It's Your Hormones: The Women's Complete Guide to Soothing PMS, Clearing Acne, Regrowing Hair, Healing PCOS, Feeling Good on the Pill, Enjoying a Safe and Comfortable Menopause, Recharging Your Sex D (Paperback)

by Geoffrey Redmond (Author)
Key Phrases: hormonal vulnerability, women with alopecia, hormonal hair loss, United States, Ortho Tri-Cyclen, Katharina Dalton (more...)

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"Avuncular, worldly, humane and open, Redmond is just the sort of guide women will appreciate as they negotiate their way through the startling and often unpleasant terrain of hormonal vulnerability."

Product Description

From the renowned director of the Hormone Center of New York: complete cutting–edge medical and alternative strategies for living happily with your hormones–including how to enhance your sex life safely with testosterone.

According to Geoffrey Redmond, M.D., a majority of the 42 million American women between the ages of 35 and 55 suffer from vulnerability to their own hormones. Appearance, feelings–and even sex drive–may be affected. Symptoms include thinning hair, persistent acne, mood swings, low energy, loss of pleasure in sex, weight gain, irregular periods, and migraines. While the media has emphasized the problems of menopause, Dr. Redmond explains that many women experience hormonal miseries even in their thirties. Lab tests are often normal because the problem is not the hormones themselves but how a woman's body reacts to them. Healthy, active women suddenly find that once quiescent hormones are ruling their lives.

Because their problems are often dismissed as trivial, women who are hormonally vulnerable are frequently thwarted in their quest for help. Too often they are brushed off with remarks such as, "Your tests are normal; there's nothing wrong with you." This is tragic because, as Dr. Redmond demonstrates, hormonal balance can nearly always be restored with the treatments he details, which include individualized use of prescription medications, herbal supplements, lifestyle changes, and even spiritual practices.

Many women have heard that testosterone can help sex drive, but most have not been warned about the damage that careless testosterone therapy can cause on skin and hair. In this book, Dr. Redmond, an internationally recognized authority on testosterone in women, explains the only safe ways to use testosterone.

With informative sidebars, quizzes, and personal stories of women who have overcome hormone vulnerability, this helpful book will empower you to find treatments for your hormone problems that are tailored to fit your own body, biochemistry, symptoms, and lifestyle.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 480 pages
• Publisher: Collins Living (December 26, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0060859695
• ISBN-13: 978-0060859695
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #25,741 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars There is hope out there ladies! , September 8, 2007

By	Valarie c (portland,oregon) - See all my reviews

Have not finished the book, but have ready about half. The parts that I have read pertain to my problem and some other issues friends are having. This is the 4th book I have bought that was about hair loss. This book covers more that hair loss. There are so many different reasons women loose their hair, and ways to correct at lease in part if not fully regain the hair. Many reasons have the same symptoms, which makes it difficult. However, this means also that there are more way to get back some if not all your hair. I would recommend this book and The Bald Truth by Spencer Kobren (even before The Truth about women's hair loss by Kobren). If you are considering a hair transplant please read this first.
There are other subjects that may come in handy for your friends and family too.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic!, April 27, 2009

By	T. Taft (New Orleans) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Here are your answers ladies. Get the book, most female problems, weight gain, loss, hair loss, adult acne, pre, peri, post- menapause, anything to do with period changes and more. He also sees patients in New York for $700 first visit, then will work with you over phone. For a last resort it is worth it, plus you can visit New York.

1.0 out of 5 stars waste of money, April 19, 2009

By	garnet10 - See all my reviews

This book had very little information in it. Dr. Redmond is supposed to be knowledgeable about hormones yet mentions little about using bio-identical hormones and doesn't seem to understand the function of progesterone. Don't waste your money or time on this one.