It's Not You, It's Your Hormones!

Nicki Williams, DipION, mBANT, CNHC, is a qualified Nutritional Therapist, speaker and founder of Happy Hormones for Life, helping women over 40 to get back to their absolute best – slimmer, energized, more productive and in full control of their hormones. After failing to find any medical help for her symptoms of exhaustion, weight gain and hormone issues in her early 40s, she discovered it was her hormones that were at fault and that she could turn things around using diet, lifestyle and natural supplements. She went on to qualify as a Nutritional Therapist at the renowned Institute of Optimum Nutrition (ION), making hormones her speciality. She now helps women all over the world with her online programmes, workshops and corporate, individual and group coaching. In her one-to-one work, she uses state-of-the-art comprehensive hormone (and other) testing and Functional Medicine principles to identify the root cause of any imbalance and provide fully personalized programmes for faster targeted results.

Introduction
A quick guide to getting the most out of this book
Part 1: Here’s the thing about hormones
Chapter 1: Hormones 101 – what are they and why do they aff ect us so much? Chapter 2: Take the quiz – find out if you have a hormone imbalance
Chapter 3: Meet your Feisty 4
Part 2: Why your hormones need help
Chapter 4: The big dietary and lifestyle saboteurs
Chapter 5: Ditch the diet – why dieting and extreme exercise is not working for you any more
Chapter 6: Your liver and gut – why they are important
Part 3: Your hormone-balancing plan
Chapter 7: The Happy Hormone Code – your simple four-step nutrition and lifestyle solution
Step 1 - Eat
Step 2 - Rest
Step 3 - Cleanse
Step 4 - Move
Chapter 8: Mindset – get your head sorted
Chapter 9: Keeping it going
Part 4: Beyond diet and lifestyle
Chapter 10: Get yourself tested
Chapter 11: How supplements can help
Chapter 12: Hormone Replacement Therapy – the low-down
A final word
Resources: Recipes; Low GL Guide; The Happy Hormone Plate; Home Thyroid Test; The Happy Hormones Manifesto; Website and book recommendations
References
Index