THE ESTROGEN ALTERNATIVE: NATURAL HORMONE THERAPY WITH BOTANICAL PROGESTERONE By Raquel Martin with Judi Gerstung, D.C. Healing Arts Press, 1997, 212 pages, paper. The third edition of The Estrogen Alternative, Natural Hormone Therapy with Botanical Progesterone offers solutions to the appalling consequences of misdiagnosis and mistreatment of hormone imbalance. This book provides answers to the problems of PMS, infertility, menopause, heart disease and even fibromyalgia. It also contains educational support in the prevention and even reversal of osteoporosis, and explains how women can prevent female disorders that often result with their being faced with the decision to undergo a hysterectomy. This work includes many studies showing how progesterone opposes estrogen's stimulatory effect on cell growth, as found in endometriosis, fibroids and cancers of the breast, uterus and ovaries. This new edition provides important in-vitro studies demonstrating that test tube cancers of both the male and female reproductive systems were stimulated on a genetic level by the addition of estrogen. |