The What to Eat if You Have Cancer Cookbook
Author: Maureen Kean
Features more than 100 easy-to-prepare recipes that meet the unique dietary needs of cancer patients.
Interesting textbook: Cocina Asiatica or Antipasti and Tapas
HRT Solution: Optimizing Your Hormone Potential
Author: Marla Ahlgrimm
In the past hormone replacement therapy has relied on synthetic hormones or animal-derived hormone products that come only in standardized doses. While this therapy has worked for some women many others have found that it has no effect at all or worse, that it causes a host of unpleasant side effects. This should be no surprise, since every woman's hormonal profile is uniquely her own. The HRT Solution offers a new approach, therapy as natural and as individual as you are, using simple personalized hormone-level assessment and monitoring combined with customized doses of natural hormones that are identical to those your body makes. Finally, there is a better way to manage your health in menopause and beyond!
Table of Contents:
| Preface to the Second Edition | 1 | |
| Preface | 9 | |
| 1. | Individualized Natural Hormone Replacement | 17 |
| Your Hormonal Profile: As Unique as Your Fingerprint | ||
| Responding to HRT | ||
| What's Right for You? | ||
| The Choice Is Yours | ||
| 2. | Hormones 101 | 24 |
| What Are Hormones? | ||
| Your Body's Information Superhighway | ||
| How It Works | ||
| Hormone Production and Regulation | ||
| Checks and Balances | ||
| Supply and Demand | ||
| Bound and Free Hormones | ||
| Synchronicity | ||
| 3. | The Rise and Fall of Your Sex Steroid Hormones | 33 |
| The Rise ... | ||
| ... and the Fall | ||
| Sex Steroid Hormones: In a Class by Themselves | ||
| The Cast of Characters | ||
| Estrogen | ||
| Progesterone | ||
| The Estrogen-Progesterone Pas de Deux | ||
| Testosterone | ||
| Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) | ||
| Cortisol | ||
| Cortisol, DHEA, and the Effects of Stress | ||
| 4. | The Promise of HRT | 52 |
| What's Possible with HRT | ||
| The Hipbone's Connected to Your Hormones | ||
| Every Beat of Your Heart | ||
| Command Central: Your Brain | ||
| The Good News Outweighs the Bad, But ... | ||
| 5. | What About the Risks? | 62 |
| We've Come a Long Way: A Brief History of HRT | ||
| A Parallel Road: Natural Hormone Therapy | ||
| Patents and Profitability | ||
| What About the Breast Cancer Risk? | ||
| Play It Again--The Estrogen-Progesterone Pas de Deux | ||
| Evaluating the Data on HRT and Cancer | ||
| 6. | Changing the Status Quo | 74 |
| Out with the Old, in with the New | ||
| Understanding Replacement Hormones | ||
| Lock and Key | ||
| A Little Goes a Long Way | ||
| 7. | How Do I Know If HRT Is Right for Me? | 83 |
| Old, Outmoded Standards Have to Go | ||
| Your Spitting Image: Saliva Testing | ||
| Why Haven't I Heard About Saliva Testing? | ||
| Your Individual Hormonal Profile | ||
| Saliva Testing and Your Response to HRT | ||
| 8. | Pharmacy for the Twenty-First Century | 98 |
| Tablets, Patches, Creams, and More | ||
| Suppositories | ||
| Orals: Capsules and Tablets | ||
| Transdermals | ||
| Symptoms as a Hormonal Barometer | ||
| 9. | Protection for Your Bones | 114 |
| Important Pieces of the Picture | ||
| Bone Mineral Density Tests | ||
| Bone-Resorption Testing: An Investment Counselor for Your Bones | ||
| Deoxypyridinoline and HRT | ||
| Valerie's Story | ||
| Brenda's Story | ||
| Roxanne's Story | ||
| Comprehensive Bone Care | ||
| 10. | Your Lifestyle and Your Hormones | 123 |
| What's Stress Got to Do with It? | ||
| Enid: Active and Health-Conscious | ||
| Mary: Busy Single Mother | ||
| Louisa: High-Stress and Loving It | ||
| Pamela: Exhausted by Stress | ||
| The Effects of Exercise | ||
| The Impact of Diet | ||
| The Importance of Individuality | ||
| 11. | Putting It All Together | 138 |
| Lana's Story | ||
| Jane Ann's Story | ||
| Celeste's Story | ||
| Elly's Story | ||
| Randa's Story | ||
| Frieda's Story | ||
| 12. | Getting Started | 149 |
| Becoming an Active Participant | ||
| Working with Your Doctor | ||
| Asking for What You Want | ||
| Meeting Resistance | ||
| Understanding Your Medical Plan | ||
| The Importance of You | ||
| Epilogue: The Future of HRT | 161 | |
| Appendix | Letter of Medical Necessity | 171 |
| References | 177 | |
| Glossary | 189 | |
| Bibliography for Further Reading | 199 | |
| Your Own Individualized Natural Hormone Replacement Program | 202 | |
| Saliva Hormone Testing and Urine Bone-Loss Testing | 204 | |
| Index | 205 |
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