What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause
by John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins
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- Paperback
- Condition
- Used Good
- ISBN 10
- 0446614955
- ISBN 13
- 9780446614955
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Synopsis
Women considering hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for menopause symptoms and health benefits should read this controversial, provocative book first. "Advertising and research dollars are spent trying to convince women that estrogen will cure everything from heart disease to Alzheimer's, " writes John R. Lee, M.D., "but there is scant evidence for any of these claims and reams of evidence that synthetic estrogens are highly toxic and carcinogenic." Lee has studied the research and concludes that estrogen is not the magic bullet for protection against heart disease and osteoporosis, nor does it retard aging. Natural progesterone, instead, puts postmenopausal women's hormones in balance, says Lee. He cites study after study that indicates that natural progesterone, obtained in cream form, delivers what the usual HRT only promises. "Menopause as a disease has been largely fabricated by physicians and the pharmaceutical industry, " says this leader of a "quiet but powerful revolution" regarding HRT. "What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause covers the benefits of natural progesterone, the history and politics of the medical
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- Bookseller
- Firefly Bookstore LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 218130
- Title
- What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause
- Author
- John R. Lee, Virginia Hopkins
- Format/Binding
- Mass Market Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0446614955
- ISBN 13
- 9780446614955
- Publisher
- Grand Central Publishing
- Place of Publication
- Boston, Massachusetts, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- September 2004
- Pages
- 560
- Bookseller catalogs
- Health/Women/Menopause;
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