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Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple: The Essential How-to Guide to Symptoms, Dosage, Timing, and More Description: This down-to-earth, easy-to-follow handbook gives women simple steps to find out if they have a hormone imbalance. Free of confusing medical terminology, yet filled with practical advice, Hormone Balance Made Simple gives clear, step-by-step guidance for a natural hormone program that's tailored to your individual needs. Now you can learn which hormones are right for you and how to deal with mood swings, hot flashes, night sweats, breast tenderness, irregular bleeding, and other distressing symptoms of menopause and premenopause. Learn how with the help of: * Up-to-date information about symptoms and causes of hormone imbalance * Guidance on how much to take and when to take it * How stress, diet, exercise, sleep and exposure to toxins can affect your hormone balance

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (TM): The Breakthrough Book on Natural Hormone Balance Description: The revolutionary book about Bioidentical Hormone Replacement Therapy. The original book on progesterone cream by John R. Lee M.D., the pioneer in the use of natural hormones, on using natural hormones, diet and exercise to treat menopause symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats and osteoporosis. Extensively revised and updated in 2004.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer: How Hormone Balance Can Help Save Your Life Description: Another pioneering book by John R. Lee, M.D. that really gets to the bottom of why women get breast cancer and how to prevent it. It covers a wide array of topics including how HRT may trigger breast cancer, why doctors use chemo and radiation even though they don't work very well, what causes breast cancer, how to prevent it, and the remarkably preventive benefits of natural hormones-- when used properly.

What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PREmenopause: Premenopause, Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty Description: Real solutions from John R. Lee, M.D. for PMS, fibroids, fibrocystic breasts, weight gain, fatigue, endometriosis, irregular or heavy periods, infertility, miscarriage, and other premenopausal hormone imbalance symptoms, in detail. He also covers the topics of stress, birth control pills, hysterectomy and cancer. Many case histories are included, and Dr. Hanley adds a new dimension to this book by addressing the emotional issues of premenopause symptoms as well as the use of herbs and nutritional supplements to treat symptoms.

Combo Pack: Dr. John Lee's Hormone Balance Made Simple | What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause (TM) | What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Breast Cancer | What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About PREmenopause Price: $47.20 (Retail $55.53-- Save 15%)

The Monitoring of C-Reactive Protein (CRP)

C-reactive protein (CRP) is an acute phase protein (one whose blood concentrations increase or decrease in response to inflammation) produced by the liver.

Elevations or increases are usually of the most significance. Levels of blood CRP can markedly rise in response to widespread inflammation anywhere in the body caused by various conditions or events such as cardiovascular disease, metabolic syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, cancer, and traumas.

There are many applications of CRP testing. It can be employed whenever sudden and serious inflammation is suspected, to evaluate known conditions, or to assess treatment of the inflammatory condition. An advantage over the ESR (erythrocyte sedimentation rate), which was historically used as an inflammation marker, is that an increase or decrease in CRP levels can be detected much sooner than changes in an ESR.

Monitoring CRP levels has been shown to be especially popular and useful for determining the risk of heart disease and evaluating cardiovascular disease that is already present. It is believed that the inflammation process contributes to this condition by damaging the plaque adhered to blood vessel walls, enabling it to break off into the bloodstream. The plaque can then lodge in the smaller vessels of the brain or heart, causing a stroke or heart attack.

Another application of CRP assessment in our patient population is monitoring and/or risk assessment of metabolic syndrome. This condition includes some, if not all of the following: high blood pressure, abdominal obesity, elevated triglycerides and LDL-C, low HDL-C, and an elevated fasting glucose. A linear correlation between a high CRP and these elements of metabolic syndrome has been established: the more signs a patient presents with, the higher the CRP.

CRP is an important part of routine screening for all patients. We have elaborated on a few of its most useful applications. Labrix offers CRP among numerous other tests on our new BloodDrop(TM) menu. Give us a call for more information.