The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol

Sara Gottfried

Mar 2013 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

The New York Times bestselling guide to hormone balance that helps women of all ages achieve increased energy, resilience, vitality, and sensuality through science-based natural therapies.

All too often women are told that feeling moody, asexual, tapped out, dried up, stressed out, and sleep deprived is just a part of being female. Or they’re led to believe that the answer can be found only at the bottom of a bottle of prescription pills. Dr. Sara Gottfried, a Harvard-educated physician and nationally recognized, board-certified gynecologist, refuses to accept that being a woman means feeling overwhelmed or that popping pills is the new normal. In The Hormone Cure, she shares the unique hormone-balancing program that she has used to help thousands of women reclaim wellness, verve, and optimal health.

Combining natural therapies with rigorous scientific testing and using an informative questionnaire to identify the common causes of hormonal imbalance, Dr. Gottfried provides an individualized plan in nonjudgmental and thoughtful language. Based on ten years’ study of cutting-edge medical research as a specialist in functional and integrative therapies, Dr. Gottfried’s three-tiered treatment strategy includes:

•Supplements and targeted lifestyle changes that address underlying deficiencies

•Herbal therapies that restore balance and optimize your body’s natural function

•Bioidentical hormones—most available without a prescription

The Hormone Cure is a groundbreaking book that demonstrates how balancing your hormones can cure underlying health issues and result in restored sleep, greater energy, improved mood, easy weight loss, increased productivity, and many more benefits. Dr. Sara Gottfried’s The Hormone Cure will transform your life.

Ratings and reviews

I haven't read this book in full, but I'd like to point out something. I'm quoting the description on Google Books "ALL TOO OFTEN WOMEN ARE TOLD that feeling moody, *asexual*, tapped out, dried up, stressed out and sleep deprived is just a part of being female." From what I have read, this book tries to provide answers to these "problems". My question is: Why is asexuality lumped into the mix??? No idea what I'm talking about? Well, asexuality is simply the absence or lack of sexual desire. It is a legitimate sexual orientation like heterosexuality, homosexuality etc... What this seems to imply is that asexuality is a problem and not a legitimate orientation. You don't just "feel asexual". Although there is a spectrum of asexuality, it's not the same as simply not being turned on anymore. You can't just take a pill or read a book and it goes away, asexuality is a sexuality. The most concerning thing is that this is one of the first books that comes up when you search "asexuality"on Google Books. So anyone who tries to do research on this topic might be led to feel that asexuality is a "condition" rather than a sexual orientation that should be respected. This needs to stop. The notion that asexuality is some curable disease needs to stop. Ace phobia needs to stop. Gross underrepresentation needs to stop.

Like other readers said, it seems like a book full of informatials with no plan or new information.

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About the author

Sara Gottfried, M.D., is a Harvard-educated physician and board-certified gynecologist who treats the root cause of problems, not just symptoms. A nationally-recognized yoga teacher, Gottfried teaches women how to balance their hormones naturally. She has been featured in Yoga Journal, Glamour, and Cosmopolitan magazines and in the award-winning film, YogaWoman.