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The Hormone Shift: Balance Your Body and Thrive Through Midlife and Menopause
The goop hormone authority offers an empowering new approach to taking charge of hormone shifts through every stage of life—especially menopause.
When hormonal highs, lows, twists, and turns feel overwhelming, Dr. Tasneem Bhatia can offer a road map—and a whole new perspective. As an MD with an East-meets-West approach to women’s health, Dr. Tasneem (known as Dr. Taz) combines the wisdom of Eastern modalities like Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine with modern medical treatments for whole body wellness.
To Dr. Taz, menopause is not an “ending”; a woman’s entire life is a spectrum of ever-shifting hormones, and menopause is just one point along that spectrum. And hormone levels are a fluid continuum that you have a lot of control through your diet, how you sleep, how you manage stress, and more.
In The Hormone Shift, Dr. Taz breaks down exactly what is happening behind the scenes in a woman’s body throughout her life and how almost every aspect of health is connected to hormones—from metabolism to mental health. She explains how to prepare for whatever is coming next, and offers a customizable Thirty-Day Hormone Reset plan that uses a combination of Eastern and Western healing modalities to keep the body in balance and deliver a targeted strategy for minimizing unwanted symptoms at every stage.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with checklists, charts, illustrations, and an appendix from the book.
When hormonal highs, lows, twists, and turns feel overwhelming, Dr. Tasneem Bhatia can offer a road map—and a whole new perspective. As an MD with an East-meets-West approach to women’s health, Dr. Tasneem (known as Dr. Taz) combines the wisdom of Eastern modalities like Ayurveda and traditional Chinese medicine with modern medical treatments for whole body wellness.
To Dr. Taz, menopause is not an “ending”; a woman’s entire life is a spectrum of ever-shifting hormones, and menopause is just one point along that spectrum. And hormone levels are a fluid continuum that you have a lot of control through your diet, how you sleep, how you manage stress, and more.
In The Hormone Shift, Dr. Taz breaks down exactly what is happening behind the scenes in a woman’s body throughout her life and how almost every aspect of health is connected to hormones—from metabolism to mental health. She explains how to prepare for whatever is coming next, and offers a customizable Thirty-Day Hormone Reset plan that uses a combination of Eastern and Western healing modalities to keep the body in balance and deliver a targeted strategy for minimizing unwanted symptoms at every stage.
* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF with checklists, charts, illustrations, and an appendix from the book.
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Published October 3, 2023
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March 28, 2024
I liked this book. Lots of good information. I did the audio version and I recommend getting the actual book.
January 28, 2025
This book was lent to me by one of MechDaddy's coworkers after I had my stroke.
I appreciate her good thoughts for me (she was truly trying to offer support and help by lending us this book) and I appreciated the positivity and mindfulness suggestions in some sections of this book, however overall, this book was not for me.
I am extremely wary of "goop" and Gwyneth Paltrow's woo-y doings, and didn't realize until I read the foreword that this book was written by "her" doctor. That made me read the book with a great deal of skepticism.
There were a few nuggets throughout of helpful ideas, good information, or positivity that were worth finding. However, the majority of the book was written to women who (a) care deeply about their looks and are aghast at 5-7 "extra" pounds and (b) have the funds to completely switch their diets and add in a load of specific supplements. Only once did the author deign to admit that one of her suggestions might not be "fiscally" reasonable. She also laid out many very specific things that you should do... while saying occasionally that every plan should be made hand in hand with your doctor, and be tailored for your own body... then she went right back to saying here are the many things every woman MUST do.
In addition, the heart of this book is the Thirty Day Hormone Reset plan featured at the back of the book, which starts off with adding green smoothies to your day, every day. This is a lovely, healthy idea for many people but not for someone on blood thinners who has to be cautious about Vitamin K intake. There were also lots of things that I know won't work for a person with PCOS and although she mentioned PCOS fairly frequently, it also felt like she swept it under the rug as a minor problem or symptom that could be changed.
By the end of the book, I knew that the methods here could not possibly work for me, personally, and I worry for women who read this and think that they MUST follow this plan.
I appreciate her good thoughts for me (she was truly trying to offer support and help by lending us this book) and I appreciated the positivity and mindfulness suggestions in some sections of this book, however overall, this book was not for me.
I am extremely wary of "goop" and Gwyneth Paltrow's woo-y doings, and didn't realize until I read the foreword that this book was written by "her" doctor. That made me read the book with a great deal of skepticism.
There were a few nuggets throughout of helpful ideas, good information, or positivity that were worth finding. However, the majority of the book was written to women who (a) care deeply about their looks and are aghast at 5-7 "extra" pounds and (b) have the funds to completely switch their diets and add in a load of specific supplements. Only once did the author deign to admit that one of her suggestions might not be "fiscally" reasonable. She also laid out many very specific things that you should do... while saying occasionally that every plan should be made hand in hand with your doctor, and be tailored for your own body... then she went right back to saying here are the many things every woman MUST do.
In addition, the heart of this book is the Thirty Day Hormone Reset plan featured at the back of the book, which starts off with adding green smoothies to your day, every day. This is a lovely, healthy idea for many people but not for someone on blood thinners who has to be cautious about Vitamin K intake. There were also lots of things that I know won't work for a person with PCOS and although she mentioned PCOS fairly frequently, it also felt like she swept it under the rug as a minor problem or symptom that could be changed.
By the end of the book, I knew that the methods here could not possibly work for me, personally, and I worry for women who read this and think that they MUST follow this plan.
September 30, 2024
Very informative
January 24, 2025
Interesting and leaned a ton, but not the best book for listening online. Too many lists, recipes and quizzes.
July 24, 2025
Good starting place if just getting into understanding your hormones and the different natural shifts in our lifecycle.
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