Our Hormones, Our Health: How to Understand Your Hormones and Transform Your Life
A handbook for women who want to understand their hormones and transform their lives.

Joint pain, weight gain, migraines, acne, sleepless nights, loss of libido—hormones can cause all of this, and much more. Luckily, medical science has come a long way in recent years,and there are many treatment options available, including HRT, diet, and exercise.

Hormones affect our health throughout our lives. So why do we so often assume they are mainly “a menopause thing” and leave it until hot flashes arrive to start taking them seriously?

The truth is that before the age of 50, many women find that their hormone-related symptoms just aren’t acknowledged, despite the impact they can have on almost every aspect of their lives.

Many women are plagued with symptoms years before menopause hits.

Written by two doctors from their experience as practitioners and as women, and full of cutting edge knowledge from epigenetics, stress medicine, nutritional medicine, and modern hormone replacement therapy, Our Hormones, Our Health shows women how to live with good health, good humor, happiness—no matter what their stage of life.

  • The authors are doctors—who have experienced hormonal issues themselves: Outlines the personal experiences of the authors, who are practicing doctors
  • What does the science say about hormones: This book looks at all solutions, surveying the available science for what does or doesn’t work.
  • The only book you’ll need to read: this book is a single-source resource for women who want to understand their hormones and how to treat them.
  • For women over 30: Countless women complain of symptoms, without realizing that they are caused by hormones, starting around age 30
  • Cutting edge information about the microbiome: The authors give tips related to the microbiome and fasting
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Our Hormones, Our Health: How to Understand Your Hormones and Transform Your Life
A handbook for women who want to understand their hormones and transform their lives.

Joint pain, weight gain, migraines, acne, sleepless nights, loss of libido—hormones can cause all of this, and much more. Luckily, medical science has come a long way in recent years,and there are many treatment options available, including HRT, diet, and exercise.

Hormones affect our health throughout our lives. So why do we so often assume they are mainly “a menopause thing” and leave it until hot flashes arrive to start taking them seriously?

The truth is that before the age of 50, many women find that their hormone-related symptoms just aren’t acknowledged, despite the impact they can have on almost every aspect of their lives.

Many women are plagued with symptoms years before menopause hits.

Written by two doctors from their experience as practitioners and as women, and full of cutting edge knowledge from epigenetics, stress medicine, nutritional medicine, and modern hormone replacement therapy, Our Hormones, Our Health shows women how to live with good health, good humor, happiness—no matter what their stage of life.

  • The authors are doctors—who have experienced hormonal issues themselves: Outlines the personal experiences of the authors, who are practicing doctors
  • What does the science say about hormones: This book looks at all solutions, surveying the available science for what does or doesn’t work.
  • The only book you’ll need to read: this book is a single-source resource for women who want to understand their hormones and how to treat them.
  • For women over 30: Countless women complain of symptoms, without realizing that they are caused by hormones, starting around age 30
  • Cutting edge information about the microbiome: The authors give tips related to the microbiome and fasting
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Our Hormones, Our Health: How to Understand Your Hormones and Transform Your Life

Our Hormones, Our Health: How to Understand Your Hormones and Transform Your Life

Our Hormones, Our Health: How to Understand Your Hormones and Transform Your Life

Our Hormones, Our Health: How to Understand Your Hormones and Transform Your Life

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Overview

A handbook for women who want to understand their hormones and transform their lives.

Joint pain, weight gain, migraines, acne, sleepless nights, loss of libido—hormones can cause all of this, and much more. Luckily, medical science has come a long way in recent years,and there are many treatment options available, including HRT, diet, and exercise.

Hormones affect our health throughout our lives. So why do we so often assume they are mainly “a menopause thing” and leave it until hot flashes arrive to start taking them seriously?

The truth is that before the age of 50, many women find that their hormone-related symptoms just aren’t acknowledged, despite the impact they can have on almost every aspect of their lives.

Many women are plagued with symptoms years before menopause hits.

Written by two doctors from their experience as practitioners and as women, and full of cutting edge knowledge from epigenetics, stress medicine, nutritional medicine, and modern hormone replacement therapy, Our Hormones, Our Health shows women how to live with good health, good humor, happiness—no matter what their stage of life.

  • The authors are doctors—who have experienced hormonal issues themselves: Outlines the personal experiences of the authors, who are practicing doctors
  • What does the science say about hormones: This book looks at all solutions, surveying the available science for what does or doesn’t work.
  • The only book you’ll need to read: this book is a single-source resource for women who want to understand their hormones and how to treat them.
  • For women over 30: Countless women complain of symptoms, without realizing that they are caused by hormones, starting around age 30
  • Cutting edge information about the microbiome: The authors give tips related to the microbiome and fasting

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781950354719
Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
Publication date: 09/07/2021
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.30(w) x 8.30(h) x (d)

About the Author

Dr. Susanne Esche-Belke is a specialist in general medicine, and has been combining conventional medical knowledge with the latest findings in stress and integrative medicine in clinics and in her own practice for 20 years. Her focus is on the holistic therapy of female hormone and immune disorders. She is the co-founder of the women’s health platform Less — Doctors for Balance


Dr. Suzann Kirschner-Brouns is a doctor and mediator. As a medical journalist and author, she writes on health issues for well-known publishers and magazines. Formerly editor-in-chief of a gynaecological journal, and the health magazine of Der Spiegel, she is the co-founder of the women’s health platform Less — Doctors for Balance.


Alexandra Roesch is a bicultural, bilingual freelance translator based in Frankfurt, Germany. An experienced translator of fiction and nonfiction, she has an MA in translation from the University of Bristol and was longlisted for the 2018 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator’s Prize.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1

1 The Hormonal Vortex 3

Everything was fine, but all of a sudden you don't recognise yourself? We know that feeling all too well! 3

Midlife care starts now 16

How hormones steer our body and mind 26

2 The Hormone Carousel 30

Hormones stir us up 32

The female sex hormones 34

The stress hormones 47

The metabolism hormones 52

The thyroid hormones 55

Neurotransmitters 59

3 Balancing Our Hormones - This is How It Works 63

Using our hormones to balance our hormones 69

Perimenopause - the beginning 73

Special: Fibroids 79

Perimenopause - in the thick of it 84

Menopause 89

Hormone therapy 91

Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) 96

Phytoestrogen and other measures 117

Vitamin D: the undercover agent 123

When is hormone level measurement a good idea? 125

Regulating hormones via the gut and nutrition 128

The power of the gut in regulating our hormones 130

Hormone regulation via diet 135

Weight regulation 142

Regulating hormones via exercise 154

Hormone yoga 159

Sex 162

The thyroid's role in hormonal regulation 165

T3, T4: our drivers 166

Lesser-known hormones of the thyroid gland 169

When the thyroid applies the emergency brake 169

Hashimoto's thyroiditis (Hashimoto's disease) 170

Regulating hormones via the adrenal gland, liver, and stress reduction 183

Chronic adrenocortical insufficiency 188

Chronobiology - prescription sleeping 197

Liver detoxication 203

4 External Hormone Manipulation 205

Endocrine disruptors 205

Epigenetics - from the environment to the genes 214

5 Self-Care 219

Body-mind medicine 225

Relationships and sexuality 241

Change your view of yourself: self-compassion 267

Acknowledgements 283

Sources 285

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