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Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing

by Christiane Northrup

Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom: Creating Physical and Emotional Health and Healing Cover

ISBN13: 9780553379532
ISBN10: 0553379534
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A groundbreaking book on women's physical and emotional well-being, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom has become a classic, with more than 270,000 copies in print in the four years since its initial publication. Now it has been completely revised, offering the most up-to-date information available on women's health issues.

Christiane Northrup's vision of mind-body wellness has received an extraordinary response from women all over the world. Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom powerfully demonstrates that when women change the basic conditions of their lives that lead to health problems, they heal faster, more completely, and with far fewer medical interventions.

Now Dr. Northrup brings us vital new information about the best techniques of Western medicine and the best alternative therapies, showing how to incorporate both into a complementary whole. She guides readers through the entire range of women's health problems, and offers strikingly new, positive perspectives on normal processes, such as menstruation, pregnancy, and menopause. This edition includes:

  • An all-new nutrition chapter emphasizing individual dietary needs and body chemistry

  • New information on improving fertility after age 35--and how to cut the risk of C-section by 50 percent

  • A completely updated program for menopause, including how to decide whether natural hormone replacement is right for you

  • Holistic ways to prepare and heal faster if surgery is necessary

  • Plus dozens of new natural treatments and a wealth of hard-to-find health care resources

    Filled with dramatic case histories from the famed Women to Women health care center, Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom is contemporary medicine at its best, combining new technologies with natural remedies and the miraculous healing powers within the body itself.

    • Book News Annotation:

    New edition of a guide to women's physical and emotional well-being. Supports the viewpoint that when women change the basic conditions of their lives, they heal faster and more completely. Contains updated information on a range of subjects organized into three major sections--from external control to inner guidance, anatomy, and how to integrate the best techniques of Western medicine with alternative therapies.
    Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

    Synopsis:

    With more than 270,000 copies in print, the new classic guide to women's physical and emotional well-being is completely revised to address women's most pressing health concerns.
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    About the Author

    Christiane Northrup, M.D., trained at Dartmouth Medical School and Tufts New England Medical Center before cofounding the Women to Women health care center in Yarmouth, Maine, which has become a model for women's clinics nationwide. She is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology, past president of the American Holistic Medical Association, and an internationally recognized speaker for women's health and healing. She is also Assistant Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Vermont College of Medicine.
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    Dirk, July 19, 2008 (view all comments by Dirk)
    The woman is wise and witty and has helped many women, and their men, to understand the changes women go through. Thank the lord Harry!
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    SusannaLuck, February 2, 2008 (view all comments by SusannaLuck)
    This is a life-changing book for me and I don't use that term lightly.
    I feel the need to give a copy of this book to every woman in my life. There is no-one I can think of (man or woman) who would not benefit from reading it.
    It's easy to read, citing hundreds of medical studies as well as the anecdotal stories of real women, full of facts gleaned from Dr Northrop's years in practice as an OB/GYN and loaded with remedies and steps we can all take to improve our lives immeasurably.
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    Product Details

    ISBN:
    9780553379532
    Subtitle:
    (creating physical and emotional health and healing )
    Author:
    Northrup, Christiane
    Author:
    Northrup
    Publisher:
    Bantam Books
    Location:
    New York :
    Subject:
    Women
    Subject:
    Women's Health - General
    Subject:
    Health and hygiene
    Subject:
    Women's Health - Menopause
    Subject:
    Diseases
    Subject:
    Gynecology
    Subject:
    Generative organs, female
    Subject:
    Holistic Medicine
    Subject:
    Genital Diseases, Female
    Subject:
    Women -- Health and hygiene.
    Subject:
    Holistic health.
    Subject:
    Women's Health.
    Copyright:
    1998
    Edition Description:
    Completely rev. and updated.
    Series Volume:
    107-98
    Publication Date:
    1998
    Binding:
    Trade Paper
    Language:
    English
    Illustrations:
    Yes
    Pages:
    xxxii, 906 p.
    Dimensions:
    8.99x6.05x2.10 in. 2.12 lbs.
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