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who told women if their hormones
created problems, there were surgical
Doctor Victoria J. Mondloch: Making a interventions like a hysterectomy (with
or without taking the ovaries) ‘because
Difference for Women through your body won’t need those hormones
anymore once you get to menopause’.
Hormone Balancing Later, women learned there were
artificial hormone medications they
could take to avoid surgery or treat
certain problems like infertility or
excessive bleeding. All this knowledge
made women think they were in
charge, but women were still in the
dark.
Thanks to Doctor Vicki’s tireless quest,
women are learning to truly be in
charge. She has a website and blogs,
and patients have shared their
triumphs, but a good deal of the
understanding and empowerment
comes from Dr. Mondloch’s books. She
has planned a series of four; the last to
be devoted to male hormones, and the
other three shedding light on the
hormonal connection at different ages
and stages of women’s lives. Her
Blossoming book is a mother-daughter
guide to discussing what happens in
adolescence to age 20 or so. The second
book, which made its debut in
Dr. Victoria Mondloch is making a every organ in our body?” Dr. November, is called Full Bloom and it
difference for women in one Vicki says regarding the covers the perimenopausal,
specific way—by enhancing their demonization of hormones. The menopausal and post-menopausal
health. She is a patient-centric fact that patients call her ‘Doctor years from age 40 to 80 and beyond.
Internal Medicine physician with a Vicki’, because of her warm and These books are essential guides that
history as an OB/GYN, who personal bedside manner, is help women learn the difference
believes in looking deeper, making another reason she makes a balanced hormones make—from feeling
decisions collaboratively and noticeable difference. ‘lousy, to ‘just hanging in there’ or
getting better outcomes. Just what feeling ‘just okay’, to living with true
is it that she looks at so closely? Doctor Vicki is on a very special happiness and vitality while your body
Our hormones--the different keeps you forever age ‘age 45’.
types that women have present, in mission. She wants to share her
knowledge, open women’s minds,
what quantities, and all the ways and empower them to take a more In Full Bloom, Dr. Mondloch outlines
they are utilized by our bodies active role in their health and the various hormone systems
throughout our organs, systems throughout the body and likens keeping
and receptors, and at varying ages. wellness destiny. She mentions your body balanced to a four-legged
that our first line of knowledge
(about reproductive health) came chair. If one leg is loose, it lists and you
“If hormones are so bad, then why from our mothers. They had been sit differently, avoiding that leg. If two
does our body make them for so are broken it falters and if all four are
many years and then take them told you have hormones so you loose; ‘Oops’, you’re flat on the floor--
can have babies. After you stop
away? And why does the human having babies, things change. The but you don’t realize how you got there
body have hormone receptors in next line was old-school doctors, or how to get back up!
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