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Lee, John R., M.D.

What your doctor may not tell you about menopause : the breakthrough book on natural hormone balance / John R. Lee, with Virginia Hopkins.

Rev. and updated.

New York : Warner Books, ©2004.

xx, 440 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm

- WHAT YOUR DOCTOR MAY "NOT TELL YOU ABOUT MENOPAUSE was originally published in Warner trade paperback in 1996. Selling close to 875,000 copies, it averages a monthly reorder rate of over 5,000 copies.- Dr. Lee's other books have also been very successful. "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause (Warner, 1999) has sold over 320,000 copies in trade paperback and reorders more than 5,400 copies a month. "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer (Warner, 1/02) has sold close to 40,000 hardcover copies to date.- This revised edition is especially timely now that the National Institute of Health (NIH) has confirmed that HRT can lead to a higher risk of breast cancer, heart disease, and stroke, leaving millions of women searching for a safer alternative therapy.

Menopause -- Hormone therapy.

Progesterone -- Therapeutic use.

Menopause -- Complications -- Alternative treatment.

Hopkins, Virginia.

"Originally published with the subtitle the breakthrough book on natural progestrone."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-424) and index.

Introduction -- PART I: THE INNER WORKINGS OF HORMONE BALANCE: The crux of the matter: menopausal politics and women's hormone cycles -- The dance of the steroids -- The history of hormone replacement therapy and the estrogen myth -- What is estrogen? -- Hormone balance: xenobiotics and future generations -- What is natural progesterone? -- The dramatic difference between progesterone and progestins -- Sex hormones and the brain -- What are androgens? -- Hormone balance and the menstrual cycle -- PART II: HORMONE BALANCE AND ILLNESS: Progesterone and menopause symptoms -- Hormone balance and the adrenal and thyroid glands -- Hormone balance, nutrition, and osteoporosis -- Women and cardiovascular disease -- Hormone balance and cancer -- Getting off conventional HRT and on to natural hormones -- Questions and answers about natural hormone replacement therapy -- Natural hormone balance and pelvic disorders -- Hormone balance and other common health problems -- PART III: CREATING AND MAINTAINING HORMONE BALANCE: How to use progesterone supplementation -- How to use estrogen, DHEA, pregnenolone, the corticosteroids, testosterone, and androstenedione -- Nutrition for healthy hormones -- Commonly asked questions about using normal progesterone -- Glossary -- Resources -- Recommended reading -- References -- Appendix: The structure of steroid hormones.

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