." Here is a much-needed book for woman entering this phase, written in a jargon-free manner. From the Back Cover Every Woman's Guide to Taking Charge of the Change --This text refers to the Paperback edition. Book Description This book is a jargon-free, reader-friendly, supportive guide for women facing perimenopause--the phase leading up to the actual beginning of menopause. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Sheehy, Gail
From AudioFile Gail Sheehy's latest book breaks the "silence" surrounding menopause, the "passage" in a woman's life which is not widely discussed or completely understood. Mixing up-to-date facts and current medical studies with personal stories and interviews of women, both well-known and unknown, this audiobook provides an examination of menopause's range of symptoms and treatments. Gail Sheehy's narration matches this mix of factual and anecdotal information. Her voice moves from a steady, level and clear recitation to a more rapid, conversational and enthusiastic expression. This change in tempo keeps the listener both absorbed and informed. A.A.B. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. From Kirkus Reviews A compelling discussion about menopause, packed with facts and anecdotes that are right on target for the baby-boom women about to encounter change of life. This short volume is an outgrowth of an article that Sheehy wrote for Vanity Fair when she began to experience menopausal symptoms. The response from readers was immediate, clearly confirming that the article had cracked ``the last taboo.'' To rephrase an old saw, nobody wants to talk about menopause, but everybody wants to do something... read more --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Dosh, Robert M.
Lee V, M.D.
Amazon.com Women considering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause symptoms and health benefits should read this controversial, provocative book first. "Advertising and research dollars are spent trying to convince women that estrogen will cure everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's," writes John R. Lee, M.D., "but there is scant evidence for any of these claims and reams of evidence that synthetic estrogens are highly toxic and carcinogenic." Lee has studied the research and concludes that estrogen is not the magic bullet for protection against heart disease and osteoporosis, nor does it retard aging. Natural progesterone, instead, puts postmenopausal women's hormones in balance, says Lee. He cites study after study that indicates that natural progesterone, obtained in cream form, delivers what the usual HRT only promises. "Menopause as a disease has been largely fabricated by physicians and the pharmaceutical industry," says this leader of a "quiet but powerful revolution" regarding HRT. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause covers the benefits of natural progesterone, the history and politics of the medical and drug establishment, the biochemistry and dynamics of hormones and how they get out of balance, and how to prevent hormone imbalance and stay healthy. Lee empowers you to ask hard questions of your doctor. Highly recommended. --Joan Price Ingram Here is a practical and resourceful guide that focuses on the effective, scientifically proven, natural alternative to current therapies used in combating the effects of menopause. This invaluable volume also contains a complete, non-prescription "hormone balance" program for optimal health, which lists foods, supplements, and herbs that can be used to balance a woman's hormones. Book Description This book offers the exciting facts about natural progesterone-and how it can deliver what HRT and estrogen only promise. Premenopausal symptoms, endometriosis, weight gain, low sex drive, fibrocystic breasts, heart disease, and osteoporosis-most women will experience these or other hormone-related problems. And today, millions of women concerned about aging must decide whether or not to undergo synthetic hormone replacement therapy-and suffer its side effects and increased risks of cancer. But there is revolutionary news about completely safe, natural progesterone, the only hormone supplement women may need as they age. And, the natural progesterone program in WHAT YOUR DOCTOR...MENOPAUSE has already helped nearly a million women. Now, in this expanded and completely updated edition, Dr. Lee brings you lifesaving facts that even your doctor may not know about Premarin, Provera, and other HRT drugs; gives you an easy-to-follow nonprescription "Hormone Balance" program; and tells you how to stay energized, strong, sexually vigorous, and free from "female problems" before menopause, during the menopausal years, and beyond. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Northrup, Christiane
Amazon.com's Best of 2001 Menopause doesn't have to be a dreaded curse of aging during which we can look forward only to hot flashes and whacked-out hormonal mood swings. According to Christiane Northrup, M.D. (Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom), menopause often marks the beginning of a woman's most sexually passionate, creatively inspired, and professionally productive phase of life. While this may sound like wishful thinking, Northrup backs up her good news with solid medical expertise. As an obstetrician and gynecologist, Northrup has specialized in using a mind-body approach to women's health for decades, which means she doesn't just write about hormones, but also examines how a woman's lifestyle, emotions, and beliefs are affected by menopause. With the right diet, attitude, and perhaps some supplements along the way, women can actually look forward to a resurgence of energy and a revolutionary opportunity for personal growth--one that rivals the hormonally driven period of adolescence in its scope and urgency, she claims. And yes, at just under 500 pages, The Wisdom of Menopause does explain how to have a positive and healthy menopause in concise detail. Northrup has indeed "written the book" on menopause. It helps that Northrup has been through menopause herself (she vowed she wouldn't write a book on it until she was on the other side). Readers have the sense that they are gleaning advice from a knowledgeable holistic doctor as well as a sage aunt whose life was radically altered by the "change of life" (Northrup divorced at the onset of menopause). After she shares her personal story of "the change," Northrup delves into a significant discussion on how self-sacrifice catches up with women in midlife. Suddenly, hormones are directing women out of the caregiver role and into an inwardly focused assessment of life and its meaning, she explains. Resentments (not hormones) are what spur the notorious surges of anger, as women reexamine the agreements surrounding their relationships with colleagues, friends, and family members. From here, Northrup guides readers into a thorough section on menopausal hormone changes--a discussion that is scientifically informative, yet entirely accessible. While acknowledging the need for hormone-replacement therapy and the tremendous relief it can provide (helping to alleviate insomnia, hot flashes, and depression), Northrup encourages women to avoid synthetic hormones and instead consider "bioidentical" hormones (such as estradiol, estrone, and estriol). She also devotes an entire chapter to foods and supplements that support hormonal balance. By the way, she says to skip the wild Mexican yam creams: "they certainly don't provide the documented benefits of progesterone." Be warned: some readers may find the advice in Wisdom of Menopause too alternative for their liking. For example, in her discussion on insomnia, one of Northrup's recommendations is to cover the mirror at night, following the ancient Asian design principles of feng shui. (Skeptics will find Northrup's medical assertions carefully cited and footnoted in the rear of her book.) Northrup gives a solid and practical diet plan that supports hormonal balance while countering the weight gain that so frequently plagues menopausal women ("focus on portion size, not calories," "eat protein at every meal," and cut down on refined and high-carbohydrate foods). Readers can also expect a thorough mind-body discussion in subsequent chapters that cover breast health, bone loss, and cultivating midlife beauty, along with chapters titled "Sex and Menopause: Myths and Reality" and "Creating Pelvic Health and Power." She concludes with a list of mail-order and online resources, such as retailers for bioidentical hormones, progesterone cream, Chinese herbs, soy products, weight-loss audiocassettes, lubricants, and Kegel weights. Northrup takes a truly comprehensive approach to all the effective treatments of menopausal symptoms so that women can make their own highly informed and wise choices. --Gail Hudson From Publishers Week
Hall, Judy
Includes bibliographical references (p. [216]-219) and index.
Taylor, Dena (Editor)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [378]-[380]).