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What if you could really feel better as you get older, or age without illness? What could be better than having your doctor tell you that you have the bones of a twenty-year-old, or the heart of a thirty-year-old? Follow the advice in Ageless, and you’ll discover your own internal fountain of youth! In this #1 New York Times bestseller, Suzanne Somers reveals the secrets to a younger, healthier, and sexier you.

Jam-packed with updated information on bioidentical hormone replacement and antiaging, Ageless will change your life forever. Suzanne talks about:

• Antiaging medicine and how it can help work against the environmental assault that is making us sick

• Menopause, which can become an enjoyable passage once the body is in perfect hormonal sync with bioidentical hormone replacement therapy

• Why so many hysterectomies are unnecessary, how birth control pills may have contributed to the rise of them, and how to restore your body to perfect hormonal balance after having one

• The importance of sleep and the healing work that nature does during this time.
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In Natural Hormone Balance for Women, Beverly Hills obstetrician-gynecologist Uzzi Reiss makes it clear that he believes in hormone replacement therapy for women, but not the "chemicalized hormonal substitutes" usually prescribed. "I emphasize natural hormones that are precise replicas of your own hormones," he writes, which can increase energy and memory, decrease symptoms of menopause and PMS, improve skin and mood, and enhance sleep, sexuality, and well-being. But neither the widely used hormonal medications, such as estrogens derived from horse urine, nor the "natural" hormonal products derived from soy or yams replicate the hormones produced by a woman's body. Rather, he recommends a natural estrogen formula balanced with natural progesterone, both available through compounding pharmacies (with a doctor's prescription).

Dr. Reiss and talented cowriter Martin Zucker explain why, how, and when to use natural hormones. This is not a snappy, one-size-fits-all program--rather, you, with the involvement of your physician, learn how to analyze your needs and individualize your treatment for your own optimal hormonal balance. Reiss describes the benefits and uses of natural estrogen and progesterone, then discusses other natural hormones that might be helpful: testosterone, human growth hormone, DHEA, melatonin, and pregnenolone. This is a provocative book that's worth sharing with your doctor. --Joan Price.
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The 2nd edition of Dr. Platt's highly informative award-winning health book, The Miracle of Bio-Identical Hormones, How I Lost My Fatigue, Hot Flashes, ADHD, ADD, Fibromyalgia, PMS, Osteoporosis, Weight, Sexual Dysfunction, Anger, Migraines, provides many answers to common medical problems by explaining their underlying cause and how hormone balance brings you wellness. Outstanding praise for this reader-friendly book both nationally and internationally, because of its new ideas on hormone replacement and its unique perspective for optimum health..
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Kenna Stephenson MD provides a selection of nearly sixty case studies from her current and prior practice that demonstrate how girls, adolescents, and women facing physical or emotional challenges have overcome them. Dr. Stephenson details Bioidentical hormones, stress reduction, and the mind/body connection with yoga and Bio-Touch, cinematherapy, bibliotherapy, dreamwork and much more. Readers will appreciate her detailed and extensive references on all of these subjects as well. Dr. Stephenson, a family medicine physician and researcher, wife, and mother of two, brings compassion and insight into the challenges faced by modern day life. *Even our most traumatic experiences do not sentence us to a life of misery and failure,* Dr. Stephenson says. *The power to change and overcome is within us all.* Those who read this book will certainly agree. Awakening Athena is a book about achieving balance in life. It is based on the Golden Mean (balance in living) advocated by Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom, war, and healing, and on the work of Dr. Carl Jung, which teaches that we can transform ourselves to our benefit by improving our health and well-being. Many women today live a life filled with deadlines and demands that leave little time for self-care. In Awakening Athena, author Kenna Stephenson, MD, shows us that to succeed at home and at work, we must first nurture and care for ourselves physically and emotionally. She then provides practical, affordable suggestions that women of any age, profession, or economic status can use to do so. Readers will appreciate the simple and effective recommendations for achieving a more balanced lifestyle, safeguarding health, and including self-nurturing care in even the most hectic schedule..
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Life Saving Benefits of Natural Hormone Balancing One would think that something as valuable as a medical discovery would achieve easy recognition and quickly develop into widespread use. The regrettable fact today is that large pharmaceutical companies dictate what therapies doctors are likely to prescribe. Once effective treatments lose patent protection, they fall into a deep abyss and are often forgotten in conventional medicine practice. The Textbook of Bio-Identical Hormones, authored by Edward Lichten, M.D., memorializes 100 years of discoveries made by pioneering physicians who have used non-patented, bio-identical hormones to prevent and treat a wide range of common diseases. Combating the Medical Establishment While battling an apathetic and often hostile medical establishment, Dr. Lichten has successfully applied, refined, and invented medical treatments that can reverse the course of disorders as diverse as migraine, type II diabetes, PMS, congestive heart failure, fibromyalgia, osteoporosis and insomnia. Treatments are supported in the scientific medical literature and/or reflect the many successful patient outcomes Dr. Lichten has observed in this practice. The case histories presented in the Textbook of Bio-Identical Hormones are by themselves compelling enough to make it a must read for physicians and health conscious individuals seeking safe, natural and effective approaches to intractable illnesses. For those not yet suffering serious disease, this book provides a roadmap for maturing women and men to safely restore their full compliment of youth hormones. The benefit of natural hormone restoration is the reversal of many unwanted effects that aging inflicts on the human body. About Edward Lichten Edward M. Lichten, M.D. became board certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1976. A Fellow of the College of Surgeons and the College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Dr. Lichten soon realized that standard medical therapy left too many individuals untreated. Dr. Lichten responded by systematically pursuing alternative medical, natural and then original bio-identical research until finding therapies that he could prove would work. He discovered the cause of menstrual pain--a simple treatment and potential cure in 1982; a non-psychiatric drug treatment for premenstrual syndrome and depression in 1985; a true breakthrough in the treatment of a woman's migraines and men's cluster headaches in 1989 and in 1991. His most cherished discover occurred in 1997 when he proved to his colleagues that diabetes in men is primarily a testosterone deficiency syndrome. Pictured with a few of his dedicated and "I-want-to-live-a-healthy-life-until-I'm-100-years-old" patients, Dr. Lichten believes that we have the science and understanding to live much longer and better lives. He practices what he preaches and writes scientific articles for his peers to review. A veteran speaker having given more than 100 lectures on four continents, Dr. Lichten remains dedicated to the dictum of 'treating one patient at a time' for his or her individual needs. Dr. Lichten practices in southeastern Michigan. He wrote this book because of the dangerous state of confusion about what women and men should do to properly balance their hormones. As Dr. Lichten stated: "This book serves as an outreach...to those who I will never meet, but will hopefully find effective solutions to their medical concerns via the information conveyed herein." Life Extension expects that the Textbook of Bio-Identical Hormones will soon become part of the library of thousands of innovative physicians around the world. The cover price of the Textbook of Bio-Identical Hormones is $49.95..
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The Perfect Menopause: 7 Steps to the Best Time of Your Life eliminates frustration and confusion about menopause and therapy by providing a clear, well organized, and unbiased guide for women to manage their most common menopause symptoms. Written by one of the worlds experts in menopause, an OB/GYN and expert herbalist with a PhD in Chemistry, Dr. Henry Hess brings together the best practices of over 25 years of experience treating menopausal women in 7 Steps that every woman can use with ease and confidence. Using the most up-to-date knowledge available in both natural and traditional medicine, including bioidentical hormones, The Perfect Menopause provides complete solutions for women experiencing hot flashes, weight gain, poor sleep, dryness and aging, and decreased sexual desire. By answering the most common questions about menopause and providing the best and scientifically sound approaches in herbs, medicines, and hormones in an easy-to-read format, Dr. Hess wise advice is welcomed by his peers as every menopausal womans second opinion in the consultation room, and praised by his patients as a gift they would give their best friends..
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