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The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep, Sex Drive and Vitality Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol Hardcover – 12 Mar. 2013
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All too often women are told that feeling moody, asexual, tapped out, dried up, stressed out, and sleep deprived is just a part of being female. Or they’re led to believe that the answer can be found only at the bottom of a bottle of prescription pills. Dr. Sara Gottfried, a Harvard-educated physician and nationally recognized, board-certified gynecologist, refuses to accept that being a woman means feeling overwhelmed or that popping pills is the new normal. In The Hormone Cure, she shares the unique hormone-balancing program that she has used to help thousands of women reclaim wellness, verve, and optimal health.
Combining natural therapies with rigorous scientific testing and using an informative questionnaire to identify the common causes of hormonal imbalance, Dr. Gottfried provides an individualized plan in nonjudgmental and thoughtful language. Based on ten years’ study of cutting-edge medical research as a specialist in functional and integrative therapies, Dr. Gottfried’s three-tiered treatment strategy includes:
•Supplements and targeted lifestyle changes that address underlying deficiencies
•Herbal therapies that restore balance and optimize your body’s natural function
•Bioidentical hormones—most available without a prescription
The Hormone Cure is a groundbreaking book that demonstrates how balancing your hormones can cure underlying health issues and result in restored sleep, greater energy, improved mood, easy weight loss, increased productivity, and many more benefits. Dr. Sara Gottfried’s The Hormone Cure will transform your life.
- Print length409 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherScribner
- Publication date12 Mar. 2013
- Dimensions15.24 x 3.05 x 22.86 cm
- ISBN-101451666942
- ISBN-13978-1451666946
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- Publisher : Scribner; 1st edition (12 Mar. 2013)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 409 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1451666942
- ISBN-13 : 978-1451666946
- Dimensions : 15.24 x 3.05 x 22.86 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 514,544 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 18,095 in Women's Health & Lifestyle
- 41,795 in Health Issues
- 75,067 in Mind, Body & Spirit
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About the author

Sara Gottfried M.D. is the author of the critically-acclaimed Amazon #1 bestselling book, Women, Food, and Hormones: A 4-Week Plan to Achieve Hormonal Balance, Lose Weight, and Feel Like Yourself Again (September 21, 2021). Her book is now available on sale and you can submit your receipt to SaraGottfriedMD.com to obtain bonuses and get started.
Dr. Sara Gottfried previously published three New York Times and Amazon bestselling books, The Hormone Cure, The Hormone Reset Diet, and Younger. She is a Harvard- and MIT-educated physician, speaker, yoga teacher, and author. For the past 25 years, Dr. Sara has practiced functional and precision medicine. She is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at Thomas Jefferson University, where she is Director of Precision Medicine at the Marcus Institute of Integrative Medicine Her unique mission to change the conversation about women's health has galvanized a large community of empowered women. Learn more at SaraGottfriedMD.com.
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Customers find the book informative and helpful for understanding hormones. They find it concise and easy to understand, with no jargon. Many consider it an essential read for women in their 30s, 40s, and 50s. The pacing is described as promising and fun, with actionable solutions for mood and well-being.
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Customers find the book well-written and easy to understand. They say it's helpful and informative, especially for women.
"...This is truly one of the most helpful books I have ever read, and I am sure I will be referring back to it often...." Read more
"...Once I knew what I was dealing with, the book was very helpful with it's advice." Read more
"This book should be given out to every girl when she hits puberty. It is BRILLIANT!..." Read more
"Still reading. It’s a very interesting read. Very informative. Great price too" Read more
Customers find the book informative and useful for understanding hormones and how they relate to each other. They say it provides clear, accessible information about hormones and how they impact moods. The book is described as interesting and enlightening, with great explanations about mood swings.
"...I began to feel like myself again, energetic, happy...." Read more
"...gives particular instructions and guidelines on lifestyle, diet, blood tests, supplements etc..." Read more
"...My health, wellbeing and energy has been improving immensely...." Read more
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Customers find the book easy to read and understand. They say it's concise with clear information that can be translated into everyday life. Readers also mention it has a wealth of knowledge and is a good introduction text.
"...gives particular instructions and guidelines on lifestyle, diet, blood tests, supplements etc..." Read more
"...isn't wanting to trawl the internet for information this is a good concise book with a wealth of knowledge." Read more
"...Having her guidance in this easily readable book has been invaluable to me...." Read more
"...So well written and easy to understand - a really good text on introducing you to an understanding of hormone health- so incredibly important to us..." Read more
Customers find the book an essential read for women. They say it's a must-have for any woman, especially those in their 30s, 40s, and 50s.
"This book is a must read for women who want to really understand their hormones! Very informative." Read more
"Thank you! A great book to help females understand that they are in charge of their body and that they can make the right change in order to..." Read more
"Brilliant book. As must read for women especially 40 on wards...." Read more
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Customers find the book's pacing engaging. They say each chapter is a promising journey with actionable solutions for mood and well-being.
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- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 7 February 2017I will post here what I wrote her directly on her web site:
I learned so much from your book, and sure enough, I had a low thyroid which was causing my rapid unexplained weight gain. Thanks to you, I realized the beginning was when I moved in with my husband and far away from my family and I became stressed and stayed up late at night, then my hormones began to ricochet to a downward spiral. Through my whole life and even after having 2 children, being a single mom, and going to college while working a full time job, I was always slim and trim, but then I got married and had two more children, moved to France and I became sad because of the distance from my family and the stress of a new culture and being a mom of 4 with no family support. Luckily my husband is very patient, but I began to not feel like myself and year after year I would jump in weight gain. My doctor would always tell me to just "diet and exercise", like I'm a mythomaniac that is just trying to pretend it's something out of my control and I'm really just eating ice cream late at night every night, but I was and had been eating very healthy, exercising with no results and just gaining weight and feeling more and more exhausted. I would only have a period for three days! Finally, THANK TO YOU, I have been taking my herbal supplements, I have been going to bed before 10 PM and learning not to stew in my stress but to analyze my stress and not make mountains out of molehills. I began to feel like myself again, energetic, happy. I took another TSH test and realize that even my last test I was "not normal" but through French standards I was "normal" and now my thyroid is really out of the "not normal", BUT now I know I can fix it and I know that my body was right in telling me that something wrong was going on and it wasn't me in denial scarfing chips and ice cream, but really, I had a problem in my body that was causing me to just gain weight! I feel optimistic, this size 4 beautiful person I once was will be me again, I already feel like it inside and I know with time I will be this person on the outside again, so I thank you.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 22 May 2024I have mega hormone imbalance, my estrogen is hight to my progesterone, testrone is on the lower side, thyroid is hypo, cortisol is high. I have had major surgery to remove 7 months size fibroids, adhesions and endometriosis. Now I have new endometriosis, ovarian cyst and blocked tube. This book has really helped me understand what is happening in my body, I wish I had found this sooner, before my surgery. But it is what it is, I am gradually implementing all the recommendations in the book. I hope I will be healed
Soon .
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 June 2014Gives in depth information about hormones and how they correlate and depend on each other,
far better than any online advice or anything that you can read on NHS websites,
gives particular instructions and guidelines on lifestyle, diet, blood tests, supplements etc
took one star off because some of the advice is mostly applicable to US and it'll be hard to find physicians or test labs in UK
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 21 April 2014An absolutely fantastic book, where I had so many aha moments.
Despite going to various doctors to work out what the heck was going on with me and gaining nothing from it, this book was a godsend in that FINALLY someone could explain what my symptoms meant and I wasn't going crazy, or making things up.
After going thru the various questionnaires and following the corresponding protocols as designed by Dr Sara, I am finally understanding what has been going on with my body. My health, wellbeing and energy has been improving immensely.
This is truly one of the most helpful books I have ever read, and I am sure I will be referring back to it often.
I have also told all my girlfriends to buy this book.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 1 May 2023This book is a must read for women who want to really understand their hormones! Very informative.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 9 September 2016This book offers a questionnaire that allows you to narrow down your symptoms & pin point what you are lacking. The book then takes you through possible remedies to alleviate the symptoms you are suffering.
Having done a lot of my own research on the internet I didn't feel that this book offered me anything new.
Unfortunately, I felt this was a complete waste of money for me, but saying that, for someone who isn't wanting to trawl the internet for information this is a good concise book with a wealth of knowledge.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 17 December 2020A really helpful book but just be careful of the questionnaire. I filled in the questions and wrote down the outcomes and what hormone imbalances I probably have. However, I had a blood test shortly afterwards and the hormone results of those tests were completely different to the results I got from answering the book's questions. Once I knew what I was dealing with, the book was very helpful with it's advice.
- Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 31 August 2014Picking out a few baseline supplements for my health from this book and changing my diet to include certain other requirememts has meant that I am now acne free and have been able to reduce my anti biotics to one pill 2 tmes a week. I still have to use a particular facial ( la roche possay) wash,toner, and moisture cream each day (no moisture cream at night)and my face towel remains separate to body towel. But this book was a very big input to the changes. I read that anti biotics didn't work for some people and maybe they worked because I supported my body with the specific dietary requirements suggested in this book . I also take one acidophilus tablet (sona brand) each night on an empty stomach to keep the good bacteria flourishing. This book helped hugely in understanding the complexities of the delicate system of hormones in our bodies.
Top reviews from other countries
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VanBReviewed in Mexico on 18 March 2025
4.0 out of 5 stars Interesantw
Muy interesante. Me gustó aunque esperaba más info sobre dieta para bajar inflamación y ayudar a problemas inmunológicos.
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SnoopyReviewed in Germany on 13 August 2015
5.0 out of 5 stars The Hormone Cure - Sara Gottfried
Das Buch gibt einem schnellen Zugang zu verschiedenen Aspekten rund ums Thema Hormone. Besonders positiv ist, dass es sehr viel Hintergrundmaterial gibt - wer sich die Zeit nehmen und tiefer ins Thema einsteigen möchte. Sehr zu empfehlen, es sollte aber immer in Abstimmung mit dem Arzt umgesetzt werden. Da die Mengenangaben z.B. bei den Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln von den deutschen abweichen, habe ich mir die deutsche Fassung geliehen um hier die korrekten Dosierungen zu erhalten. Man kann die Umrechnung in deutsche Werte aber sicherlich auch im Internet ausrechnen.
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AliceReviewed in Italy on 7 March 2023
4.0 out of 5 stars Mi aspettavo qualcosa di più…
Apprezzo il lavoro della dott.ssa ma mi aspettavo qualcosa di più da questo libro. Sono una studentessa di medicina e appassionata di endocrinologia e nutrizione. Fondamentalmente propone sempre il modello della keto di cui non sono fan.
- Ashley KrausReviewed in France on 11 June 2024
5.0 out of 5 stars Very good book
I am really happy with my purchase, the book is so interesting! I haven’t finished it yet but I definitely recommend it.
- seema soodReviewed in India on 12 May 2014
5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent book.
A whole new insight!!! As a doctor, I endorse this book completely. A must read for every female. Clear and concise .