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Summary: Screaming to be Heard
Review: Finally,finally, finally! A Doctor with a common sense approach to womens's health needs. I've been looking for 25yrs for answers to my questions. She provides the detailed information you need about these health issues. Dr. Vliet has taken detailed and complicated information and presents it, so you can take charge of your health plans. She gives us the information we need to make informed decisions with our health care providers. Thank you Dr. Vliet for your life's work of helping women with health care issues.
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Summary: Hope for the second half of my life
Review: For about 25 years I have searched for an answer to PMS and now menopausal depression. No doctor has been able to help me. I have been constantly told to see psychologists and psychiatrists and that I need to take antidepressants which has never solved my problem. I have long suspected hormones in some way to be responsible and now I do know they are after reading "Screaming to Be Heard". I am in the process of scheduling an appointment with Dr. Vliet in Tucson as my last ditch effort, so to speak, to get to the bottom of this horrible problem. I want to have a better second half of my life than the first.
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Summary: Finally some straight answers!
Review: Here is straight, knowledgable advice based on science and research and respect for what women feel! Thank you Dr. Vliet!!I highly recommend this book for anyone out there who can't get straight answers on balancing hormones. The problem that I encountered in the plethora of literature that I read was that books on "natural" normonal balance never discussed any negative side effects that can occur in a woman. This book is honest and easy to understand. A must for every woman's library!
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Summary: An answer to a prayer!!!
Review: I am by no means a religious woman. But one evening, as I was feeling particularly exhausted, I got on my hands and knees and prayed to God that I would find a way out of this physical hell that I had been experiencidng since the birth of my daughter 3 1/2 years ago. Literally, within days, I found myself on the telephone with a childhood friend telling her of my troubles. I told her all about the extreme fatigue, the anxiety, the lack of motivation and spark in my life, the decreased sexual desire and the headaches. I was so relieved when she confided that she too had experienced similar symptoms but that there was a way out and a light at the end of the tunnel. That light is Dr. Vliet. My friend recommended that I buy Dr. Vliet's book which I promptly did. After having read "Screaming To Be Heard", I educated myself, then I insisted on having my hormone levels tested. What I found out is that EVEN at 34 years old hormone levels can have a profound effect on a woman's health. Dr. Vliet teaches us in this amazing book to listen to our body's wisdom. Having found this book truly was an answer to a prayer....I am on my way!!
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Summary: The hormone bible.
Review: I bought this book for my wife after all the doctors we saw said that her severe depression and anxiety were due to a nervous condition (depression). All they wanted to do was prescribe Prozac, while I insisted that the cause was physical, and hormone related. We later found that her thyroid, progesterone and estrogen levels were low. Local doctors said that these levels were "normal," when in fact they were on the low end of the scale. Apparently her body was demanding higher levels of these powerful hormones that control many central nervous system functions - like mood. After suffering for a year and a half with these swings between severe anxiety and severe depression, she went to Dr. Vliet's office and within a couple of months was back to her old self. Thank you for giving my wife back to me Dr. Vliet. Thank you for being a real doctor - not a "Prozac cures all" doctor. This book is the hormone bible. You (and your family) need it.
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Summary: GREAT book for women who have ever felt like SCREAMING!
Review: I found this book very helpful in understanding all of those delicate hormonal imbalances that can be triggered by an untreated Hypothyroidism. (...) Likely I found an excellent doctor who took my symptoms seriously and did not think it was all in my head. Now, I'm on my way to recovery, slowly but surely. My advice: Read all you can about the subject. Demand to be taken seriously and don't give up!
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Summary: This book changed my life!!
Review: I learned more about my body - and hormonal connections - in this book than I have ever known (age 42!). I did go to Dr. Vliet's clinic -- with fantastic ongoing results. However, her goal is NOT to get you into her clinic -- it's to educate women about their bodies -- so that when you walk into your doctor's office you KNOW what you're talking about -- and can ask for very specific blood-tests. We have to be very PRO-ACTIVE in our health care these days -- and every woman needs to have the information in this book.
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Summary: Fantastic real-life patient situations that are real .
Review: I loved this book, 17-b estradiol is the way to go, I have never felt better
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Summary: only a starting point
Review: I read this book more than once, as well as Women, Weight, and Hormones, had a consult with dr Vliet and must say this book is a well researched starting point but that since then I have found other books more helpful. I suggest the excellent book by Uzzi Reiss MD, Natural Hormone Balance for concrete suggestions that addressed some problems I developed during NHRT treatment, Dr John Lee What your doctor may not tell you about menopause, and Alan Gaby's book on osteoporosis. It is my experience that without a well thought out plan of attack and a doctor who really listens, you end up in side effect city. Thanks to Dr Reiss I now am able to implement something that really works in balance with my body.
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Summary: A Much Needed book to understand what goes on my body
Review: I've had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Vleit not once, but twice at polycystic ovarian syndrome association meetings and what she says makes sense. The Doctors may not agree with her, but I do. I was tickled pink with Dr. Vleit's second edition of her book. She has an excellent writing style that makes her writing accessible. She encourages us to take the initiative to go and read other medical texts and learn! What a refreshing approach to medicine!
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