What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About(TM): Premenopause: Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty
by John R. Lee, Jesse Hanley, Virginia Hopkins
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Author: Jesse Hanley, John R. Lee, Virginia HopkinsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 1999-01-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Warner Wellness
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Book Review: An Important Read - Even a Decade Later.
Summary: 5 Stars
"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause" is a paradigm shifting book in women's health that I think should be required reading for women of all ages. The authors, as well as many other holistic practitioners, have found that many of the symptoms common in women from about their 30s until menopause such as monthly migraines and PMS are caused by estrogen dominance (a termed coined by Dr. Lee) and are easily correctable with progesterone cream, as well as diet, exercise, and lifestyle. The authors explain, however, that progesterone is no panacea, and it's pointless to add it if a woman is going to have an unhealthy diet and sedentary lifestyle.
Why bio-identical progesterone and not Premarin ® (PREgnant MARe urINe hormones)? Author John Lee, M.D. was among the first to sound the alarm to the general public about the dangers of taking synthetic female hormones, equine hormones (such as Premarin ®), and estrogen unopposed by progesterone. This book not only discusses the dangers of the above, but explicitly shows women how to balance their hormones through diet, exercise, lifestyle, and bio-indentical progesterone. It is so thorough and well-written that the reader should have no doubts on when and how to safely use bio-indentical progesterone.
Why is this 1999 book still relevant? A National Institutes of Health (NIH) 2004 press release about the Women's Health Initiative study reads, "The estrogen-plus-progestin trial was stopped after 5.6 years of follow-up because of an increased risk of breast cancer and because the risk of breast cancer, coronary heart disease, stroke, and blood clots outweighed the benefits on hip fracture and colorectal cancer." Yet doctors today routinely endanger women's health by prescribing synthetic and/or horse hormones that don't match hormone receptor sites in the human body, and unopposed estrogen. Typically doctors are educated by the pharmaceutical industry which has profit in mind, not Dr. Lee who had women's optimal health in mind.
By the way, the breast cancer section of this book is outstanding, and should be read by any woman with a concern about or history or family history of breast cancer. It makes some key points on prevention.
As a 10 year-old book according to as of this writing, not much about the book is out-of-date with the notable exception of amounts of supplements recommended. For example, they say not much is known about vitamin D, and they recommend 100 to 400 IU. Ten years later, much is known about vitamin D, including the fact most Americans, Canadians and Europeans are too low in it and need 1,000 to 4,000 IU daily in the winter months to help not only with healthy bones but an optimal immune system. The book also recommends taking pre-formed vitamin A, which is now known to be associated with osteoporosis. If the reader uses the supplements recommended, I suggest she look up the amounts recommended for optimal health based on current knowledge. They also say to supplement with vitamin E, failing to mention that the unnatural "dl" form of vitamin E is virtually useless, whereas the benefits are found in the natural "d" form. (Look on the label for the form.)
I have a quibble here and there in the nutrition section (no, strict vegetarians do not all need to supplement zinc, provided they eat nuts regularly). Overall, however, the nutrition section is very thorough, even discussing food allergies and the avoidance of yeast infections.
There are a lot more books on bioidentical hormones than there were when this book was published in 1999. But you can't go wrong with this one.
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