When Your Hormones Go Haywire: Solutions for Women over 40 [Paperback]

Pamela M. Smith (Author)

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Publication Date: March 1, 2005

You Can Feel Good Again A great book, loaded with practical information from an author I love and respect. If Pam Smith said it, I believe it. She's the best! ----DR. KEVIN LEMAN, Author of The Birth Order Book and Sex Begins in the Kitchen In When Your Hormones Go Haywire Pam Smith draws on breakthrough research to provide you with proven step-by-step solutions that will help you regain hormonal balance as you choose how to navigate the challenges of midlife. It includes: * Help in deciding how to respond to the latest research on hormone replacement therapy. * Natural solutions for: ? Fatigue ? Weight Gain ? Anxiety ? Hot Flashes ? Irritability ? Low Libido ? Fuzzy Thinking ? Memory Loss ? Insomnia ? Depression ? Headaches ? Achy Joints * A 12 Week Action Plan to achieve hormone balance and nourish yourself, body and soul. * Recipes to help you increase daily energy and feel healthy again. Pam Smith knows that midlife transition can sometimes be tough. In When Your Hormones Go Haywire she helps you discover how it can also be an opportunity for personal growth and renewal, a time in which you emerge as a stronger, healthier woman in every respect.

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You Can Feel Good Again

A great book, loaded with practical information from an author I love and respect. If Pam Smith said it, I believe it. She’s the best! ––DR. KEVIN LEMAN, Author of The Birth Order Book and Sex Begins in the Kitchen

In When Your Hormones Go Haywire Pam Smith draws on breakthrough research to provide you with proven step-by-step solutions that will help you regain hormonal balance as you choose how to navigate the challenges of midlife. It includes:

• Help in deciding how to respond to the latest research on hormone replacement therapy. • Natural solutions for: ? Fatigue ? Weight Gain ? Anxiety ? Hot Flashes ? Irritability ? Low Libido ? Fuzzy Thinking ? Memory Loss ? Insomnia ? Depression ? Headaches ? Achy Joints • A 12 Week Action Plan to achieve hormone balance and nourish yourself, body and soul. • Recipes to help you increase daily energy and feel healthy again.

Pam Smith knows that midlife transition can sometimes be tough. In When Your Hormones Go Haywire she helps you discover how it can also be an opportunity for personal growth and renewal, a time in which you emerge as a stronger, healthier woman in every respect.

About the Author

Pamela M. Smith, R.D., is the author of several bestselling books, including Eat Well, Live Well; food for Life; and The Energy Edge. A sought-after national expert on women's health, she is also a leader in the wellness movement and a popular speaker and media guest. Pam's daily radio tips for Living Well are broadcast across North America and in seven foreign countries. Through her work with nationally famous sports figures such as Shaquille O'Neal and sports organizations such as the Orlando Magic, the WNBA, and the PGA, Pam Smith has earned a place as one of America's most trusted nutritionists.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Zondervan; Rev Upd edition (March 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0310257360
• ISBN-13: 978-0310257363
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #798,825 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Surprising! And excellent!, November 20, 2005

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faience (Murrells Inlet, SC USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: When Your Hormones Go Haywire: Solutions for Women over 40 (Paperback)

I sympathize with another reviewer who was not expecting a Christian book when she bought this. I was unsure about it myself. But it turned out to be so medically excellent that I'd hate for readers to reject it on that account alone.

The amount of space devoted to spiritual advice is very small. Most chapters deal with their subject alone ("Phytoestrogens," "Soothing the angry gut," "Skin Hair and Bones," "Menstrual Migraines" etc.). Even the chapter on Stress mentions God only briefly at the end, and its info on the relationship between stress hormones and female hormones was enlightening. Part 5, "The Power for Change," talks a bit more about God, but even there, the emotional emphasis is on embracing change and connecting with others. Christianity is only part of a chapter that, in turn, is only 9 pages anyway. References to the helpfulness of prayer are sprinkled throughout the book, but sparsely, and many of those reference the Hebrew Bible.

I completely support any readers who want no Christian slant in such a book. This one just isn't for you. But many non-Christian readers might not mind Smith's light touch. She believes that a spiritual center can be immensely beneficial during stress and change, and there's a lot to be said in favor of that. Though Smith might be horrified by my saying this, a reader can easily substitute her personal spirituality, Buddhism, the Tao, anything, for Smith's.

Smith is NO lightweight when it comes to medicine and nutrition. She never talks down to the reader or oversimplifies. I thought I was already pretty knowledgeable, but was surprised by how much biology and physiology I learned. It's very up-to-date as of my writing this review, and covers HRT studies that have recently made the news. Boxes in the margins organize and emphasize important points and information.

Coverage of nutrition is thorough and intelligent, not only about what to eat, but also the importance of timing. There's a nice recipe section for those who like to cook, and terrific general food advice that lets those of us with a cooking-aversion put together a good simple eating plan for balancing blood sugar, energy, mood, and weight.

The only weak point, to me, was the insomnia chapter. It was the standard advice about making the bedroom dark and cool enough, not using it for work or other stress activities, winding down, avoiding spicy foods, etc. etc. Heard it all before! Then again, I'm not finding any better advice anywhere else, and these are sound principles, just a bit wimpy in coping with a perimenopause insomnia. Smith's blood-sugar balancing diet can help these nighttime problems.

Great book for Christian women, still great for non-Christians who buy it knowingly, and can take the many benefits it offers, cafeteria-style!

19 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Take Charge of the Change ( Balancing Hormones), April 24, 2003

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This review is from: Take Charge of the Change (Hardcover)

This is a FANTASTIC book. I have looked for almost 10 years for answers as to why I developed migraine headaches. I asked my family doctor, gyn, neurologist. None came with any answers. I just knew there was an answer (and maybe a simple one!) out there to help. Well-here it is. This book explains the whole hormone "mystery." It explains IT ALL and WHAT TO DO! and simply. She also is a Christian. (yipee!) You will be so happy to have found this helpful, enlightening, info.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great book with great information, September 13, 2008

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deannaot (SLC, UT USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: When Your Hormones Go Haywire: Solutions for Women over 40 (Paperback)

This book has great information for understanding changes during perimenopause. It covers the wide range of symptoms women go through very well, and the information is scientifically based. It is a great balance of sound nutritional information, not too far on the holistic side, but full of natural solutions to various symptoms--great nutritional information! It is the best perimenopause book I have read. I definitely recommend it, and I have heard Pam Smith speak in person, and I agree with her advice.