From Library Journal
Vliet, the founder and medical director of a women's health care center, believes that hormones play a significant role in women's health, especially in the perimenopausal and menopausal years. Varying levels of estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone can be linked to depression, chronic fatigue, migraines, fibromylagia, bladder problems, heart disease, and cancer. Vliet convincingly defends hormone replacement therapy, although controversial, as a corrective and preventive treatment, providing it is individualized and integrated with alternative therapies. It is unfortunate that Vliet's book is aimed at health care professionals and informed lay readers, because the medical jargon can be arduous for general readers, yet its detailed information could help women make informed decisions. A broad overview can be found in Susan M. Lark's The Estrogen Decision: A Self-Help Program (National Nursing Consortium, 1994). Highly recommended for medical collections. (Index and illustrations not seen.)?Lisa A. Errico-Cox, Nassau Community Coll., Garden City, N.Y.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


Book Description
In this book, Dr.Vliet continues her crusade to debunk myths and misinformation on women's health.


Book Info
Comprehensive consumer text discusses loss of sex drive, menstrual migraines, memory loss, weight gain, loss of energy, food cravings, insomnia, palpitations, fibromyalgia, allergies, incontinence, and more. Previous edition: c1995. Explains most recent medical discoveries and products, and addresses conflicting headlines and claims.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

Are you among the millions of women who are suffering from health problems like these? Loss of sex drive; menstrual migraines; memory loss and "brain fog"; Weight gain, especially around the waist; loss of energy, chronic fatigue; PMS -- getting worse as you get older! Chocolate, alcohol, or food cravings; insomnia or restless sleep -- especially with your period; palpitations, anxiety attacks, and mood swings; fibromyalgia or joint pains; incontinence, bladder pain, or vulvodynia; allergies and worsening yeast problems.

Are you tired of making the rounds of doctors and other health care professionals, not finding solutions, feeling no one is listening? Are you tired of taking multiple medicines or supplements for symptoms without identifying the underlying cause? Have you tried every therapy in the book and still don't feel like yourself? Are you too young to feel this old? If any of these describe you, you need this book!

Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D., shows you how women still suffer needlessly in a flawed health system that trains physicians who ignore the crucial hormone connections triggering many of the health problems that plague women. The truth is that these hormone-influenced problems are still not routinely diagnosed, and women frequently are given costly medications with side effects and drug interactions that rob them of energy and vitality.

In this newly revised and expanded edition of Screaming to Be Heard, Dr. Vliet solidifies her reputation for hard-hitting, cutting-edge information, solidly based on good science, while debunking the myths and misinformation that abound in the explosion of books, magazine articles and advertising on women's health issues. This new edition explains the most recent medical discoveries and products, and addresses conflicting headlines and claims, such as: "Natural" hormone options vs. Pregnant mares' urine; Updates on testosterone for women, when to use or avoid DHEA; Blood vs. saliva tests -- which are best? "Designer" estrogens and SERMS -- hidden risks and pitfalls; Herbs, soy, and wild yam creams -- how effective are they?; Estrogen and breast cancer -- critical points the media overlooks; Estrogen's effect on the heart -- was the HERS Study misleading?

Screaming to Be Heard is a rallying cry to every woman whose body knowledge has been dismissed as simply "hypochondriacal," "anxious-neurotic," or "hysterical." Based on Dr. Vliet's twenty years of clinical practice of evaluating and treating the hormone-related problems of thousands of women, and solidly grounded in the latest medical research from around the world, Screaming to Be Heard provides the answers, hope and help not addressed in most women's health books.

A long-standing women's health advocate, Dr. Vliet has taught several hundred CME courses for physicians and health professionals, as well as consumer programs. In her courses and now in her book, she describes the commonly unrecognized ovarian hormonal changes and fluctuations that trigger a wide variety of puzzling symptoms and health problems that plague women and rob them of zest and vitality. Women have said, "Dr. Vliet's book reads like a medical detective story. It provides an eye-opening explanation of things we should have been told years ago, things the medical profession has failed to research and take seriously."