Books about women’s health, hormones, sexuality, menopause, and botanical medicine (a few of my favorites):
Adrenal Thyroid Revolution, Aviva Romm, MD
Botanical Medicine for Women’s Health, Aviva Romm, MD
Come as You Are, Emily Nagoski, PhD
Find Your Menopause Type, Heather Hirsch, MD
Hormone Intelligence, Aviva Romm, MD
Menopause Bootcamp, Suzanne Gilberg-Lenz, MD
Radiant Rebellion: Reclaim Aging, Practice Joy, and Raise a Little Hell, Karen Walrond
The Menopause Brain, Lisa Mosconi, PhD
Whole Detox, Deanna Minich, PhD
Whole Woman Health, Carrie Levine, CNM
XX Brain, Lisa Mosconi, PhD
You are Not Broken, Kelly Casperson, MD
Websites I recommend:
Consumer Lab
A paid subscription to access independent evaluations of the quality of vitamin and supplement brands, including articles about the evidence for use and medical references.
Dirty Dozen & Clean 15
The EWG annual guide to pesticides on produce and what fruit/vegetables are most important to buy organic.
EWG (Environmental Work Group)
An independent evaluation of ingredients of foods, personal care products, and household cleaning products, with safety ratings. (See EWG Healthy Living mobile app or website.)
NIH Office of Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets
A collection of fact sheets and resources on supplements from the National Institutes of Health.
Podcasts I recommend:
On Health, Aviva Romm, midwife & MD
Functional medicine approach to women’s health.
Health by Heather Hirsch, MD
Conventional medicine approach to hormone therapy by a menopause specialist.
You are Not Broken, Kelly Casperson, MD
Women’s sexuality by a female urologist.
Mobile apps I recommend:
Environmental safety
EWG Healthy Living
Independent evaluation of the safety of personal care products, cleaning products, and foods by the Environmental Work Group (free)
Menopause & hormone therapy
balance by Newson Health, a menopause app for tracking symptoms, information, and guidance on hormone therapy (free basic app, paid subscription for balance+)
Evia: hypnotherapy for menopausal symptom management (paid subscription, free trial)
Uterinekind, symptom tracking for women with bleeding, pelvic pain, fibroids, and endometriosis (free)
Chronic pain, hypnosis, sleep, anxiety, stress, meditation, yoga, Pilates
Calm: sleep, stress & anxiety, mindfulness (paid subscription, free trial)
Curable: chronic pain using cognitive behavioral therapy (paid subscription, free trial)
Insight Timer: sleep, anxiety, and stress using mindfulness, yoga, movement, sound, body scan (free)
Glo: yoga, meditation, Pilates (paid subscription, free trial)
Headspace: meditation and mindfulness tools for stress and mental health support (paid subscription, free trial)
Reveri: self-hypnosis for sleep, stress management, eating intuitively, improving focus, and changing habits (paid subscription, free trial)
