Includes indexes.

The best period -- Life cycles, crashes, and crossings -- Perimenopause-the mid-life crossing -- Hormones: terrorists or peacekeepers? -- The stress connections or when your hormones go haywire -- It's not all in your mind, but it is in your brain -- Hormonal havoc to harmony -- Mid-life maladies and natural solutions -- Hormone replacement therapy: should you or shouldn't you? -- Hot flashes, night sweats, and heart palpitations -- Those restless nights -- Mental fuzziness and memory loss -- Moods swings and body blues -- Lackluster libido, vaginal dryness, and utis-- and your love life -- Mirror, mirror: help for skin, hair, and bones -- The stubborn and angry gut -- Menstrual migraines -- Mid-life and mid-section weight gain -- The hormone wellness twelve-week plan -- Tired, wired, and hungry? hormones in balance week-by-week guide -- Is s-e-l-f a four-letter word? -- Get off the roller coaster: eat well, eat often -- Mom was right: eat your fruits and vegetables -- Turn down the thermostat with phytoestrogens -- Get fired up with water -- Fats: friend or foe? -- The calcium cure -- Tame the tantrum with whole grains and fiber -- Kick the habit: the caffeine and sugar blues -- Exercise your options -- Light up your life and lift your mood -- Connecting through change -- The power for change -- Meal plan and recipes -- Hormone wellness planning guide -- Recipes for change -- Sample food-and-feelings journal.