The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol

I will post here what I wrote her directly on her web site: I learned so much from your book, and sure enough, I had a low thyroid which was causing my rapid unexplained weight gain. Thanks to you, I realized the beginning was when I moved in with my husband and far away from my family and I became stressed and stayed up late at night, then my hormones began to ricochet to a downward spiral. Through my whole life and even after having 2 children, being a single mom, and going to college while working a full time job, I was always slim and trim, but then I got married and had two more children, moved to France and I became sad because of the distance from my family and the stress of a new culture and being a mom of 4 with no family support. Luckily my husband is very patient, but I began to not feel like myself and year after year I would jump in weight gain. My doctor would always tell me to just "diet and exercise", like I'm a mythomaniac that is just trying to pretend it's something out of my control and I'm really just eating ice cream late at night every night, but I was and had been eating very healthy, exercising with no results and just gaining weight and feeling more and more exhausted. I would only have a period for three days! Finally, THANK TO YOU, I have been taking my herbal supplements, I have been going to bed before 10 PM and learning not to stew in my stress but to analyze my stress and not make mountains out of molehills. I began to feel like myself again, energetic, happy. I took another TSH test and realize that even my last test I was "not normal" but through French standards I was "normal" and now my thyroid is really out of the "not normal", BUT now I know I can fix it and I know that my body was right in telling me that something wrong was going on and it wasn't me in denial scarfing chips and ice cream, but really, I had a problem in my body that was causing me to just gain weight! I feel optimistic, this size 4 beautiful person I once was will be me again, I already feel like it inside and I know with time I will be this person on the outside again, so I thank you.

I have mega hormone imbalance, my estrogen is hight to my progesterone, testrone is on the lower side, thyroid is hypo, cortisol is high. I have had major surgery to remove 7 months size fibroids, adhesions and endometriosis. Now I have new endometriosis, ovarian cyst and blocked tube. This book has really helped me understand what is happening in my body, I wish I had found this sooner, before my surgery. But it is what it is, I am gradually implementing all the recommendations in the book. I hope I will be healed Soon .

Gives in depth information about hormones and how they correlate and depend on each other, far better than any online advice or anything that you can read on NHS websites, gives particular instructions and guidelines on lifestyle, diet, blood tests, supplements etc took one star off because some of the advice is mostly applicable to US and it'll be hard to find physicians or test labs in UK

Picking out a few baseline supplements for my health from this book and changing my diet to include certain other requirememts has meant that I am now acne free and have been able to reduce my anti biotics to one pill 2 tmes a week. I still have to use a particular facial ( la roche possay) wash,toner, and moisture cream each day (no moisture cream at night)and my face towel remains separate to body towel. But this book was a very big input to the changes. I read that anti biotics didn't work for some people and maybe they worked because I supported my body with the specific dietary requirements suggested in this book . I also take one acidophilus tablet (sona brand) each night on an empty stomach to keep the good bacteria flourishing. This book helped hugely in understanding the complexities of the delicate system of hormones in our bodies.

An absolutely fantastic book, where I had so many aha moments. Despite going to various doctors to work out what the heck was going on with me and gaining nothing from it, this book was a godsend in that FINALLY someone could explain what my symptoms meant and I wasn't going crazy, or making things up. After going thru the various questionnaires and following the corresponding protocols as designed by Dr Sara, I am finally understanding what has been going on with my body. My health, wellbeing and energy has been improving immensely. This is truly one of the most helpful books I have ever read, and I am sure I will be referring back to it often. I have also told all my girlfriends to buy this book.

This book offers a questionnaire that allows you to narrow down your symptoms & pin point what you are lacking. The book then takes you through possible remedies to alleviate the symptoms you are suffering. Having done a lot of my own research on the internet I didn't feel that this book offered me anything new. Unfortunately, I felt this was a complete waste of money for me, but saying that, for someone who isn't wanting to trawl the internet for information this is a good concise book with a wealth of knowledge.

A really helpful book but just be careful of the questionnaire. I filled in the questions and wrote down the outcomes and what hormone imbalances I probably have. However, I had a blood test shortly afterwards and the hormone results of those tests were completely different to the results I got from answering the book's questions. Once I knew what I was dealing with, the book was very helpful with it's advice.

This book should be given out to every girl when she hits puberty. It is BRILLIANT! Really easy to diagnose what is going on if you are feeling less than balanced and energised AT ANY STAGE IN LIFE and I love the integrative approach Sara Gottfried, MD takes. Highly recommended. We do NOT need to suffer during PMS, PMT, perimenopause or menopause, sisters!! Do yourself (and your girlfriends/daughters/sisters) a favour, grab a copy (or 2) and get empowered about your hormonal health.

Muy interesante. Me gustó aunque esperaba más info sobre dieta para bajar inflamación y ayudar a problemas inmunológicos.

Excellent book.... Every woman must read this

Ok as we age, things change and yes I know that's normal - but sometimes it's hard to accept. After the birth of my 3rd kid, I could never really lose the "baby weight." I feel like I tried everything and got to the point where I was practically WANTING my thyroid to be abnormal so I could hopefully take a medicine and lose weight. Unfortunately - that's not really how it works. Even more unfortunately, when most of us go to our doctor's to complain about this sort of standstill (or worse - gaining weight), our Drs are sympathetic (After all they hear it all the time) but have no answers beyond the standard, "eat less, exercise more" advice. Enter Dr. Sara Gottfried. In the hormone cure, she lays out the reasons why all these things we thought were just normal aging are really signs that our hormone levels are off-balance. And I don't mean menopause off-balance. I mean normal 30s, 40s not even peri-menopause off-balance. Dr Sara validates the fact that things can be off-balance in our body but that doesn't mean that our doctors will catch it, or actually even think to test it. What this Harvard trained Gynecologist does is explain all the hormones at work in your body (cortisol, thyroid, testosterone, etc) and how you optimally need them to work together to feel your best. Honestly I'd heard of all of them but how no idea how they really worked in my body. She includes easy tests to take (if you don't want to pay lab fees) in her book or what tests to have ordered at labs if you want to be sure. Then she walks you through, step-by-step, what these results ACTUALLY mean. What a real normal is (not the dr's tables looking for REALLY abnormal) and if you are slightly off - how to correct it to feel your best. It's like a user manual for hormones that you didn't even know existed yet are ruling your life! What I especially love is that a lot of Dr Gottfried's solutions are simple (not easy but simple) and involve no drugs - just lifestyle modifications (that are doable). Like heart math, or yoga breathing, or a simple food to eat. She also gives you the natural over the counter supplements you can take to fix an issue that continues (your Dr would/could NEVER do that) and then lastly, how you might use RX drugs if the issue persist. Basically covering all your bases from lifestyle fixes to drug fixes and in between - LOVE IT! Fast forward a few months, I followed JJ Virgin's foodplan that Dr Gottfried recommended, along with some heart math and some lifestyle shifts and I'm down 7 lbs that wouldn't budge just months ago! I had honestly given up hope. I would recommend this book for women who are committed to living a full life and want to know the full range of options to do it. The book is easy to read, funny, and Dr Sara is likable. It's also an amazing education that if you want to get to know your body's inner workings better - you can't miss. Read this book and someday soon, you too could be singing the "I feel awesome and my jeans are too big on me" non-blues!

Das Buch gibt einem schnellen Zugang zu verschiedenen Aspekten rund ums Thema Hormone. Besonders positiv ist, dass es sehr viel Hintergrundmaterial gibt - wer sich die Zeit nehmen und tiefer ins Thema einsteigen möchte. Sehr zu empfehlen, es sollte aber immer in Abstimmung mit dem Arzt umgesetzt werden. Da die Mengenangaben z.B. bei den Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln von den deutschen abweichen, habe ich mir die deutsche Fassung geliehen um hier die korrekten Dosierungen zu erhalten. Man kann die Umrechnung in deutsche Werte aber sicherlich auch im Internet ausrechnen.

Apprezzo il lavoro della dott.ssa ma mi aspettavo qualcosa di più da questo libro. Sono una studentessa di medicina e appassionata di endocrinologia e nutrizione. Fondamentalmente propone sempre il modello della keto di cui non sono fan.