Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health: Take Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Well-Being
Make lifestyle changes that will impact your health and well-being for life!
Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health will help women feel like they are talking to a trusted friend, who is also an ob-gyn physician. This guide offers medical science, the author’s practical experience, and a faith perspective to the spectrum of both physical and mental/emotional health issues women face throughout the various stages of their lives.
 
Topic areas include hormones, infertility, and pregnancy; diseases that especially affect women; women’s mental health (stress, anxiety, depression, etc.); lifestyle and disease prevention; interacting with her doctor and today’s healthcare system; and slowing down/aging. With important information that moms can also teach their adolescent girls, this book will be a frequent go-to for female health questions.
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Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health: Take Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Well-Being
Make lifestyle changes that will impact your health and well-being for life!
Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health will help women feel like they are talking to a trusted friend, who is also an ob-gyn physician. This guide offers medical science, the author’s practical experience, and a faith perspective to the spectrum of both physical and mental/emotional health issues women face throughout the various stages of their lives.
 
Topic areas include hormones, infertility, and pregnancy; diseases that especially affect women; women’s mental health (stress, anxiety, depression, etc.); lifestyle and disease prevention; interacting with her doctor and today’s healthcare system; and slowing down/aging. With important information that moms can also teach their adolescent girls, this book will be a frequent go-to for female health questions.
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Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health: Take Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Well-Being

Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health: Take Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Well-Being

by Carol Peters-Tanksley MD, DMIN
Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health: Take Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Well-Being

Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health: Take Charge of Your Physical and Emotional Well-Being

by Carol Peters-Tanksley MD, DMIN

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Make lifestyle changes that will impact your health and well-being for life!
Dr. Carol's Guide to Women's Health will help women feel like they are talking to a trusted friend, who is also an ob-gyn physician. This guide offers medical science, the author’s practical experience, and a faith perspective to the spectrum of both physical and mental/emotional health issues women face throughout the various stages of their lives.
 
Topic areas include hormones, infertility, and pregnancy; diseases that especially affect women; women’s mental health (stress, anxiety, depression, etc.); lifestyle and disease prevention; interacting with her doctor and today’s healthcare system; and slowing down/aging. With important information that moms can also teach their adolescent girls, this book will be a frequent go-to for female health questions.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781629986814
Publisher: Charisma Media
Publication date: 02/02/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 304
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Carol Peters-Tanksley, MD, DMin (known professionally as Dr. Carol) is an ob-gyn physician, ordained Christian minister, and talk-show host. She has practiced medicine for over twenty years and is board certified in obstetrics-gynecology and reproductive endocrinology. Dr. Carol received her medical degree from Loma Linda University and completed an Ob-Gyn residency at Loma Linda University Medical Center, Loma Linda, California. Dr. Carol hosts the Dr. Carol Show radio program, produced with her husband, Al Tanksley. It airs weekly on SiriusXM radio Ch131 (FamilyTalk), as well as various over-the-air radio stations, and via the internet on www.drcarolshow.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction xii

1 What Is a Healthy Woman? 1

Section 1 Reproductive Health

2 What's Normal and What's Not 11

3 When It's Not Normal, Part 1: Pain 22

4 When It's Not Normal, Part 2: Bleeding 33

5 Contraception 45

6 Your Healthy Pregnancy 58

7 All About Infertility 70

8 When Menopause Begins 84

Section 2 Long-Term Health

9 Eat to Live 97

10 Managing Your Weight 108

11 Cancer Prevention for Women 119

12 Diseases Older Women Face 130

13 Staying Younger Longer 141

Section 3 You and Your Doctor

14 Visiting Your Doctor 155

15 Do You Really Need That Test? 166

16 Navigating the Health-Care System 178

17 Evaluating and Using Supplements 189

Section 4 Mental and Emotional Health

18 Your Mind or Your Body-Which Is It? 201

19 A Woman's Troubled Mind 211

20 Hormones and the Mind 221

21 Connect With Your Husband Sexually 231

22 Managing Stress Well 242

23 Spirituality and Health 253

24 It's Never Too Late 262

Appendix A Infertility Testing and Treatment 268

Appendix B Quitting Smoking 273

Notes 275

Index 284

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