The Thyroid Sourcebook: Second Edition
By M. Sara Rosenthal, Lowell House -- 1996

Description

M. Sara Rosenthal's book offers a good overview of thyroid disease, and is an excellent source of easy-to- understand information on most aspects of thyroid disease. This second edition has the latest information on smoking and thyroid eye disease; osteoporosis and thyroid hormone; post-partum thyroid disease; nutrition and diet; the continuing problem of iodine deficiency around the world; as well as an expanded discussion of symptoms in sections she calls "Hyperalphabet Soup" and "Hypoalphabet Soup."

M. Sara Rosenthal is a professional health writer an dthe author of several books, including The Gynecological Sourceobook, The Breast Sourcebooks, and The Fertility Sourcebook. She was diagnosed and treated for thyroid cancer at the age of twenty and has written and produced a cable documentary on thyroid disease.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Meet Your Thyroid Gland
Chapter 2: Over and Under: Hyperthyroidism and Hypothyroidism
Chapter 3: Autoimmune Disorders
Chapter 4: Thyroiditis: Inflammation of the Thyroid Gland
Chapter 5: Please Explain Thyroid Nodules
Chapter 6: When They Tell You it's Cancer
Chapter 7: Women and Thyroids
Chapter 8: Thyroid Disorders and Men
Chapter 9: When It's Your Child
Chapter 10: A Layperson's Guide to Doctors
Chapter 11: A Layperson's Guide to Radioactive Iodine
Chapter 12: Thyroid Medication
Chapter 13: I'm Cured--Now What?
Appendix: Where to Go for More Information

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Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness
By Broda O. Barnes, M.D. and Lawrence Galton, Harper & Row -- 1976

Description (from jacket copy)

Of all the problems that can affect physical or mental health, none is more common than thyroid gland disturbance. None is more readily and inexpensively corrected. And none is more often untreated, and even unsuspected.

Hypothyroidism--low thyroid function--is one of the gland disturbances that many people suffer from without even realizing it. It can be the cause of low energy or constant fatigue that is one of the most common complaints brought to doctors. It may be responsible for chronic headaches, repeated infections, unyielding skin problems, or circulatory difficulties. Even more frightening, it can be a major factor in heart disease, lung cancer, and emphysema. And it is responsible for many emotional and mental disturbances. Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness explains low thyroid function in easy, understandable language. It tells how it may be affecting your health and your life.

Dr. Broda Barnes and Lawrence Galton tell what the thyroid gland is, how it works, the problems its dysfunction can induce. They detail case histories of patients, often thought hopeless, whose problems were discovered to be related to hypothyroidism and were cured by Dr. Barnes's simple effective techniques. And they discuss whether you too may be hypothyroid, affected by a condition even a physician may not recognize.

Included is a simple test you can make at home to discover if hypothyroidism may be the real, previously unsuspected cause of your ill health.

If you know you are hypothyroid, Hypothyroidism: The Unsuspected Illness will answer your questions about your condition. If you suspect you may be, if you are unsure what may be causing those chronic headaches, infections, fatigue and low energy, it may help you find the answer.

The late Dr. Broda Barnes practiced medicine for more than thirty-five years. His experience with patients suffering from undiscovered cases of hypothyroidism led him to write this book. The foundation established in his name carries on his work with hypothyroidism.

Table of Contents

1. The Many Faces of Thyroid Deficiency
2. The Vital--and Errant--Gland
3. The Flaw in Diagnosis...and Overcoming It
4. The Thyroid and Fatigue
5. Migraine and Other Headaches
6. The Thyroid in Emotional and Behavioral Problems
7. Infectious Diseases: Why, For Some, So Many
8. The Thyroid and the Skin
9. Menstrual Disorders, Fertility Problems and Avoiding Needless Surgery
10. The Hypertension Association
11. The Thyroid and Heart Attacks
12. Arthritis
13. The Thyroid, Diabetes, and Hypoglycemia
14. The Thyroid, Lung Cancer, and Emphysema
15. The Thyroid and Obesity: The Real--and Surprising--Connections
16. The Role of the Thyroid in Aging
17. A Word About Thyroid Treatment

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Screaming to be Heard: Hormonal Connections Women Suspect...and Doctors Ignore
By Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D.,
M. Evans and Company, Inc. -- 1995

Description (from book jacket)

Are YOU a woman between the ages of 25-65?

Are you suffering from any of these health problems?

Are you making the rounds of doctors and other health professionals, feeling no one is listening?

Have you tried many different therapies and still don't feel like YOURSELF?

Do you KNOW there's something physically happening to your body, and everyone keeps telling you it's all in your head; there's nothing wrong, see a psychiatrist?

If any of these apply to you, then you must read this book!

Screaming to be Heard is a rallying cry to every woman whose body knowledge has been dismissed as "hypochondriacal," "neurotic," or "hysterical." Within its 20 chapters, Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., discusses and illuminates dozens of problems peculiar to women: physical, physical/emotional, physical/emotional/hormonal.

A long-time women's health advocate, Dr. Vliet describes the often unrecognized hormonal changes that contribute to a wide range of health problems that plague women in far greater numbers than men. These problems, women know, have physical connections, which doctors too often ignore; questions that the medical industry has failed to research and take seriously. Among them are issues some feminists would rather ignore (there are hormonal differences between men and women, like it or not). Issues that affect your life and health! For your own well-being, and that of your mothers, daughters, sisters, and friends...YOU CANNOT AFFORD TO IGNORE THIS CUTTING EDGE INFORMATION.

Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., is a leading specialist in preventive and behavioral medicine and a long-standing advocate for women's health. Dr. Vliet is passionate about women's health and spends more than 100 days a year doing educational programs for women, physicians and top health professionals. Dr. Vliet is founder and Medical Director of HER Place: The Women's Center for Health Enhancement and Renewal, Inc., a comprehensive wellness-oriented program at All Saints Health System in Fort Worth, Texas and an evaluation-retreat center in Tucson, Arizona. She is currently on the clinical faculty in the Department of Family Medicine at both the University of Arizona College of Medicine and the University of North Texas Health Sciences Center. Dr. Vliet has been described as "inspiring, provocative, dedicated, and caring" in her work with women and their desire to achieve optimal well-being.

Table of Contents

1. Screaming to Be Heard: Listening to Women's Voices
2. Making "Holistic" Medicine Whole
3. Hormones: A Guide to Body Cycle
(Features an excellent section titled "The Thyroid: The Great Imitator Often Missed in Women")
4. Hormones and the Brain: Identifying Unrecognized Connections
5. The Big Question: Has Anybody Seen My Estrogen?
6. The Overlooked Women's Hormone: Where's My Testosterone?
7. Depression, PMS or Perimenopause? Hidden Hormonal Links
8. Is it Chronic Fatigue, "Yeast" or Perimenopause
9. It Went Right Out of My Head: Menopause and Memory
10. Migraines in Women: Hormonal Links Women Know and Doctors Ignore
11. Fibromylagia, Aches and Pains: The Estrogen Factor
12. Interstitial Cystitis and Other Bladder Problems: Unrecognized Hormonal Connections
13. Estrogen and Your Heart: An Update
14. Breast Cancer: Politics and Hidden Risks, What You Aren't Told!
15. Hormone Replacement Therapy: Facts and Fallacies
16. Still "Killing Us Softly" 1995 Update -- Advertising Impacts on Women
17. Patient and Physician: Imperative Agendas for the 21st Century
18. What's Wrong? Quiz Yourself Before You See the Doctor
19. Fat to Fit: Making Health Lifestyle Changes for Mid-life and Beyond
20. Take Charge! A Woman's Guide to Optimal Health and Well-Being

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Listening to Your Hormones (Hardcover Edition)
Listening to Your Hormones (Paperback Edition)
By Gillian Ford, Prima Publishing -- 1996

Description

It's Not All in Your Head!!

For some women, natural hormonal fluctuations create little stress or discomfort, while for others, hormonal changes can cause severe, chronic suffering. The simple truth is that nearly all women will experience a hormone-related illness at some point in their lives.

In this practical, solution-filled resource, women's health educator Gillian Ford empowers women by giving them the facts. Listening to Your Hormones illustrates the pervasive role hormones play in women's lives and reveals how to form a successful partnership with a doctor to find treatments that work.

How Hormones Affect Your Health and Well-Being

Do you experience PMS, irregular periods, or mood swings? Are you on The Pill? Have you had postpartum depression or a hysterectomy? Do you sometimes feel unaccountably 'out of whack' -- depressed, angry, exhausted? have you had difficulty finding a doctor able to make sense of your symptoms? Hormonal imbalances may be the culprit--and the last possibility your doctor considers.

Millions of women suffer with symptoms that are triggered by hormones. Some women become moody and irritable; some have panic attacks; others experience migraines, epilepsy, allergies, skin problems, low thyroid activity, ovarian cysts or fibroids. For those with a genetic tendency toward hormonal problems, every hormonal event in life - - menstruation, pregnancy, menopause -- can wreak havoc. Yet, because women seldom understand the relationship between hormones and other systems in the body, they seek help for outward symptoms instead of the underlying causes. Medical research also tends to underrate the tremendous impact hormones have on the way women feel, and many doctors fail to suspect a hormonal explanation and proceed to treat isolated symptoms--with poor results.

Listening to Your Hormones ends the confusion, revealing the underlying hormonal basis for a broad range of symptoms a woman may experience at various stages of her life. Gillian Ford examines real case histories of women of diverse ages and backgrounds. In simple terms, she outlines how hormones, part of the most delicately balanced and misunderstood system in the body, affect our well-being, and discusses the most common hormonal problems. Ford examines the full range of long- and short-term hormone replacement therapies available today, as well as a host of natural alternatives. At last, here is genuine relief from dozens of hormone-related conditions.

Gillian Ford is the health education coordinator for HER Place, Center for Women's Health, All Saints Health System, Fort Worth, Texas.

Table of Contents

SECTION ONE: WHAT GOES WRONG?
1. What's Wrong with My Hormones
2. Why is it So Hard to Find Help?
3. How Your Hormones Work: The Endocrine System
4. The Menstrual Cycle: How Your Hormones Work

SECTION TWO: HORMONAL PROBLEMS
5. Premenstrual Syndrome
6. The Birth Control Pill
7. Postpartum Depression
8. The Thyroid Link
9. Thyroid and Depression
10. Perimenopause and Menopause
11. Estrogen and Depression
12. Tubal Sterilization, Hysterectomy and Oophorectomies
13. Breast Cancer
14. Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Multiple Chemical Sensitivities
15. Androgens in Men and Women
16. Natural Progesterone and the Work of Dr. John Lee
17. The Optimum Diet for Hormonal Problems

Appendix 1: Treating Physicians
Appendix 2: Sources for Natural Hormones and Saliva Testing
Appendix 3: Autoimmune Links with the Endocrine System

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Solved: The Riddle of Illness (Second Edition)
By Stephen E. Langer, M.D. & James F. Scheer, Keats Publishing -- 1994

Description

Langer and Scheer intended their book to carry forward the tradition of Broda Barnes. The book discusses the "secrets of abundant health -- physically, emotionally and mentally."

Dr. Langer has been president of the American Nutritional Medical Association since 1982 and has a private practice in Berkeley, California. Over the last twenty years, Dr. Langer has had his own radio and television talk shows. James Scheer has authored and co-authored 15 published books, many on nutrition and health. More than 1,000 of his nutrition/health articles have appeared in leading magazines around the world.

Table of Contents

1. "Nothing Organically Wrong"
2. Why So Much Hidden Hypothyroidism
3. Care and Feeding of the Thyroid
4. What's Sabotaging Your Thyroid?
5. Body Heat
6. Thyroid and Sex -- For Women
7. Thyroid and Sex--For Men
8. Better Skin, Better Living
9. Mind and Emotions: The Thyroid Connection
10. A New Look at Depression
11. Medical Look-alikes: Hypoglycemia and Hypothyroidism
12. Diabetes: A Preventable Disease
13. Overweight: How to be a Good Loser!
14. How to Prevent a Heart Attack--Your Own!
15. Be Kind to Your Arteries
16. Dramatic Treatment for Circulatory Problems
17. Guard Yourself Against Cancer
18. Thyroiditis: A Growing Menace
19. Evening Primrose Oil: Wonder-Worker
20. Alzheimer's Disease: Senility or Something Else?
21. Live Longer, Healthier and Younger
22. For Doctors Only

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Prescription for Nutritional Healing -- 2nd Edition
By James F. Balch and Phyllis A. Balch, Avery Pub Group, October 1996

Description

Written by a husband-and-wife team of medical doctor and certified nutritionist, this groundbreaking resource--totally updated with all new material--offers an encyclopedic reference and provides natural healing programs for more than 250 ailments and disorders. New to this edition is information on herbal and other supplemental treatments, including the use of melatonin, yohimbe, chromium picolinate, cat's claw, maitake mushrooms, saw palmetto, kava kava, and kombucha. Also this second edition has been expanded to reflect the latest research on drug-free remedies in the field of nutrition: as such it provides an excellent assessment and review of herbal tinctures and diets. From high blood pressure remedies to handling infections, this is packed with practical advice. The book is divided into three parts. Part One explains and lists the various types of nutrients, food supplements and herbs found in health food stores and drugstores. Part Two describes common disorders and names the supplements that can be used to combat the conditions. Part Three is a guide to traditional remedies and therapies that can be used in conjunctiion with a nutritional program. Throughout there are helpful self-diagnostic tests and inserts that offer in-depth coverage on a variety of topics.

Table of Contents Summary

Part One -- Understanding the Elements of Health
Introduction
Nutrition, Diet and Wellness
Vitamins
Minerals
Water
Amino Acids
Antioxidants
Enzymes
Natural Food Supplements
Herbs

Part Two -- The Disorders
 (A listing of more than 200 disorders, from Abscess to Yeast Infection, and including Hyperthyroidism, Hypothyroidism,)

Part Three -- Remedies and Therapies
 Ascorbic Acid Flush
Blood Purification
Chelation Therapy
Colon Cleansing
Color Therapy
DHEA Therapy
Enemas
Exercise
Fasting
Glandular Therapy
Growth Hormone Therapy
Hair Analysis
Hydrotherapy
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy
Juicing
Making Kombucha Tea
Light Therapy
Music and Sound Therapy
Pain Control -- (Acupuncture, Acupressure, Chiropractic, Guided Imagery, Heat and Cold Therapy, Herbs, Hypnotherapy, Massage, Medication, Meditation, Relaxtion, TENS Unit Therapy)
Using a Poultice
Sitz Bath
Steam Inhalation
Preparing and Recovering from Surgery
Therapeutic Liquids

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Taking Charge of Your Fertility, The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control and Pregnancy Achievement by Toni Weschler, MPH, Harper Perennial -- 1995

Description

A fully illustrated book filled with helpful examples and charts, Taking Charge of Your Fertility provides a complete and fascinating window into the reproductive system. The book thoroughly explains the empowering Fertility Awareness Method, which in only a couple of minutes a day allows you to: This groundbreaking work is the next step in the women's health revolution, providing all the information women need to monitor their menstrual cycles -- whether to achieve pregnancy, avoid pregnancy, or just get better control of their health and lives.

The author Toni Wechsler is a nationally respected women's health educator and speaker with a master's degree in public health.

Table of Contents

Part One / Breaking Fertile Ground: Toward a New Way of Thinking
1. Fertility Awareness: What You Should Know and Why You Probably Don't
2. Taking Control of Your Reproductive Health

Part Two / Rediscovering Your Cycle and Your Body
3. There's More to Your Reproductive Anatomy Than Your Vagina
4. Finally Making Sense of Your Menstrual Cycle
5. The Three Primary Fertility Signs
6. How to Observe and Chart Your Fertility Signs
7. Why Women Don't Always Ovulate or Menstruate

Part Three / Natural Birth Control
8. Fertility Awareness in the Age of AIDS
9. Natural Birth Control Without Chemicals or Devices
10. Shortcuts: Minimum Charting with Maximum Reliability

Part Four / Pregnancy Achievement
11. Maximizing Your Chances of Getting Pregnant
12. Practical Tips Beyond Fertility Awareness
13. Lovemaking Versus Babymaking
14. What Next? Test and Treatments that May Be Necessary to Achieve Pregnancy

Part Five / Beyond Fertility: Practical Benefits of Charting Your Cycle
15. Maintaining Your Gynecological Health
16. Appreciating Your Sexuality and Nurturing Your Relationship
17. Choosing the Sex of Your Baby
18. Premenstrual Syndrome: It's Not All in My Head?
19. Demystifying Menopause
20. Enriching Your Self-Esteem Through Knowledge About Your Body

Appendices

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The Thyroid Book: What Goes Wrong and How to Treat It
By Martin I. Surks, M.D., Consumer Reports Books -- 1993

Description

(Note: According to Amazon.com, this book is not currently available. Though not officially "out of print," this book is "out of stock indefinitely" at the publisher. If you would like to purchase this item, Amazon recommends that you occasionally check their page on this book to see if it's been reprinted. )

In this book, Martin I. Surks, M.D., discusses thyroid hormones and their effects, how your doctor conducts a thyroid examination, and the appropriate diagnostic tests that may be ordered for your condition. He details the diagnosis and treatment of various overactive thyroid conditions, such as Graves' disease and thyroid nodules, and underactive thyroid conditions, such as Hashimoto's thyroiditis. The use of thyroid aspiration biopsy to distinguish thyroid cancer from goiters and nodules is described. There are chapters on thyroid disease in pregnant women, children, and older people, and on the relationship of the thyroid to obesity.

A list of directories of physicians and organizations that specialize in dealing with thyroid problems is included.

If you--or someone you care about--have a thyroid problem, this book presents the facts you need, helps calm your fears, and shows you how to work with your doctor to manage the condition.

Martin I. Surks, M.D., a practicing physician, is the Director of the Division of Endocrinology at Montefiore Hospital in New York City.

Table of Contents

1. The Thyroid Gland: An Overview
2. The Thyroid Hormones
3. The Effects of Thyroid Hormones
4. The Doctor's Examination
5. Diagnostic Tests
6. The Overactive Thyroid: Hyperthyroidism
7. Graves' Disease
8. Treatment of Graves' Hyperthyroidism
9. Treatment of Graves' Orbitopathy
10. Hyperthyroidism Due to Nodules
11. The Underactive Thyroid: Hypothyroidism
12. Causes of Hypothyroidism
13. Treating Hypothyroidism
14. Thyroditis
15. Goiter
16. Thyroid Nodules
17. Thyroid Cancer
18. Thyroid Disease and Pregnancy
19. Thyroid Disease in Children
20. Thyroid Disease in Older People
21. The Thyroid and Obesity
Appendix: Directories of Physicians, Professional Societies and Lay Organizations

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