Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life: Achieving Optimal Health and Wellness through Ayurveda, Chinese Medicine, and Western Science
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An accessible, thorough guide to hormones, how and why they become unbalanced, and the steps to restore hormonal health from holistic medicine expert Dr. Claudia Welch.
Internationally renowned Doctor of Oriental Medicine Claudia Welch breaks through the secrets behind hormonal health using the principles of Ayurveda and the holistic sensibility of Dr. Christiane Northrup. Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life gives women the essential tools to achieve the perfect balance between their yin (sex hormones) and yang (stress hormones), and between the body and the mind.
You’ll find the information you need to restore your body’s natural harmony, including:
Tips to help heal your most pressing concerns, from menstrual pain, infertility, and menopause to breast and heart healthThe best foods to eat for optimal health and wellnessNatural sleep secretsWhat to do when you are just feeling crummyHow stress sabotages hormonal balancePractical, easy-to-adopt stress-management techniques
Publisher : Da Capo Lifelong Books; 1st edition (March 22, 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 352 pages
ISBN-10 : 0738214825
ISBN-13 : 978-0738214825
Item Weight : 14.4 ounces
Dimensions : 6 x 1.2 x 9.05 inches
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anonymous –
Stellar Book– Ayurveda, Understanding Hormones, Healing PMS, Cramps, Stress
I can not recommend this book highly enough. It was one of the very best books I have ever read about women’s health, and my book is highlighted the whole way through for future reference. Welch really outdid herself, and by other other 5-star reviews, I’m sure you can see how very helpful this book is.What I really like about this book is that Welch makes sense of hormones, PMS symptoms, and that wigged-out stress I used to feel coursing through my body at the drop of a dime in very simple Ayurvedic/TCM terms. I felt a mounting concern about how my cycles were becoming more painful, feeling stressed all the time, and feeling increasing stagnation in the pelvic area. And with the help of this book, I feel I am on the path to lifelong health.What I love about this book is that the solutions are simple. Welch sites several studies throughout the whole book. She references studies that show that diet and lifestyle can resolve something like 90% of all of our illnesses. Welch makes a great case for self care, doing yoga, pranayam, and meditation daily, having a daily routine, going walking at the same time of day, oil massages, simple foods during stress, eating healthily. I am so happy to report that my first moon after having read this book has been the best I’ve had in years, with only dull cramping. I feel confident as I go along with the recommendations in this book, my cycle will also become gentle and consistent once again.The only thing that I skimmed through was the diet section. If you are into Nourishing Traditions and eating organic, farm-based foods, just keep on doing what you’re doing. Although Welch has read Omnivore’s Dilema, the book definitely is written with a bias towards vegetarianism. Not a big deal, just something you might want to know. Nourishing Traditions and this book can still go together.
K. McCain –
Every woman needs this bookâseriously
I wish I would have had this book before I was put on birth control pills for 17 years (yes, 17) to manage my horrible cramps. I would have never taken the pill, despite its ‘safety’ and reliability over the years. I didn’t really need it, I needed a better diet, more sleep and stress management. I wish my grandmother would have had this book before being put on Hormone Replacement Therapy for over 20 straight yearsâshe died too early of heart disease thanks solely to that mess (this was confirmed). While hindsight (and access to the Internet) makes the dangers of hormonal drugs easily available, many of us just trust our doctors, especially when we are miserable and will try anything to feel better at some point.Knowledge is power and this book is full of fantastic information, some of which I have already learned through years of investigation and research but much of it I had not. And I consider myself more informed than most women I personally know. This book is helpful for both women in their childbearing years as well as those near or in menopause. It’s also very helpful in understanding more about the thyroid. I had mine tested recently and realized that, while my doctor says I’m in the “normal” range, I am in fact, not…not if I want to have a child that is (and I do). And I look like the picture of health from the outside, so I would have never thought to investigate more deeply into my thyroid and other hormone imbalances if it were not for this book.Every woman should have this in her personal library and lend it or buy it for their female friends & loved ones. I also strongly suggest reading Taking Control of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler (get the actual book, not the Kindle version…you’ll reference it a lot and will want to flip back and forth). I’d also suggest “The Thyroid Hormone Breakthrough” by Mary J. Shomon, but I didn’t get that book until I finished this book (and TCOYF). All three books complement each other and give a greater picture of, as a woman, how to really take control of your health and know how your female body works, despite what doctors tell (or many times, don’t tell) you. At the end of the day, we are all responsible for taking care of our own health and should absorb as much information as we can so we are better armed with knowledge and the power to help choose the right protocol of care for ourselves.
Spartan Mind Strength⢠–
“Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life” – book review by Yoga Energy Studio
The book is 305 pages full of abundant and scientifically sound information. Her writing and teaching brings invaluable information to the reader in an easy to follow and witty form. I have enjoyed this book so much that the studio has made it required reading for our Yoga and Ayurveda Therapy Teacher Training 300-hour, 750-hour and 1,000-hour.I have been recommending this book to my private clients. The ones who have read it have gained a better understanding of Ayurveda and because of this they were able to take more control and responsibility over their healing process. I have found that most people are more willing to implement a change if they know that there is science behind it. This book enables me to easily show people the science behind Ayurveda and Chinese medicine.Furthermore, “Balance Your Hormones, Balance Your Life” not only covers the meeting ground of Eastern and Western medicine, it also explains a lot of myths and misconceptions that have been polluting both systems. Dr. Claudia Welch has been able to identify how the term “statistics” can be misleading when it comes to the Western medicine and how “folklore” can be falsely passed as Eastern medicine.There is so much knowledge in this book that, dare I say, after a layman studies it, they will understand and know more than some ayurvedic practitioners that I have met.I recommend this book to every one that wants to learn more about Ayurveda, Chinese medicince, or simply aspires to becoming and staying healthy.Thank you Claudia for the gift of this book!Sylvie Binga, MSayurvedavie@gmail.com[…]
DF1 –
Excellent book!
I am enjoying this book very much. Provides great info and is well written. So important for women of all ages.
Muy mala calidad, se para continuamente. Lo he devuelto –
Muy bueno
Samuel Rosenow –
Meine Frau hat dieses Buch gekauft und mit den Lektionen aus diesem Buch hat sie ihre Ernährung geändert und einen gesunden Lebensstil gefunden.
Amazon Customer –
Alcuni spunti interessanti ma niente che non sia già noto. Non l’ ho trovato molto utile
Vikram –
This book focuses on female body. Men can gain knowledge about commonalities and hormones. However book is written about the female hormones and balancing it
Jeanne T. –
I love this book. Simple, straightforward, well written, melts together the concepts of ayurveda and TMC, and it’s a really warm, comforting book. Too many books and blogs and videos nowadays are about always running everywhere, feeding on salads, doing constant cardio, following strict eating regiments, etc. This book doesn’t pressure you. It’s all about balance and wholeness, and figuring out what works for you and your constitution. At the most basic level, it’s essential to ask yourself what you need more of in your life, and what you need less of. The author doesn’t give you a one and only detailed programm of what EVERYONE should do; instead it’s carefully explained how to assess what state your body is in and what the nature of your imbalance is. The book doesn’t either take a stand against veganism or vegetarianism, which is great considering the fact that TMC and ayurveda are at their core mostly vegetarian and that so many modern practitioners seem to forget that. But if that’s not your thing, you’re not pressured either, just reminded to buy quality product. Personally I’m someone handicapped with PTSD and hormonal issues and chronic pain (mostly due probably to lack of sleep, constant stress, etc) and the concepts and ideas shared about rest, nourishment, and the importance of having rituals and being in your body deeply really resonated with me. I’d definitely recommend this book if you want a deep but gentle change or if you feel kinda stuck and half burnt out.