Mairin Schuman’s Reviews > From PMS to Menopause: Female Hormones in Context > Status Update

“Albumin has been used therapeutically in preeclampsia, to restore blood volume. Synthetic polymers with similar osmotic properties are sometimes used in shock, and might also be useful in eclampsia, but simply eating extra protein quickly restores blood albumin.”

“If something harms your vitality, and is just as toxic to your immune system, your liver, and your brain, as it is to cancer cells, the medical situation seems analogous to that of the army that destroys a town to save it.”

This book is a hard slog. So technical. So detailed. I feel like I’m back in nursing school (minus the content 😆). Send help. I might not make it another half