Linda Ojeda has long maintained that menopause is a natural stage in a
woman's life, not a pathology that must be "medicalized." In Menopause
Without Medicine, she takes a sympathetic, science-based approach to
this still poorly understood and often maltreated natural phenomenon.
Now in its fifth edition, this definitive book includes a detailed
response to recent findings from the National Institutes of Health about
the dangers of conventional HRT (hormone replacement therapy),
explaining why synthetic HRT has been found harmful and offering a wide
range of alternatives. The author covers all current nonmedical
approaches to menopausal symptoms, and explains what women can do if
supplements, herbs, and soy products do not work for them. This updated
perennial bestseller on nonmedical approaches to menopause includes
tables and photographs.