The Blessings of the Curse

About the Book

Encouraging healthy menstruating women and even teenage girls to do away with their normal menstrual cycles by dosing themselves more or less nonstop with hormones (a multi-billion-dollar-per-year industry) is, in a word, reckless. What every woman and her doctor MUST know about the actual benefits of the normal menstrual cycle-naturally lowered blood pressure, reduced risk of heart attacks and strokes, healthy bones, rhythmic stimulation of sexual desire and creativity-and about the potential hazards of menstrual suppression (heart attacks, strokes, cervical cancer, osteoporosis, depressed libido) deserves a voice. I am determined that it will have one.
-Susan Rako, M.D.

About the Author

Susan Rako, M.D., a well respected Boston psychiatrist in active practice, is the acclaimed author of The Hormone of Desire: The Truth About Testosterone, Sexuality, and Menopause and of the memoir, That?s How the Light Gets In. Founder of the educational nonprofit, Women?s Health On Alert (WHOA), Dr. Rako is an internationally recognized authority in the field of women?s hormonal health. www.susanrako.com