The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow [Hardcover]

Phuli Cohan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 14, 2008 | ISBN-10: 0471744840 | ISBN-13: 978-0471744849 | Edition: 1

A female doctor who has spent more than two decades studying the relationship between hormones and menopause presents a safe, effective program for using natural and bioidentical hormones to combat hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, and many other symptoms linked to menopause-related hormone imbalances. Combining traditions of Chinese medicine with the latest Western developments and discoveries, this easy-to-follow ten-step program helps you create a personalized course of treatment using supplements, herbs, natural and bio-identical hormones, and diet to enhance both safety and hormone effectiveness.

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"After having experienced various difficult peri-menopausal and menopausal symptoms for years, I was helped greatly by Dr. Phuli Cohan's unique approach to treatment, which integrates elements of her training in Western, Chinese, and Ayurvedic medicines."
—Nina Simonds, author of A Spoonful of Ginger and Spices of Life

Perimenopause, the five to fifteen years before meno-pause, is fraught with symptoms that are often ignored, or worse, tolerated. You can't avoid perimenopause or menopause, but you can avoid the suffering, loss of energy, and emotional ups and downs that accompany them. You can also retain your skin and muscle tone, feel as vigorous and healthy as ever, and enjoy an activesex life. And you don't have to risk your long-term health to do it.

In The Natural Hormone Makeover, a female doctor who has spent more than two decades studyingthe relationship between hormones and menopause presents a safe and effective program for using natu-ral and bioidentical hormones to combat hot flashes, insomnia, mood swings, fatigue, breast pain, hair loss, low sex drive, and many other symptoms linked to menopause-related hormone imbalances.

This easy-to-follow ten-step treatment program educates and empowers you to make the best choices to improve your symptoms and feel healthier, happier, and sexier. Combining traditions of Chinese medicine with the latest Western developments and discoveries, this regimen helps you create a personalized course of treatment using supplements, herbs, natural and bio-identical hormones, and diet to enhance both safety and hormone effectiveness.

You'll learn everything you need to know about:

• The seven different forms of estrogen and how their "personalities" affect you

• Bioidentical hormones and why they are safer and more effective than hormone replacement therapy

• The importance of the adrenal gland in improving symptoms and slowing the aging process

• Cutting-edge discoveries concerning hormone metabolism, dietary supplements, and safety

• Altering the effects of lifestyle, environment, and genetics on hormone balance

• Chinese herbal treatments and why they help you to metabolize your body's own hormones more completely

• Assembling a team of health professionals to ensure the safety and effectiveness of your hormone makeover

If you've been confused about your health and whether you need or can use hormones safely, you're not alone. Judging by the rash of false claims, misguided warnings, and faulty explanations in recent years, so are many of the so-called experts. The Natural Hormone Makeover gives you clear, authoritative, scientifically proven in-formation you can trust. Read it and start to rediscover your inner glow today.

From the Back Cover

How To Make Menopause A Healthier, Happier, And Sexier Time Of Life

"Finally, a medically researched book that gives the big picture on all of our hormones and how they are interrelated. This book is a survival manual for those of us who want sound medical alternatives for keeping healthy."
—Jan Bergstrom, M.Ed., L.M.H.C.

"One book that every woman should read—and give to her daughter, her mother, and her friends—is The Natural Hormone Makeover. Dr. Cohan combines a brilliant mind and a tender heart to give readers a book that can truly make a difference in their lives."
—Ellen S. Glazer, L.I.C.S.W., author of Experiencing Infertility and The Long-Awaited Stork

The Natural Hormone Makeover shows you how to correct perimenopause- and menopause-related hormone imbalances safely by using natural or bioidentical hormones—many of which are available at the drugstore or health food store—instead of risky hormone replacement therapy. You'll learn how to determine which of your hormones—including estrogen, testosterone, DHEA, HGH, progesterone, and melatonin—may be unbalanced and create a personalized program to rebalance and support these hormones with natural hormone supplements, creams, and hormone-stimulating foods. This unique anti-aging approach to menopause also includes a list of the foods that are the most powerful in healing the effects of hormone imbalance and keeping you young and healthy for decades to come. This book is a must-read whether you are thirty-five and just beginning to notice changes or fifty-plus and confused about what to do.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 288 pages
• Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (January 14, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0471744840
• ISBN-13: 978-0471744849
• Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 1 x 9.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #95,672 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars STARTING POINT FOR JOURNEY BACK TO OPTIMAL HEALTH, July 18, 2008

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This review is from: The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Hardcover)

After years of chasing down mysterious symptoms, and not finding relief through traditional medicine in spite of numerous specialty referrals, I found Dr. Cohan's book "the natural hormone makeover". I knew after reading the Introduction on page 1 that she had something different to offer to discover the root of my health problems. As Dr. Cohen discusses in Step 1 of her hormone makeover, traditional doctors convinced me my symptoms were a natural part of aging. I blindly submitted to their expertise and accepted their diagnosis until my symptoms became unbearable. Dr. Cohan's insights and advice motivated me to research hormone balance. Her book provides excellent information and practical advice for women, particularly those of us over 40, who want to live their lives at an optimal level. Dr. Cohen explains the relationship between health and hormones along with her suggested ten-step hormone makeover. She provides information on symptoms and advice on lab tests. She emphasizes the need to find the right doctor and support team. Armed with her book, I was able to stand up to the doctors offering the diagnosis that my symptoms were part of aging and demand more than prescriptions of pain pills and anti-depressants that worsened my health rather than improved it. Motivated by Dr. Cohen's advice, I eventually found a Naturopathic Physician who ordered the more accurate saliva hormone tests (which contradicted the traditional blood tests) and began a course of hormone therapy to overcome estrogen dominance. While it is too early to report all symptoms are resolved, it is a relief to better understand the relationship between my health and hormones and I feel confident I am on the right track to optimal health. Dr. Cohan also recommended reading "Ancient Healing for Modern Women" by Zhao, Xiaolan which also helped with my journey toward optimal health. Dr. Cohan's book is a great starting point to gain a better understanding of hormone balance and is helpful to find the right medical support to regain optimal health. Other books I found helpful on this journey toward optimal health include:

The Natural Superwoman: The Scientifically Backed Program for Feeling Great, Looking Younger, and Enjoying Amazing Energy at Any Age (Hardcover) by Uzzi Reiss (Author), Yfat Reiss Gendell (Author)

Natural Hormone Balance for Women: Look Younger, Feel Stronger, and Live Life with Exuberance (Paperback) by Uzzi Reiss (Author), Martin Zucker (Contributor)

Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple: The Essential How-to Guide to Symptoms, Dosage, Timing, and More (Paperback) by John R. Lee (Author), Virginia Hopkins (Author)

Ancient Healing for Modern Women: Traditional Chinese Medicine for All Phases of a Woman's Life (Paperback) by Xiolan Zhao (Author), Xiaolan Zhao (Author)

The Perimenopause & Menopause Workbook: A Comprehensive, Personalized Guide to Hormone Health (Paperback) by Kathryn R. Simpson (Author), Dale E. Bredesen (Author)

The Mindful Way through Depression: Freeing Yourself from Chronic Unhappiness (Paperback) by J. Mark G. Williams (Author), John D. Teasdale (Author), Zindel V. Segal (Author), Jon Kabat-Zinn (Author)

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best information on hormones, October 9, 2009

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This review is from: The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Hardcover)

I found this book more useful than other books specifically about hormones in perimenopause and menopause because it doesn't just look at sex hormones but rather looks at all of our hormones and their interrelationships. Based on the approach of the brilliant Belgian endocrinologist, Dr. Thierry Hertoghe, Dr. Phuli's book is filled with information that helped me to determine what hormones were deficient and how to safely rebalance and support them. I especially appreciate the fact that this book empowered me to take charge of my own health and to find health care professionals to work with me whose approaches were compatible with mine. I've had tremendous success dealing with the effects of low sex, thyroid, and adrenal hormones (fatigue, brain fog, hot flashes, etc). Let's just say I was a mess, and now I feel great.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful and hopeful, May 28, 2010

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Jill Nuti "Jill RPh" (San Ramon Ca) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Hardcover)

I am a compounding pharmacist and this book is a great reference material for my many patients with questions. It is also very helpful for the practitioner that is new to Hormone replacement