Hormone Repair Manual: Every Woman's Guide to Healthy Hormones After 40

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This book states too much insulin causes weight gain. This has been disproven (PMID: 27385608). You may also consider the fact that GLP-1 receptor agonist medications increase insulin secretion and are associated with weight loss (PMID: 22236411). Sleep is another priority strategy for period health. Getting seven or eight hours of quality sleep each night will do more for you than almost any supplement or herb we discuss in this book. Why is sleep so important for hormones? For one thing, it stabilizes your HPA axis and cortisol. It also improves insulin sensitivity and regulates the release of luteinizing hormone (LH), estrogen, and progesterone. Sleep is more important than exercise. Hopefully, you have time in your day for both. If you have to choose between sleep and exercise, choose sleep! Aim for at least seven hours each and every night. If you have trouble sleeping, then please take a minute to consider the underlying reason.

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Other issues: she strongly discourages a vegan diet but gives no supporting evidence except that “vegan diets may be low in certain vitamins and minerals” 🙄 🙄 this can also be said for the typical western diet. For vegans, she recommends they take a number of supplements, like taurine, but doesn’t say why, what they do, how they will help, what a low level might do, what food sources might have them, and why a vegan might be “low” in the first place. Most of these things cannot be tested for—that is, you can’t know if you’re low or not. Me decanté por buscar libros en inglés y encontré este. La autora, si no me equivoco, no es médico. Sino que trabaja bajo la llamada naturopatía (medicina alternativa). Quiero aclarar esto porque la medicina alternativa NO está basada en la evidencia científica. La naturopatía se fundamenta sobre todo en cambios en el estilo de vida y la nutrición. No me disgusta, pero habiendo estudiado medicina lo mínimo que puedo hacer es dejar muy claro este punto. Granted, it sounds like I may have to permanently give up (Holstein) cow’s dairy, gluten, sugar, and alcohol to eliminate my migraines and other PMS and sleep issues. But at 36 I am starting to seriously consider what I am willing to sacrifice for my health instead of just being like “but I love cheese too much, the migraines are worth it!”. I love pizza but is it worth it if it is giving me insomnia and migraines and making me super tired? (And if I can still have delicious delicious buffalo mozzarella and pecorino romano, who even cares?)The book my patients have been waiting for.” ~ Dr. Peta Wright, gynecologist and women’s health advocate This lively, clear and supportive book provides positive and helpful information that many women need as they approach perimenopause and beyond.' Jerilynn C. Prior MD, author of Estrogen's Storm Season Even if you aren't currently experiencing period problems, I would still recommend this book to all women. Whether you're a teenager who just started menstruating, you're approaching menopause, or you're somewhere in between. Chances are, you'll experience period problems at some point in your life. I would have loved to have this book available to me when I started experiencing period problems myself at the age of 15. It's never too early or too late to take a good hard look at your period health and try to understand what your body is telling you. I truly believe as a society we have been gaslit into thinking that hormonal birth control is a feminist concept, but what would ACTUALLY be feminist is learning about the female body and teaching folks with a female reproductive system how to properly take care of it, and maybe, just maybe, doing some research into male birth control (as I understand the technology very much exists but funding for clinical trials and approval does not). I appreciate the author’s sentiment that she’s not 100% against using hormonal birth control, but it should be prescribed only if the person using it is fully aware of what it actually does to their body (it doesn’t “regulate your hormones” - it shuts them off) and/or other less invasive options have been carefully considered and ruled out if the birth control is being used for a medical condition. Which is typically never the case.

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The book my patients have been waiting for.' Dr Peta Wright, gynaecologist and women's health advocate

Hormone Repair Manual: Every woman's guide to healthy hormones after 40

Llevo varias semanas buscando libros sobre la menstruación para hacer un vídeo. Y siendo sincera, me ha resultado muy difícil. Más allá de libros de ginecología, no había prácticamente nada en español. Tanteé el terreno con Diario de un cuerpo (Erika Irusta) para conocer a fondo el ciclo menstrual y me encontré con una perspectiva feminista (BIEN) centrada en el tabú de la menstruación. Hormonas, cambios, ciclos; hasta ahí bien. El problema fue que toda esta maravilla nadaba en la verborrea innecesaria de la autora. The book states to aim for about 150 to 200 grams of carbs per day. You can’t give that recommendation when you don’t know anything about the reader besides maybe their sex. Briden hardly touches on PMDD. She possibly gives out a three line paragraph at the very beginning of the book, and a wrong description of what it actually is, at the very end of the book. She describes PMDD as a condition that just causes anxiety and depression. PMDD actually causes up to 40 psychological and physical symptoms, and I personally, suffer with around 37 of those, each month. I would love to know why something that woman have taken their own lives over, isn't recognised, and taken seriously enough. I do highly appreciate the information and overview of the different types of available birth control options. They were informative and piqued my interest to do some more researching. As for the information on how to enhance natural cycles, I feel like some changes could be made in terms of the book’s organization. As other reviewers have noted, the book encourages the reader to read the whole book, but then also is repetitive in repeating information and will redirect the reader to other chapters. Much of the information in this book is general how to be healthy information. I would have preferred an overview that gives this advice once at the beginning instead of repeating it for each section. Of course diet/exercise/reducing stress will be beneficial to all period problems.

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Your period is not just your period. It is an expression of your underlying health. When you are healthy, your menstrual cycle will arrive smoothly, regularly, and without symptoms. When you are unhealthy in some way, your cycle will tell the story. One of the core concepts of this book is that menstruation is a legitimate VITAL SIGN. It provides clues about your general health and whether your body and hormones are functioning properly. Yet, doctors generally opt to shut off this vital sign (with The Pill) when it starts telling us that something is wrong instead of trying to find out the cause and correct it. HOLY SHIT Y’ALL!!!! HOW IS THIS A THING!!!!???? Please let this sink in for a minute. We are essentially lobotomizing our reproductive systems, usually temporarily but sometimes permanently, because the medical establishment is unwilling to do any research into this topic because hormones are “too complicated.” How is this “do no harm”? Women commit suicide over severe PMS and it is well-known that hormonal birth control is linked to depression. I can’t say I’ve met anyone who has truly been happy with their experience on hormonal birth control – it is treated as a necessary evil, but apparently it doesn’t have to be that way. Why should we have to shut down a woman's entire hormonal system just to accomplish the simple job of preventing pregnancy? Fertility is an expression of health, not a disease to be treated with a drug." Hormone Repair Manual is published by Pan Macmillan. It’s a practical guide to feeling better in your 40s, 50s, and beyond. It explains how to navigate the change of perimenopause and relieve symptoms with natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, and bioidentical (body-identical) hormone therapy.

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I do wish the dietary recommendations were a bit more realistic. Majority of people, myself included, don't have the time or money for lamb shanks and salmon steaks as regular dinners (same for the breakfast and lunch suggestions), just saying. I felt that I had to disregard most of the diet suggestions and will have to figure out my own system for that. It seems geared toward people who have a good chunk of money and time, which I doubt is the majority of readers. Estrogen, etc and there’s significant clinical and observational research that says soy could help hormonal issues assuming the woman doesn’t have thyroid problems 🤷🏻‍♀️ Treatment protocols for all common perimenopause symptoms including night sweats, insomnia, migraines, and heavy periods.

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I am going to guess that this will probably be one of the most formative books I ever read in my life. I don’t know that it’s necessarily the best book out there on the topic, but because it’s the first one for me (you better believe I have like 8 more on hold at the library) it’s the one that is going to shift my thinking the most. Sabiendo algo de la autora, no me extrañó ver cómo demonizaba los fármacos, entre ellos la píldora anticonceptiva. Pero siendo totalmente justa, es cierto que es un libro que explica absolutamente todo con un millar de referencias a bases de datos científicas. Por fin, un libro donde se examina el ciclo menstrual al completo: fases, hormonas, ovulación... Y también todos los problemas que pueden surgir como períodos abundantes, dolorosos, endometriosis, etc. This book states that omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids found in vegetable oils promote inflammatory prostaglandins. This claim is not cited. In fact, omega 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids have not been shown to cause inflammation in humans (PMID:22889633) or even to increase arachidonic acid (PMID: 21663641). What’s more, a science advisory noted that in human studies, higher levels of omega-6 PUFAs were associated with decreased levels of proinflammatory markers and increased levels of antiinflammatory markers (PMID: 19171857).But the way Briden keeps talking about hormonal contraception throughout the book makes it seem like she believes it's a thing from the depths of hell. I had a bad experience with the pill and I know lots of people who went through the same things. But I also know a bunch of people for whom the pill works and that's marvelous for them and I hope it keeps helping them and I don't like how Briden insists that everyone should stop using it. The UL for vitamin B6 is 100 mg, but the book recommends supplementing up to 150 mg ( https://ods.od.nih.gov/factsheets/Vit...). I don’t like the snarky tone of this book or the I-know-better attitude of the author. Naturopathic medicine has so much to offer and I would hate for someone who could benefit from it to be put off by the attitude of it. You catch more flies with honey than vinegar! While the book has valid concerns about hormonal birth control, I’m not convinced that it has been as detrimental to women and women’s health as portrayed in the book. I could see this argument be used as a method of controlling women and reinforcing patriarchy and paternalism. Women should be informed about the risks and benefits of all types of birth control and then be supported to make the choice that is right for them without bias or judgement. Absolutely we should be advocating for better, healthier birth control options that have less side effects - but we still need to recognize that many birth control pills work well for many women. Period Repair Manual is published by Pan Macmillan and is your guide to better periods. It explains how to use natural treatments such as diet, nutritional supplements, herbal medicine, and bioidentical hormones and provides advice and tips for women of every age and situation. If you have a period (or want a period), then this book is for you. Essential reading for all women over 40, and their doctors!' Dr Natasha Andreadis, fertility specialist and host of the Fanny Mechanic podcast