The cozy season is just around the corner. As we head into the very last summer month, we’ve handily selected our picks of the best women’s health books you don’t want to miss.
The Female Factor: Making women’s health count – and what it means for you (£15.46)
The male body has always been the default body in clinical medicine, making the assumption that women are just smaller versions of men. This could not be more wrong.
The Female Factor is a bold, comprehensive guide to understanding women’s health shakes up the narrative for women of all ages, providing methods to protect and maximise your health in positive, affirming steps.
Spanning nutrition, movement, mood, sleep and 50 balanced recipes, this is a blueprint to understanding and aligning your wellbeing, your hormones and your body, both in the short-term and long-term.
Dare to Dream: My struggle to Become a Mum – A Story of Heartache and Hope (£7.39)
Having been told by doctors that, due to Izzy’s polycystic ovarian syndrome, they would have difficulty conceiving – after two years of trying, Izzy and her husband turned to IVF.
In Dare to Dream, Izzy’s aim is to break through some of the taboos surrounding miscarriage, IVF and fertility issues. This deeply personal account acknowledges the struggles that many couples go through but ultimately focuses on the positive, life-changing results that IVF can yield.
Period Power: Harness Your Hormones and Get Your Cycle Working For You (£11.68)
Period Power, is the handbook to periods and hormones that will help you align your daily life with your menstrual cycle and improve your menstrual health.
The hormones of the menstrual cycle profoundly influence our energy, mood and behaviour, but all too often we are taught that our hormones make us unreliable, moody, or that it’s our lot in life to put up with ‘women’s problems’.
Maisie Hill, a women’s health practitioner, knows the power of working with the menstrual cycle and refuses to accept this theory. Instead, she believes that our hormones are there to serve us and, if utilised correctly, can be used to help us get what we want out of life. Yes, we are hormonal, and that’s a very good thing.
Period Power reveals everything you need to know about taking control of your menstrual cycle and outlines The Cycle Strategy to help us perform at our best, throughout our cycle.
Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) (£12.99)
Everything You Need to Know About the Menopause (but were too afraid to ask) by campaigner, journalist and documentary-maker, Kate Muir, is the thinking woman’s guide to the menopause, bringing you answers to all those questions that have been hidden behind a veneer of misplaced shame, bad science and centuries of patriarchy.
Muir draws on interviews with medical experts in the field, interlaced with her own tumultuous journey through the menopause and the personal stories of women from all walks of life, sharing their varied experiences and hard-earned wisdom.
As she debunks the myths that surround hormone replacement therapy and exposes the sloppy science and hysterical headlines, Muir questions why the current medical establishment is getting the menopause so wrong and takes a close look at the different options available for treating both body and mind during the profound changes that take us into midlife and beyond.
This guide is a social, cultural and scientific exploration into an overlooked and under-discussed phenomenon that will affect one billion of us by 2025 and calls for equality in healthcare and an entirely new approach to women’s health.
How the Pill Changes Everything: Your Brain on Birth Control (£8.67)
Hormonal birth control is taken by millions of women around the world every day. Yet until recently we knew very little about how the pill affects the non-reproductive systems of the female body, because research on these other systems was conducted almost exclusively on men.
In her book, Dr Sarah Hill, associate professor of psychology and a researcher in evolutionary psychology, uses the latest science to reveal how the pill is changing women and the world, for better and worse. She puts the power back in your hands to make smarter, more informed choices about your health and your hormones.
How the Pill Changes Everything reveals, for the first time, the crucial information every woman taking hormonal birth control needs to know.
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