附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-267) and index.
Cover Page -- Other Books -- The Thyroid Sourcebook for Women -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword to the First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Woman's Disease -- 1 All About Eve-and the Thyroid Gland -- What Is a Thyroid? -- Tracing Thyroid Disease in Your Family -- The Menstrual Cycle -- The Breast Connection -- 2 Signs of Trouble: It Is Not All in Your Head -- Cold Women: The Hypoalphabet Soup -- What Causes Hypothyroidism? -- Fast Women: The Hyperalphabet Soup -- The Emotional Effects of Hyperthyroidism -- What Causes Hyperthyroidism? -- 3 Stress, Fatigue, and Depression: Do They Collide with Your Thyroid? -- Women, Stress, and Thyroid Disease -- Fatigue -- Abnormal Fatigue: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) -- Depression and Thyroid Disease -- 4 Thyroid Disease and the Menstrual Cycle -- The Moon Cycle -- PMS and Thyroid Disorders -- 5 Fertility, Pregnancy, and the Thyroid -- Getting Pregnant -- Being Pregnant -- After the Baby Is Born -- Your Baby's Thyroid -- 6 Thyroid Disease and Menopause -- Natural Menopause -- Surgical Menopause or Premature Menopause -- HRT, Menopause, and Thyroid Disease -- Osteoporosis -- Staying Alert About Heart Disease -- 7 Women and Thyroid Eye Disease -- What Is Thyroid Eye Disease? -- Smoking and TED -- Battling the Bulge: Treating TED -- Dry Eye Syndrome -- 8 The Weight and Diet Connection -- Thyroid Disease and Obesity -- Lowering Fat and Healthy Eating -- The Hypothyroid Diet -- Putting It All Together -- The Hyperthyroid Diet -- Iodine Foods and the Thyroid -- 9 Autoimmune Thyroid Disease -- What Is an Autoimmune Disorder? -- Hashimoto's Disease -- Graves' Disease -- Other Autoimmune Disorders -- 10 Thyroid Lumps and Thyroid Cancer -- Thyroid Self-Exam (TSE) -- Investigating a Thyroid Nodule -- Who Gets Thyroid Cancer? -- Types of Thyroid Cancer -- General Treatment for Thyroid Cancer.
11 Thyroid Tests, Treatments, and Self-Care -- What the Doctor Orders -- When Your Doctor Tells You to Take a Pill -- Self-Healing and Complementary Therapies -- Appendix A: Thyroid Links on the Web -- Appendix B: Links for Other Conditions Related to Thyroid Disease -- Bibliography -- Index.
