The Unofficial Guide to Coping With Menopause
by Howell, Donna; Brodman-Grimm, KarenRent Book
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Table of Contents
| The Unofficial Guide Reader's Bill of Rights | p. xiii |
| The Unofficial Guide Panel of Experts | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. xix |
| What Menopause Is | p. 1 |
| What Is Menopause, and How Do I Know I've Got It? | p. 3 |
| You May Be Menopausal If | p. 5 |
| Menopause and Perimenopause Defined | p. 5 |
| Age Ranges | p. 6 |
| Common Indications | p. 7 |
| When and How Menopause Occurs | p. 12 |
| Your Reproductive Life Cycle from Puberty Through Menopause | p. 12 |
| What's Happening to Me? | p. 14 |
| Menopause and Your Health | p. 16 |
| Osteoporosis | p. 18 |
| Heart Disease | p. 18 |
| Colo-rectal Cancer | p. 19 |
| Alzheimer's Disease | p. 19 |
| Preventing and Treating Problems | p. 19 |
| Why Menopause Happens | p. 20 |
| Just the Facts | p. 21 |
| Evolving Eve | p. 23 |
| Biological Reasons for Menopause | p. 24 |
| Theoretical Explanations for Menopause | p. 26 |
| Blessings or Curses | p. 29 |
| Myth, Religion, Superstition | p. 29 |
| Old Wives and Early Doctors | p. 31 |
| Old Wives' Tales and Treatments | p. 31 |
| Women's Issues and Early Medicine | p. 33 |
| Women's Medicine in the Early 20th Century | p. 35 |
| Menopause and the American Woman | p. 37 |
| "Changelings" in Other Cultures | p. 38 |
| Healthy Emotions, Healthy Body | p. 40 |
| Thinking About Your Future | p. 40 |
| Just the Facts | p. 42 |
| Here and Now | p. 43 |
| It Depends on Your Symptoms | p. 44 |
| Defining Normal Menopause | p. 45 |
| Health and Fitness | p. 45 |
| Defining Problem Menopause | p. 48 |
| Taking Charge | p. 49 |
| Remedy Research | p. 50 |
| Finding a Great Doctor | p. 54 |
| Avoiding Problems, Postmenopause | p. 60 |
| Treatment Trends | p. 62 |
| Just the Facts | p. 64 |
| How Your Hormones Work | p. 65 |
| Menstruation and You | p. 67 |
| A Day in the Life of Your Cycle | p. 67 |
| There Are Cycles and Then There Are Cycles | p. 68 |
| Eggs, Ovaries, and Ovulation | p. 69 |
| Roles of Estrogen and Progesterone | p. 71 |
| Stimulating the Cycle: FSH and LH | p. 74 |
| Other Hormones | p. 77 |
| Are They Just Sex Hormones? | p. 78 |
| Fertility and Pregnancy | p. 79 |
| Your Cycle During Pregnancy or on the Pill | p. 80 |
| Your Cycle Leading Up to and During Menopause | p. 81 |
| A Month in the Life of Your Menstrual Cycle | p. 83 |
| Just the Facts | p. 88 |
| What Can Go Wrong | p. 89 |
| Decline and Fall of the Hormone Empire | p. 89 |
| What Happens When Hormone Levels Change? | p. 90 |
| Perimenopause and Menopause--Just What Is Happening to Me? | p. 92 |
| Changes During Early Perimenopause | p. 93 |
| Changes During Late Perimenopause | p. 95 |
| Changes During Menopause | p. 97 |
| The Body's Quest for Balance | p. 99 |
| Early Warning: Perimenopause | p. 100 |
| From Contraception to Perimenopause? | p. 101 |
| Infertility and Perimenopause | p. 103 |
| PMS and Perimenopause | p. 105 |
| From Frustration to Flushing | p. 107 |
| What Affects Perimenopause and Menopause? | p. 109 |
| Your Background and Perimenopause | p. 110 |
| You Are What You Eat | p. 111 |
| Stress: Real Effects in Your Body | p. 112 |
| Your Symptoms Depend on You | p. 115 |
| Just the Facts | p. 118 |
| Major Menopause-Linked Health Worries | p. 119 |
| Osteoporosis | p. 120 |
| How Does Osteoporosis Happen? | p. 121 |
| Boning Up on Bone | p. 122 |
| Who's at Risk of Developing Osteoporosis? | p. 124 |
| Can I Tell Whether I Have Osteoporosis? | p. 125 |
| How Do I Prevent Osteoporosis? | p. 130 |
| Heart Disease | p. 131 |
| Cancer | p. 137 |
| Breast Cancer | p. 137 |
| Uterine Cancer | p. 140 |
| Colo-rectal Cancer | p. 141 |
| Screening for Cancer | p. 142 |
| Alzheimer's Disease | p. 143 |
| Just the Facts | p. 147 |
| Hormone Treatments | p. 149 |
| Hormone-Replacement Therapy (HRT) | p. 151 |
| A Little Hormone History | p. 152 |
| HRT Today | p. 154 |
| Variations: Just Estrogen, or Progesterone Too? | p. 157 |
| Estrogen-Only Therapy | p. 158 |
| Combined Estrogen and Progesterone Replacement | p. 161 |
| Estrogen, Progestin, and Other Replacement Therapies | p. 163 |
| Risk or Benefit? | p. 165 |
| Early Estrogen Alarm | p. 166 |
| Hormones and Cancer | p. 167 |
| Breast Cancer | p. 169 |
| Endometrial Cancer | p. 170 |
| Estrogen Against Osteoporosis? | p. 171 |
| Hormones and Heart Disease | p. 173 |
| Estrogen and Alzheimer's Disease | p. 174 |
| Much to Learn About HRT | p. 174 |
| Just the Facts | p. 175 |
| Traditional or Natural: What Flavor of HRT? | p. 177 |
| Where Do They Get Hormones From? | p. 178 |
| Cooking Up a Batch of Hormones | p. 179 |
| Pills, Patches, Creams, and Choices | p. 180 |
| How Do You Take Your Estrogen? | p. 180 |
| Providing Progesterone and Progestins | p. 191 |
| Combinations | p. 194 |
| Which Estrogen? Which Progestin? | p. 194 |
| Estrogens | p. 195 |
| Progestins | p. 197 |
| Androgens | p. 200 |
| Natural Hormone Replacement | p. 201 |
| The Hullabaloo over Natural Progesterone | p. 201 |
| Natural Hormones by Prescription or Over-the-Counter | p. 205 |
| Choices in HRT: Putting It All Together | p. 207 |
| HRT, Medications, and Existing Ailments | p. 212 |
| Estrogen and | p. 213 |
| Progestins and Progesterone | p. 215 |
| Just the Facts | p. 217 |
| New Drugs and Designer Hormones | p. 219 |
| Designer Estrogens to Prevent Osteoporosis | p. 220 |
| Raloxifene and How It Works | p. 221 |
| The Drawbacks | p. 224 |
| A Boon for Breast Cancer Prevention | p. 227 |
| Taking Tamaxifen | p. 228 |
| Tough Trade-Offs | p. 230 |
| Summing up SERMs | p. 232 |
| Antiprogestins and Postmenopausal Health | p. 235 |
| Beyond Designer Sex Hormones | p. 236 |
| Bone Benefits | p. 236 |
| Gone Fishing? | p. 238 |
| In the Pipeline | p. 238 |
| Just the Facts | p. 240 |
| Treating Menopausal Problems: Beyond Hormones | p. 241 |
| Nutrition News | p. 243 |
| Nutrition Basics | p. 245 |
| RDAs and RDIs | p. 245 |
| Vital Vitamins | p. 253 |
| Meaningful Minerals | p. 257 |
| Treat Yourself | p. 258 |
| Heads, Hearts, and Hot Flashes | p. 259 |
| The Value of Vitamin A | p. 262 |
| The Beneficial Bs | p. 263 |
| Skeletal Support | p. 263 |
| Iron Woman | p. 266 |
| Amino Acids: Mood Foods and More | p. 267 |
| EFAs: Fats You Have to Have | p. 269 |
| Considering Cravings | p. 271 |
| Chocoholics, Unite! | p. 272 |
| Protein Preferences | p. 274 |
| The Vegetarian View | p. 275 |
| Ensuring Adequate Nutrition | p. 275 |
| The Daily Dilemma | p. 276 |
| Are We Getting Enough? | p. 276 |
| Just the Facts | p. 277 |
| Treating Menopause with Lifestyle | p. 279 |
| The Active, Low-Stress Lifestyle | p. 280 |
| Stress and Premature Menopause | p. 281 |
| The Restorative Powers of Stress Reduction | p. 282 |
| De-Stressing Your Life | p. 284 |
| Eliminate the Negative | p. 285 |
| To Sleep, Perchance to Dream | p. 287 |
| Take Care of Yourself | p. 289 |
| Exercise and Meditation | p. 290 |
| Effects on Your Hormones | p. 292 |
| The Benefits of Exercise | p. 293 |
| The Importance of Weight-Bearing Exercise | p. 294 |
| Antistress Offerings from the East | p. 296 |
| Yoga for Menopause | p. 296 |
| Tai Chi: Slow Moves for Great Benefits | p. 298 |
| Qi Gong | p. 298 |
| Breath Work | p. 300 |
| The Mind-Body Connection | p. 301 |
| Spiritually Speaking | p. 302 |
| Charting the Mind-Body Response | p. 303 |
| Just the Facts | p. 304 |
| Nonhormone Treatment from Conventional Medicine | p. 305 |
| Hot Flashes and Headaches | p. 306 |
| Blood-Pressure Medications | p. 308 |
| Other Hot-Flash Treatments | p. 308 |
| Over-the-Counter Options | p. 309 |
| Musings on Migraines | p. 310 |
| Medicinally Induced Hot Flashes | p. 311 |
| Vaginal Dryness | p. 312 |
| Irregular Bleeding and Related Problems | p. 315 |
| Cancer as a Cause of Abnormal Bleeding | p. 317 |
| Diagnosis of Structural Abnormalities | p. 318 |
| Treatment of Abnormal Bleeding with Medications | p. 321 |
| Treatment of Abnormal Bleeding with Surgery | p. 323 |
| Surgical Interventions for Hormone Problems | p. 329 |
| Decisions, Decisions: Handling Menopause Your Way | p. 330 |
| Just the Facts | p. 331 |
| Alternatives and Environmental Issues | p. 333 |
| Herbs and Alternative Treatments | p. 335 |
| Effective Herbalism? | p. 336 |
| How Herbs Help Menopause | p. 338 |
| A Short History of Herbs | p. 340 |
| Hormonal Effects from Herbs | p. 341 |
| Traditional Chinese Medicine and Menopause | p. 344 |
| TCM Herbal Gynecology | p. 346 |
| Avoiding Unwanted Effects | p. 349 |
| Ginsengs | p. 350 |
| Ayurveda's Indian Prescription | p. 353 |
| Vata | p. 353 |
| Pitta | p. 354 |
| Kapha | p. 354 |
| Ayurvedic Balancing | p. 355 |
| Other Herbal Traditions | p. 357 |
| Beyond the Herbal Horizons | p. 359 |
| Homeopathy for Menopause | p. 359 |
| Acupuncture, Massage, and Energy Work | p. 362 |
| Just the Facts | p. 364 |
| Estrogens from Everywhere | p. 365 |
| Phytohormones: You Are What You Eat | p. 366 |
| A Phytoestrogen Primer | p. 368 |
| How Phytoestrogens Work | p. 369 |
| Soy for Your Hormones | p. 369 |
| Beyond Soy: Other Phytoestrogen Foods | p. 372 |
| Hormones in the Meat You Eat | p. 373 |
| Unwanted Estrogen in the Environment | p. 375 |
| Pollutants and Pesticides | p. 376 |
| Environmentally Available Estrogens | p. 378 |
| The Great Unknown | p. 379 |
| Keeping Healthy | p. 380 |
| Just the Facts | p. 383 |
| Glossary | p. 385 |
| Resource Directory | p. 395 |
| Recommended Reading List | p. 403 |
| Index | p. 407 |
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