The What to Eat if You Have Cancer Cookbook or HRT Solution

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

Get Well with the Hay Diet or Blood Sweat and 2nd Gear

Get Well with the Hay Diet: Food Combining and Good Health

Author: Jackie Habgood

The Hay diet, devised by an American surgeon named William Hay, involves separating carbohydrate meals from protein meals, enabling the body to digest food more easily. Using an easy-to-follow outline of food combining, complete with meal suggestions and food lists, this book will explain how to recover from digestive problems, low blood sugar levels, candida, allergies, food intolerances, and other illnesses by adapting everyday eating patterns to the Hay diet. With details of symptoms in each case, advice on diet and nutrition, and guidance on the Hay diet itself, the book clearly shows how full health can be restored in a remarkably short time. It also explains how weight can be controlled with the Hay diet. Get Well with the Hay Diet is an excellent resource for those who feel constantly under par, fatigued, or vaguely unwell and do not understand why. Jackie Habgood suffered health problems for 10 years before discovering the benefits of the Hay diet. She has since taught the subject at adult education centers and lectures widely on the subjects of diet and health awareness. She is the author of The Hay Diet Made Easy.

New interesting book: Asia in Crisis or GAIA Connections

Blood, Sweat and 2nd Gear: More Medicine for Motorcyclists

Author: Flash Gordon

What is the best thing to do when the bike goes down and you suffer a bad patch of "road rash?" How do you prevent infection and minimize scarring? Answers to these questions and practical advice on many other medical situations motorcyclists encounter, are contained in this new volume from flash gordon, m.d. For years, gordon has been dispensing practical medical advice with a liberal dose of dry humor through his "Medical Motorcycling" column in Motorcycle Consumer News. As a doctor who rides motorcycles, he combines knowledge gained from many years of medical practice with the straightforward non-nonsense style of a veteran rider. He has the knack of explaining medical conditions and injuries in plain language that makes sense, and does so in an entertaining and highly informative style. Though the advice is directed to motorcyclists, all the medical information he provides is applicable to the general public, and has been enhanced by clever illustrations by Craig Harrison.