Educate and illuminate: understanding the new hormonal landscape. Introduction: why hormones matter ; Getting started : fill out the questionnaires ; Hormonal primer : everything you need to know about hormones ; Perimenopause : your own personal global warming crisis, hypervigilance, and tighter jeans -- Assess, diagnose, treat: from imbalance to ideal hormonal specimen. High and/or low cortisol : stress case? Is life without caffeine not worth living? ; Low-progesterone blues and progesterone resistance : heavy periods, PMS, insomnia, and infertility? ; Excess estrogen: depressed and chunky? ; Low estrogen: are you dry and cranky? ; Excess androgens : do you have pimples, ovarian cysts, and rogue hairs? ; Low thyroid: weight gain, fatigue, and mood problems? ; Common combinations of hormonal imbalances ; Hormonal nirvana: staying on course -- Appendix. A. Gottfried Protocol, by hormone imbalance ; B. Glossary of terms ; C. Hormones and their functions ; D. How to find and work collaboratively with practitioners for your hormone cure ; E. Recommended labs for home testing ; F. The Gottfried food plan ; G. Normal and optimal ranges of hormone levels and related laboratory tests ; H. Fertility, conception, pregnancy, and lactation protocols -- Paperback Q&A

A Harvard physician's method to improve physical and mental health by optimizing the hormones in the 30s, 40s, and beyond