Newly revised and updated for this fourth edition, this groundbreaking book has inspired more than a million women with a dramatically new vision of midlife--and will continue to do so for generations to come. Dr. Northrup draws on the current research and medical advances in women's health, including: up-to-date information on hormone testing and hormone therapy, with new options and new research, a whole new take on losing weight and training your mind to release extra pounds, new insights on the relationship between thyroid, Hashimoto's Disease, and Epstein Bar Syndrome, new, less invasive and more effective fibroid treatments, which supplements are better than botox for keeping skin looking youthful, how taking the supplement Pueraria mirifica can optimize many aspects of midlife health and wellness, why older women don't need the HPV vaccine. Dr. Christiane Northrup shows that women can make menopause a time of personal empowerment--emerging wiser, healthier, and stronger in both mind and body than ever before. -- adapted from back cover.