| You could be experiencing unexplained weight gain, fatigue, mood swings, loss of libido, fibroids, tender or lumpy breasts, endometriosis, PMS, infertility, memory loss, migraines, very heavy or light periods, cold hands and feet, or a combination of these symptoms. You may have been told they're "nothing," or stress, or even menopause and offered surgery, anitdepressants, or prescription hormones. |
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But the startling truth is that you may be suffering from premenopause syndrome and there are simple, safe solutions. When John Lee wrote the groundbreaking What Your Doctor May Not Tell You about Menopause, younger women started asking if natural progesterone could help them, too. In this book Dr. Lee, now with women's health expert Jesse Hanley, M.D., brings you a revolutionary nonprescription "Balance Program" to restore your gynecological health, energy, and sex drive---and even slow the aging process before menopause, and beyond. |
AUTHOR INFORMATION
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John R. Lee, M.D., is internationally acknowledged as a pioneer and expert in the study and use of the hormone progesterone and on the subject of hormone replacement therapy for women. He used transdermal progesterone extensively in his clinical practice for nearly a decade, doing research that showed that it can reverse osteoporosis. Dr. Lee has had a distinguished medical career, including graduation from Harvard and the University of Minnesota Medical School. He retired from a thirty-year family practice in northern California a few years ago and ever since has been writing and traveling around the world, speaking to doctors, scientists, and lay people about progesterone. Dr. Lee taught a very popular course on optimal health at the College of Marin for fifteen years. He is the author of the best-selling book What Your Doctor May Not Tell you about Menopause (Warner Books, 1996) and editor of the John R. Lee, M.D., Medical Letter.
Jesse Hanley, M.D., is the medical director of Malibu Health Center and Malibu Health & Rehabilitation. She has been recognized on several occasions for her outstanding contributions to the holsitic medical community and was the health expert on Wake Up America for KFOX radio.
Virginia Hopkins, M.A., is a medical writer specializing in women's health and nutrition and has written or coauthored twenty-four books on women's health, alternative health, and nutrition.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Part I- Getting Acquainted
Life Cycles and Hormone Cycles
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Chapter 1- Premenopause as a Life Cycle
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Chapter 2- The Importance of Hormone Balance
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Chapter 3- The Estrogens: Angels of Life, Angels of Death
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Chapter 4- Progesterone and Progestins: The Great Protector and the Great Impostors
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Chapter 5- How We Got into Xenohormone Hell and How to Get Out
Part II- When Your Body Talks, Listen
What's Causing Premenopause Syndrome Symptoms
and How to Treat Them
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Chapter 6- How (and Why) to Keep Your Uterus and Save Your Cervix
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Chapter 7- Cycles, Follicles, and Ovaries
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Chapter 8- PMS: And When She Was Good She Was Very, Very Good, and When She Was Bad She Was Horrid |
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Chapter 9- Tired Adrenals Equals a Tired Woman
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Chapter 10- Other Premenopause Syndrome Symptoms and Solutions
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Chapter 11- The Dangers of Hormonal Contraceptives
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Chapter 12- The Relationship of Hormones to Breast Cancer and Other Women's Cancers
Part III: The Premenopause Balance Program
Practical Steps for Optimal Health
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Chapter 13- Restoring and Maintaining Balance
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Chapter 14- How Nutrition Affects Your Hormone Balance
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Chapter 15- How Exercise Affects Your Hormone Balance
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Chapter 16- How to Use Natural Progesterone
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Chapter 17- How to Use Other Natural Hormones | |
