"Jerilynn Prior can always be trusted to go beyond the surface to what is really happening in women's bodies. She is a true champion in women's health. This book will help you finally understand your body and hormones."
Susan Love MD,
President of the Dr Susan Love Research Foundation
and author of Dr Susan Love's Breast Book
President of the Dr Susan Love Research Foundation
and author of Dr Susan Love's Breast Book
An Introduction
In this revealing work, a medical writer and an internationally-known physician team up to explain the controversy over medicine prescribing estrogen for perimenopausal women in North America, and to detail why progesterone is actually a far more effective, and a far less risk-ridden, approach. Citing long-standing and emerging research, patient vignettes, and personal experience, endocrinologist Jerilynn Prior and writer Susan Baxter tell us how false beliefs on estrogen became entrenched in North American medicine and culture, and why business and politics have played a role in this erroneous thinking.
Like most women in Europe, Prior's patients find progesterone the key to dealing with a life cycle transition that, contrary to Western medicine, these authors do not see as a disease. Challenging medical orthodoxy, this work presents arguments and evidence both women and doctors will find compelling and useful.
Moving Beyond the Estrogen Myth to Understand Perimenopause, Calgary AB
Saturday, February 27, 2010 - 1:30pm - 4:00pm
Moving Beyond the Estrogen Myth to Understand Perimenopause
Confused about perimenopause? Wondering about bio-identical hormones? Looking for accurate information on how to safely and effectively manage hot flashes, heavy flow, sore breast, PMS, weight gain and sleeplessness? Dr. Jerilynn Prior, MD, UBC endocrinologist and author of Estrogen's Storm Season and The Estrogen Errors: Why Progesterone is Better for Women's Health will share her research and answer your questions. Drawing on 40 years of clinical practice specializing in women's reproductive health and her work as Scientific Director of Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research, Dr. Prior will give us the straight goods on what the science actually tells us about perimenopause versus what your doctor may think and believe.
Date: Saturday, February 27th, 2010
Place: Cardel Theatre, 180 Quarry Park Blvd. SE, Calgary (Free Parking)
Time: 1:30 to 4:00 PM
Tickets: $25 each or 2 for $45, sliding scale for those in need
Please bring non perishable item for food bank donation.
The Estrogen Myth in Boston
Thursday, November 4 2009by Jerilynn C. Prior
Thoughts on my 40-year MD graduation visit to Boston Medical Center
Last week I was the guest speaker at “Grand Rounds” (meaning the major, usually weekly, academic lecture) in the department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at my alma mater. This was an important occasion for me personally, because I became a physician at Boston University 40 years ago this year.
