The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Bioidentical Hormones - Softcover

Pollycove, Ricki, M.D.; Faass, Nancy

 
9781592579761: The Pocket Idiot's Guide to Bioidentical Hormones

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A scientific solution to women's health issues and concerns.

The Pocket Idiot's Guide(tm) to Bioidentical Hormones provides essential information on the molecules that are animal derived and identical to those found in the human body, which offer women another way to meet the needs of aging. This book presents a wide range of options for supplementing hormones, covering such topics as:

?What bioidentical hormones are (and are not) and how they work

?The safety issue-which bioidenticals work, which don't really help much, and which may be harmful

?Bioidentical hormones and their effect on the heart, bones, and brain

?Creating an individualized health plan-which hormones, in what combi­nation, how much, and how often



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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Ricki Pollycove, M.D., is an experienced OB-GYN with twenty-five years of clinical practice.


Ricki Pollycove, M.D., MS, is a board-certified OB/GYN, practicing gynecology and specializing in menopause, women's wellness, breast health, disease prevention, infertility, and integrative medicine for women. She is co- author, with Rick and Jan Hanson, of the integrative health book, Mother Nature: A Mother's Guide to Health in Body, Mind and Intimate Relationships. She has served as chief of gynecology at California Pacific Medical Center hospital and is a clinical faculty member of UCSF School of Medicine, teaches at the California Institute of Integral Studies, and has taught at the University of Arizona School of Medicine.

Nancy Faass, MSW, MPH, is coauthor of 10 books on health and medicine. She holds a public health degree from UC Berkeley and is founder and director of The Writers' Group, a co-op that provides writing and project development for authors. Ms. Faass also serves as a health coach and is founder of MyPrivateHealthCoach.com.

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