Balance Your Hormones: The Drug-free Guide to Improving Your Hormonal Health

by Patrick Holford BSc, DipION, FBANT, Kate Neil

Overview

Unbalanced hormones play havoc with women's lives and cause problems ranging from PMS and endometriosis to fibroids, breast cancer and menopausal problems. In BALANCE YOUR HORMONES Patrick Holford explains how, by making simple changes to your diet and lifestyle, you can restore the natural hormone balance in your body and return to a state of good, natural health.
BALANCE YOUR HORMONES is packed with practical advice, backed up by the latest scientific research which continues to reveal new understanding of the role of food, nutrition and environment in hormonal health. The new chapters cover how hormones work; why hormonal problems are on the increase; what you can do to promote your own hormonal health; safe, natural strategies for restoring, maintaining and promoting your health; nutritional advice for preventing and overcoming problems associated with hormonal imbalance; and the problems associated with the synthetic hormones used in the Pill and HRT and how to overcome them naturally.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780749953393
Publisher:	Little, Brown Book Group
Publication date:	06/28/2011
Edition description:	Updated
Pages:	416
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Patrick Holford BSc, DipION, FBANT, NTCRP pioneers new approaches to health and nutrition. He is the founder of the Institute for Optimum Nutrition in London (Europe's leading training centre for nutritional therapists), is Chief Executive of the Food for the Brain Foundation and the author of over 30 books.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Guide to Abbreviations, Measures and References viii

Introduction xi

Part 1 The Role of Hormones l

1 The Female Life Cycle 3

2 The Rise of Hormonal Health Problems 13

3 Hormonal Overload 19

4 The Problem with Stress 36

5 How to Avoid Hormone Disrupters 39

Part 2 Staying Hormonally Healthy 45

6 The Gut-Hormone Connection 47

7 Cut Sugar and Control your W8 59

8 Beating PMS with Diet 77

9 Natural Solutions for Heavy and Painful Periods 89

10 Promoting a Healthy Sex Life 93

11 Fertility Rights and Wrongs 103

12 Balancing Your Hormones During Pregnancy 109

13 The Secrets of a Trouble-free Menopause 119

Part 3 Staying Free From Hormone-related Diseases 137

14 Underactive Thyroid-A Common Cause of Chronic Fatigue 139

15 Migraines, Headaches and Hormones 146

16 Conquering Candida 152

17 Stopping Cystitis 166

18 Preventing Polycystic Ovaries 171

19 The Hidden Epidemic: Endometriosis 180

20 How to Prevent Breast Lumps and Cancer 194

21 Preventing and Reversing Osteoporosis 206

Part 4 Balancing Your Hormones Naturally 227

22 Oestrogen and Progesterone in Detail 229

23 The Pill and HRT - Exploding the Myths 242

24 Bio-identical Hormones - A Safer Alternative 253

25 Testing for Hormone Imbalances 277

Part 5 Your Action Plan for Hormonal Health 287

26 Diet for the Good Life 289

27 Phytonutrients-The Hormone Helpers 310

28 Supplementary Benefit 317

Appendix 1 The Hormonal Health Questionnaire 323

Appendix 2 The GL Scores of Common Foods 328

Appendix 3 The Acid and Alkaline Levels of Foods 332

Appendix 4 High-amine Foods 334

Appendix 5 Phytoestrogens in Food 338

Appendix 6 Diakath Breathing 340

Recommended Reading 343

Resources 345

References 358

index 379