Managing Menopause Naturally
Before, During and Forever
by Emily A. Kane, N.D., L.Ac.
Open Your Mind to the Possibility of Natural Self-Care
Work with whatever Nature offers - fresh air, pure water, organic foods, and your own complex physical and emotional makeup -to achieve optimum health and well-being during this stage of life.
In this informative new book, Managing Menopause Naturally, Dr. Emily Kane sets out to banish the current myths about menopause, making the important point that menopause is not a disease that requires medical intervention. It is instead, she says, a natural transition to be approached as a new type of freedom. Dr. Kane believes that menopause is a gift that allows many of us to live many more years - without periods or the specter of unwanted pregnancies, or, for some, the roller coaster of premenstrual moodiness. This book is her roadmap to help women navigate into, through, and out of the other side of menopause, and do so in radiant health.
Part One takes up the symptoms of hormonal change in the intial perimenopause period, which can include mood swings, hot flashes, night sweats, bone and hair loss, and foggy thinking, and provides practial, natural, non-pharmaceutical solutions.
Part Two recommends "incredibly useful" natural solutions, including bio-identical hormones, ways to protect the liver, and many different natural supplements.
Part Three discusses the role that the ovaries and the adrenal and thyroid glands play in the female body before, during, and after menopause. The final section is an overview of how to stay healthy for a long time, and gives specifics on maintaining a functional immune system and reducing the risks of heart disease and cancer.
Throughout, Dr. Kane, dismantles the myths created around menopause - how it causes diseases and turns women into raging terrors; how, because women live longer now their estrogen must be replaced; and how all menopausal women should be treated with standard hormones. She says these and other related myths are all inspired by doctors and pharmaceutical companies, and tells us how it is possible instead to manage this transitional phase naturally and comfortably.The back of this book has resources and references for follow-up and further information.
Emily A. Kane, N.D., L.Ac., the daughter of American diplomats, spent her early years in the Middle East and graduated from the Madeira School in the Washington, D.C., area, and Harvard University. She gave up her first, decade-long career in the performing arts to become a scientist, and received her naturopathic degree (N.D.), as well as her master's level training in acupuncture and Eastern medicine (L.Ac.), at Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington. Dr. Kane has a family practice in Juneau, Alaska, where she lives with her husband and daughter. She writes regularly for Let's Live magazine, organizes health retreats, and can be contacted through her website.
Paperback
248 pages |
