Healthy Menopause (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781511965378)

Do you want to be free of hot flashes, insomnia, fatigue, anxiety, depression, vaginal and skin dryness and other uncomfortable symptoms of menopause? Do you want to restore your hormonal health and balance and enjoy radiant health and wellness? Then, Healthy Menopause is an essential book for you.

Written by Susan Richards, M.D., best selling author and one of the most renowned women's alternative medicine experts, this incredible guide to healing from menopause symptoms and restoring your hormonal health and balance contains her all natural and very effective treatment program. Her program has helped thousands of her menopause patients gain dramatic relief from their debilitating and uncomfortable symptoms.

Dr. Richards program for menopause relief is incredibly effective, safe and fast acting and has enabled her patients to avoid the use of conventional hormone replacement therapy with its many side effects and health issues including an increased risk of heart disease and breast cancer. Her book also includes her expert knowledge of the most up-to-date medical and alternative therapy research in this field.

In this book, Dr. Richards shares with you:

- Important information on the major female hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and DHEA and how they affect the body and how production of these hormones changes as a woman enters menopause

- In-depth discussion of the symptoms of menopause including hot flashes, sleeplessness and insomnia, mood swings, fatigue and vaginal and bladder changes. Other topics discussed include osteoporosis, arthritis, skin and hair thinning and dryness, heart disease and stroke and how to prevent and correct these issues using Dr. Richards all natural treatment program

- Very helpful workbook for evaluating your menopause symptoms and questionnaires to assess your risk factors of other midlife health conditions like heart disease, osteoporosis, thyroid disease and breast cancer

- Essential chapters on bioidentical hormone therapy, including estrogen, progesterone, testosterone and their benefits; who should use these therapies, their side effects, guidelines for their use, best recommended dosages as well as how to safely stop conventional hormone replacement therapy

- Her delicious menopause relief diet including menus, meal plans and scrumptious, high nutrient recipes that help eliminate menopause symptoms and promote radiant health and well-being

Dr. Richards has included both vegetarian emphasis, high complex carbohydrate recipes as well as high protein, meat-based recipes, depending on the type of diet that your body needs most for optimal health

- Many helpful charts including the foods that contain menopause relief nutrients, menopause food shopping list and substitution charts for high stress foods and ingredients that worsen menopause symptoms

- The most effective vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, essential fatty acids, herbs and healthy plant based sources of estrogen to relieve menopause symptoms, their best therapeutic dosages and recommendations for use; essential guidelines on how to best use supplements; and a great sample nutritional supplement formula for menopause relief

- How to support your own estrogen production and detoxification