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

Expanded and updated, an in-depth guide to beating common women's health problems Unbalanced hormones play havoc with women’s lives and cause problems ranging from PMS and endometriosis to fibroids, breast cancer, and menopausal problems. This guide 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. Packed with practical advice, this book is backed by the latest scientific research that 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.