Cooking for Hormone Balance audiobook

This book is a wonderful source for learning about hormone problems and working to naturally balance them. It covers adrenal health, low progesterone, estrogen dominance, high testosterone/androgen dominance/PCOS, low thyroid (including Hashimoto's), and insulin resistance. There are many great pointers for the vast array of hormones discussed. Each hormone imbalance has a corresponding diet to follow and the recipes are included for all. The only thing I didn't love about this book was that many of the recipes did not appeal to me. Around slightly less than half had corresponding pictures, the ingredient lists were quite long, and some recipes contained hard to find or expensive ingredients.

This book is not for amateurs! I have done hours upon hours of research and listened to podcasts from doctors all over the world on the topics of preventative health, gut healing, hormone balancing, etc.; this book does a great job of consolidating most of the consistent messages and reoccurring themes that I have found across functional/integrative/food-is-medicine platforms. The author does a great job laying out the healing path with concrete steps to follow. There is a TON of good information in here, which makes up the first half of the book. The recipes make up the second half, and I believe her intentions with the recipes were to provide readers some tools to use in the journey. Personally I love the recipes, but I would suggest integrating them with a few other simpler-but-still-compliant recipes found on your own. Prep work on this plan is critical for success.With that said, I am at the point in my health journey that this book does not overwhelm me. I’m a health food nut and obsessed with gut health. I am convinced this will be the way of medicine in the future, but our general population is not there yet (especially in the US). If you are going into this book blindly in regards to hormones, gut health, AIP, elimination diets, blood sugar control, food intolerances, supplements, etc., this may be too intense for you. If you have a bit of background, you will find lots of useful information in here.

Lots of helpful information, but it felt like an overload. There is a sample menu, but no shopping list and 4 or more recommended paths depending on your unique situation. Definitely not a place for diet beginners. We tried most of the recipes but I couldn't bring myself to eat a handful of them. I thought I had done some difficult diets/fasts before but this one was too much for me. All of the food felt alien, i spent hours on our food daily, and our diet wasn't simple before this. There were lots of modifications to make and I usually gave up and ate salad. I hate salad. I would reccomend this cookbook if you have been diagnosed with a hormone disorder or an auto-immune disease, and need some serious answers to heal yourself with. The process will take months.

If you need to understand the power of food has on your overall health and energy levels and determining how to balance your hormones simply by making good choices to support your bodies changes- this is the book. Magdalena has done a great job online and now, with this book to inspire a practical and tangible way to make a shift in better direction. I really enjoyed the recipes and learned how my body is functioning and an be thrown into dysfunction.

Really great recipes. The recipes incorporate the "let food be thy medicine" philosophy. Many incorporate both culinary and medicinal herbs. I also really like that her recipes use a variety of different gluten free flours, unlike some books that only use one or two types of flour for all the recipes

This is an outstanding book on understanding how the food we eat is at the core of most of our health issues. It has been incredibly helpful to me in dealing with peri-menopause, Hashimoto's, and especially Candida.But all that aside, Magdadena's eclectic tastes and diverse travels have brought together some of the most interesting, delicious, and healthy ingredient combinations I've found.

This book is full of realistic recipes and well researched information. I borrowed it from the library but now plan to purchase my own copy. The only thing keeping it from 5 stars is that around 25% of the recipes seem too involved for me or would require ingredients that would need to be purchased online or from specialty stores.

Great info but many recipes are labor intensive to the point of infeasible. As a temporary methodology it may be necessary but no way could I make my own everything all the time. Going to take the overall info but combine with recipes and offerings from local stores.

Good banana bread recipe

Good information, but in many of the recipes I have never heard of the ingredients before.

very interesting

very helpful. helped to identify some deficiencies of my own

I liked the organization of this book, and the recipes that I tried were actually quite good. It is definitely one that I would consider buying.

The proof is in the pudding and I have read it but must cook it!So, it takes a while to incorporate dietary restrictions and inclusions into your life. I applied everything I could remember and hold on to since September 2022. It is now December 2022 & my hormones are absolutely more balanced and what I eat or don’t eat I am extremely conscious of and would certainly say it has changed my life.There were things I was brought to understand that I can eat although I thought I could not as I believed those were the things harming me and I have stuck to many things from this work and it certainly has helped me! I will still reread it again and see what new I can retain and learn to cook. Now honestly I cooked what I was already cooking that she recommended for my types. I just cooked it more often and more deliberately and purposely so. I am due a revisit to this material soon for a recap and further inclusions.