Screaming to Be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect… And Doctors Still Ignore
Publisher: Scribner, New York
Number of pages: 437
© 1997
Are YOU a woman between the ages of 25 and 65? Are you experiencing any of
the following?
- Loss of sex drive
- Memory problems
- Migraines
- Fibromyalgia
- Interstitial cystitis (or chronic bladder problems)
- PMS – worsening as you get older
- Food or alcohol cravings and chronic weight gain
- Difficulty sleeping, especially prior to menstruation
- Chronic fatigue or extreme tiredness
- Chronic allergies or yeast
Have you seen one health professional after another without getting the help
you need? Does it seem like no one is listening?
Have you tried many different therapies, but still don't feel like yourself? Do you know that something physical is happening to your body, even though
everyone tells you that it’s all in your head?
If any of the above applies to you, then you must read this book!
Screaming to Be Heard validates what women have suspected all
along: hormonal cycles DO play a role in many health problems that affect women
in greater numbers than men. Dr. Vliet explains the complex connections between
hormones and brain messengers that regulate memory, mood, sex drive, appetite,
pain, and other body changes. She blends various treatment options to help women find
“wholeness” in the fragmented, symptom-based approach of both alternative and
traditional medicine.
The hormone connection often goes unrecognized, even by experienced doctors,
and has not yet been seriously examined by the medical industry. Yet there ARE
hormonal differences between men and women, and these differences can tip the
balance toward health or illness, or even life or death.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Screaming to Be Heard: Listening to Women’s Voices
- Making “Holistic” Medicine Whole
- Hormones: A Guide to Body Cycle (Features an excellent section titled The
Thyroid: The Great Imitator Often Missed in Women)
- Hormones and the Brain: Identifying Unrecognized Connections
- The Big Question: Has Anybody Seen My Estrogen?
- The Overlooked Women's Hormone: Where’s My Testosterone?
- Depression, PMS or Perimenopause? Hidden Hormonal Links
- Is it Chronic Fatigue, “Yeast” or Perimenopause
- It Went Right Out of My Head: Menopause and Memory
- Migraines in Women: Hormonal Links Women Know and Doctors Ignore
- Fibromylagia, Aches and Pains: The Estrogen Factor
- Interstitial Cystitis and Other Bladder Problems: Unrecognized Hormonal
Connections
- Estrogen and Your Heart: An Update
- Breast Cancer: Politics and Hidden Risks, What You Aren’t Told!
- Hormone Replacement Therapy: Facts and Fallacies
- Still “Killing Us Softly” 1995 Update – Advertising Impacts on Women
- Patient and Physician: Imperative Agendas for the 21st Century
- What’s Wrong? Quiz Yourself Before You See the Doctor
- Fat to Fit: Making Health Lifestyle Changes for Mid-life and Beyond
- Take Charge! A Woman's Guide to Optimal Health and Well-Being