Happy Hormones: The Natural Treatment Programs for Weight Loss, PMS, Menopause, Fatigue, Irritability, Osteoporosis, Stress, Anxiety, Thyroid Imbalances and More

by Kristy Vermeulen

REGAIN THE HEALTHY LIFE YOU DESERVE

Millions of women struggle every day with problems like low energy, unexplained weight gain, and dull moods, yet too often diet, exercise, and pharmaceutical drugs are thought to be the only available options. Hormones—the chemical messengers of the body—influence every single process in our they govern our growth, weight, and energy, as well as fight stress and anxiety, relieve depression, and maintain personal drive.

Based on Dr. Kristy Vermeulen’s popular six-week online course, Happy Hormones explains how hormones affect your day-to-day routine and provides expert guidance to help you identify your hormonal imbalances and treat them in a natural, healthy way.

Happy Hormones also
• Simple and effective self-assessments to help you diagnose your hormonal imbalances
• Six-step hormonal balancing programs for adrenal, thyroid, progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone imbalances
• Tools to help you read your own hormonal messages so you can stay in tune with your body and improve your overall well-being
• FAQs of bioidentical and synthetic hormones, along with guidelines to help you safely and effectively apply them in your treatment program
• Nutrition program with over 45 delicious, healthy, and hormone-friendly recipes
• Expert guidance to feeling and looking young, healthy, and fabulous

Happy Hormones is a comprehensive, practical guide for any woman interested in balancing their hormones. It will help you get back to your energetic, vibrant, and healthy self. Representing an important application of a fast-growing branch of health science, Happy Hormones will allow you to shed unwanted weight and regain your energy for a healthy, fabulous life.

Genres: Health, Nonfiction, Self Help

320 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

Reviews

[Pam · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book started out informational, but after getting into it, the book leads you to what should be considered a self-diagnosis of hormonal imbalances, and treatment options. Self- diagnosing and self-treatment of some of the diagnoses listed in the book can be harmful if other health issues are not considered. This book sounds like a self-help, but strays far from it considering you're diagnosing yourself. If you feel any of the symptoms of any of the listed imbalances, you should go to your primary care doctor to get it diagnosed, and to get an appropriate treatment plan. Many doctors will give you the option of medicating, or giving you natural options. I honestly feel that this book, even though the intentions of the author seem to be wanting to help people, may hurt people, in the wrong hands, or uneducated enough, to do more harm to themselves than good. This book should be more of a resource than a guide.

[Ashlyn Cox · Rating 2 out of 5]

There is some good info, especially about how hormones work, and maybe a good starting place for checklist/talking to your doctor. But, it is highly repetitive and most of the book can be summed up by "eat more protein, less sugar/caffeine, exercise, reduce stress, and sleep better."

[Dina_s · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have thoughts about this book. Overall I would say about 30% of the information given is extremely useful - that is the part that explains hormonal function and how it affects our metabolism and menstrual cycle.
Beyond that I would offer the following caveats:
* It's highly repetitive - this book could have benefited from some judicious editing. The list of supplements/bioidentical whatchamacallits etc should have just been listed in each chapter and then placed in a diagram as an appendix
* There is much bashing of wheat and gluten
* There is the prerequisite vilification of dairy and meat. The author then goes on to contradict herself by listing dairy as a source of food high in calcium. Meat and offal as good sources of protein and iron etc. Confused much?
* The promotion of multivitamins and supplements (other than the herbs/homeopathy)
* There is EWG level of "bad chemicals" scaremongering - rather they are referred to a number of times, so it's obvious which camp the doc is in.
Glean from this book what you can - it gave me some insight and food for thought, but bear in mind it's biased towards "clean eating, clean products" blurbology.

[Leigh · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this. Minimal quackery, with clear step by step recommendations that start with the fundamentals (diet, movement, sleep) and then adds in safe, easy to find supplements, with appropriate cautions. Much better than a lot of stuff that's out there, though I'm a bit surprised at the lack of info on acne and similar skin conditions; she says that high testosterone/androgen problems only happen to people with PCOS, and therefore she doesn't include any info on it and recommends going to a medical professional. But what is the explanation for hormonal acne, then, for people who don't have PCOS? I'm trying to avoid androgen-suppressors (taking Spiro led to major side effects), but there's no information in this book about alternatives for people that are having these symptoms. The good thing is that many of the recommendations that are here are applicable to any kind of hormone imbalance, so this book was helpful even though it didn't address my specific question.

[Sarah · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book! Lots of information on food/vitamins/herbs that can naturally heal your body and get your hormones back on track. The author also talks about supplements your Dr can prescribe, how to choose a Dr, the importance of blood tests, etc. I did not think she was encouraging the reader to self-diagnose, like a previous reviewer suggested, just that she was encouraging the reader to take charge of their own health, and not to let a Dr ignore them.
I am probably going to keep rereading this until I have to return it to the library.

[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

I won this book as a Goodreads Giveaway.

There is a a lot of good information in this book, for those of us interested in trying to navigate our way through hormonal changes. I can see myself referring back to it in search of information to assist with all the different issues that menopause puts us through. I would suggest using other sources of information along with this book, as there is so much to learn about this process.

[Veronica · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed this book! It clearly explained all about our hormones and then gave some solutions to help balance them out. Would definitely recommend!

[Bianca]

I won this book on Goodreads.