Natural Hormone Balance for Women: Look Younger, Feel Stronger, and Live Life With Exuberance

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Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-01-01
Publisher(s): Pocket Books
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Summary

A pioneering gynecologist and antiaging specialist with a successful Beverly Hills practice, Dr. Uzzi Reiss shows the way for women who want to turn back the effects of time through natural hormone therapy, but who wonder: is it safe? Does it work? Is hormonetherapy right for me? NATURAL HORMONE BALANCE for Women is Dr. Reiss's breakthrough, step-by-step program for women who want to take control of their lives by restoring hormonal balance. This revolutionary, commonsense natural hormone replacement program is designed to meet the individual needs of most women looking to rejuvenate body and mind -- and offers astounding benefits for women of all ages: More energy and stamina * Improved memory * Healthier, more youthful skin * Balanced moods * Less depression and anxiety * Stabilization of weight and more muscle definition * Better sleep patterns * PMS and menopausal symptoms reduced or eliminated * Enhanced sexuality Dr. Reiss takes the confusion out of the medical information you need to know. In clear, nontechnical language, he thoroughly explains: the important difference between standard chemical hormone prescriptions and natural hormone replacements which hormone replacements are best for you and how to adjust them to your maximum individual benefit how to take hormones without worry how to choose the most effective hormonal gel, cream, pill, or sublingual drops, and when to use them. Dr. Reiss has helped thousands of women transform their lives by achieving natural hormone balance. Now you can tap into the replenishing "fountain of youthfulness" that is not only essential for better life, but easier and safer to achieve than ever before.

Author Biography

Obstetrician-gynecologist Uzzi Reiss, M.D., has been a leader in the clinical application of natural hormones, nutrition, mind/body principles, and other innovative methods. From serving free clinics in New York and Los Angeles at the start of his career up to the present day in his highly successful Beverly Hills practice, he has used these approaches to maximize the health of thousands of patients. In 1997, Reiss opened the Beverly Hills Anti-Aging Center as a natural expansion of his prevention-oriented practice. He is one of the first medical doctors in the United States to become board-certified by the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine. Israeli-born, Dr. Reiss earned his medical degree at the Technion Institute of Technology in Haifa and completed his U.S. residency in obstetrics and gynecology at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of New York.

Table of Contents

Foreword xi
Jesse Lynn Hanley
Introduction: Taking Hormones without Worry xv
PART ONE The Promise of Natural Hormone Replacement
Why Natural Hormones?
3(8)
Hormones and Individuality
11(3)
Before You Start---Tending to Your Stress and Insulin
14(8)
Making Your Physician a Natural Hormone Partner
22(5)
PART TWO How to Control Estrogen---Instead of Being Controlled
ABCs of Estrogen
27(14)
Problems with Conventional Estrogen Replacement (ERT)
41(7)
Basics of Natural Estrogen Replacement
48(12)
Natural Estrogen Replacement for Menopause
60(19)
Natural Estrogen Replacement for Perimenopause
79(10)
Natural Estrogen Replacement for Younger Women
89(10)
PART THREE How to Optimize Your Progesterone Protection
ABCs of Progesterone
99(5)
Progesterone and Progestins---Two Million Years of Difference
104(10)
Basics of Natural Progesterone Replacement
114(10)
Natural Progesterone Replacement for Menopause
124(13)
Natural Progestrogen Replacement for Perimenopause
137(6)
Natural Progresterogen Replacement for Younger Women
143(22)
PART FOUR Building on the Basics: Using Other Natural Hormones to Stay Younger, More Vital, and Healthier
Testosterone
165(13)
Human Growth Hormone
178(14)
DHEA
192(12)
Melatonin
204(6)
Pregnenolone
210(7)
PART FIVE Putting It All Together
How to Take Multiple Hormones
217(12)
Breast Cancer and Hormones
229(18)
The Future of Hormone Therapy
247(12)
Appendices
A Where to Buy Natural Hormones
251(4)
B Beware of Hidden Hormones in Health Products
255(4)
Selected References 259(14)
Acknowledgments 273(2)
Index 275(18)
About the Authors 293

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