Reddit reviews The Hormone Cure: Reclaim Balance, Sleep and Sex Drive; Lose Weight; Feel Focused, Vital, and Energized Naturally with the Gottfried Protocol

To start, there is one simple book I look back to often as I learn more about these things or want certain definitions for hormones and organs I hear about, it's called What You Must Know About Women's Hormones by Pamela Smith. It explains the roles and harmonies of all the different hormones and explains the different syndromes and hormonal disorders women face.

A second book I like a lot is called The Hormone Cure by Sara Gottfried, as she explains with more detail the benefits of bioidentical progesterone cream/therapy and other types of therapies helpful for different female problems.

Then, there is a lot to be read about the anatomy of the brain, specifically temporal lobes/ the temporolimbic system, the hypothalamus, amygdala, the endocrine organs in general including pituitary and adrenals, and how they communicate to the ovaries especially when under stress.

How I have learned this information began with typing into google "hormones and epilepsy", then after I got some interesting results I researched more on "left temporal lobe epilepsy and PCOS" and "endocrine aspects of epilepsy".

Right this moment I probably won't be able to find the exact articles which I learned best from, but a few studies I can now source off the top about the relationship between hormones, stress, and brain function are:

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https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaneurology/article-abstract/585198

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2818554/

https://practicalneurology.com/articles/2015-july-aug/epilepsy-essentials-reproductive-endocrine-dysfunction-in-women-with-epilepsy

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http://neuroendocrinology.org/PDF/alanjacobsmd_psychoneuroendocine%201.pdf

http://neuroendocrinology.org/PDF/alanjacobsmd_psychoneuroendocrine%202.pdf

http://neuroendocrinology.org/PDF/alanjacobsmd_psychoneuroendocrine3.pdf

http://neuroendocrinology.org/medical-professionals.html

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https://www.heart-health-guide.com/increase-progesterone.html

http://emorymedicinemagazine.emory.edu/issues/2013/spring/features/the-healing-hormone/index.html

I did...by divorcing her! She got her sex drive back after that.

The Hormone Cure is pretty good. Start there.

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Important links for those in a deadbedroom:

• Low Sexual Desire
  
• Communication About Sex, note the link on communicating your kinks - a LL partner may feel that wanting frequent sex is kinky.
  
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  DeadBedrooms suggested reading:
  
  
• The "DeadBedrooms One-Size-Fits-All Standard Flowchart"
  
  
• Come As You Are
  
  
• Mating in Captivity
  
  
• The Hormone Cure
  
  
• Intimacy and Desire
  
  
• Books from the Gottman Institute
  
  
• What Happened When I Had Sex Everyday For a Year
  
  
• The Five Love Languages
  
  
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