The Estrogen Decision: Self Help Book - Softcover

Lark, Susan M.

9780890877760: The Estrogen Decision: Self Help Book

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890877769 ISBN 13: 9780890877760

Publisher: Celestial Arts, 2004

Millions of women in America are making the estrogen decision every day. But recent conflicting data has made the choices more complicated. Hormone replacement therapy, or HRT, has been hurled into the eye of a controversial medical and media hurricane. Dr. Susan Lark has unraveled fact from fiction and presents the confused reader with clear information, weighing the obvious benefits against both the immediate and long-term side effects. Because each woman is physiologically unique, there is no right or wrong choice. But by presenting all the options, Dr. Lark can help the reader make an informed health care decision.

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Review:

Women have been relying on Susan Lark's self-help books on women's health issues for years. Now she addresses the major concern of women in menopause: whether or not to go on estrogen replacement therapy (ERT). "This decision has no 'one right answer,'" says Lark, because every woman is different in her symptoms, health needs, risks, and tolerance of ERT. Lark presents not just ERT, but also alternative therapies and treatment options, so each woman can make an informed decision.

Lark's style is personal, direct, and clear as she unravels the facts about hormone replacement (she's basically in favor of it), benefits and drawbacks of various treatments, menopausal symptoms and their causes, physical changes, and heart disease risk. She also discusses dietary changes that lessen menopausal symptoms--not just the usual "eat right," but specific foods that ease symptoms and others that worsen symptoms, with meal plans and a few recipes. Nutritional supplements, herbs, stress reduction, exercise advice, yoga postures, acupressure--it's all here. You'll come away feeling like you've had a personal consultation with this renowned doctor, an introduction to several alternatives, and a clearer picture of the course you want to follow. --Joan Price

About the Author:

DR. SUSAN M. LARK is one of the foremost authorities on women's health care and preventative medicine and is the author of nine books on women’s health issues. She has served on the faculty of Stanford University Medical School where she continues to teach in the Department of Family and Community Medicine.

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