Savvy Woman's Guide to Estrogen Making Sense of Hysteria After the Women's Health Initiative

Finally, a book that rebuts the negative headlines that caused a "hormone hysteria" after the misunderstood Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study. Millions of women are told to stop all hormones. Women are offered antidepressants or herbs, and end up taking multiple drugs to treat their various hormonal symptoms. Estrogen affects over four hundred functions in women's bodies. Low estrogen can cause a myriad of common problems from restless sleep to memory loss, palpitations, joint pain, muscle aches, low sex drive, irritability, headaches, depressed or anxious mood, hot flashes, and vaginal dryness. Are all estrogens the same? NO. U.S. women have traditionally been given a cook-book-"one-size-fits-all"-approach with Premarin and Provera for menopause. WHI showed this was not the best approach. There are better options. Biodentical hormone options have been widely available overseas for over thirty years. The international approach offers hormone options that mainstream American medicine overlooks. Women need real answers and real solutions-NOW! Dr. Vliet's reader-friendly, practical guide helps women sort through the maze of hormone hype and hysteria to find medically sound options based on the latest peer-reviewed, research-based scientific literature from leading international menopause clinicians and researchers, as well as her own extensive clinical experience treating midlife women.Vliet, Elizabeth Lee is the author of 'Savvy Woman's Guide to Estrogen Making Sense of Hysteria After the Women's Health Initiative', published 2007 under ISBN 9781933213026 and ISBN 1933213027.