Unleash the power of the female brain : supercharging yours for better health, energy, mood, focus, and sex

Summary: From one of the world's leading experts on how the brain works, this book offers a step-by-step, practical program for women to achieve greater health, energy, and lasting happiness by harnessing the power of the female brain. In this book, the author, a neuropsychiatrist offers insight on the unique characteristics, strengths (intuition, empathy, multitasking, collaboration), vulnerabilities (anxiety, depression, and a tendency to worry), and needs of the female brain. And he explains his practical, prescriptive program targeted specifically for women to help them thrive. In this guide based on research from his clinical practice, the doctor addresses the issues women ask about the most including fertility, pregnancy, menopause, weight, stress, anxiety, insomnia, and relationships.

Record details

ISBN: 9780307888952 :
ISBN: 0307888959 :
Physical Description: print
xxi, 392 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Edition: First paperback edition.
Publisher: New York : Harmony Books, [2013]
Copyright: ©2013

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The female brain unleashed -- Fall in Love With Your Female Brain. Care about your brain more than any other body part ; Boost brain envy. -- Harness the Unique Strengths of the Female Brain. Use your intuition, empathy, collaboration, self-control, and a little worry to give yourself a great advantage ; Recruit your team and make your worries work for you. -- Adopt Amen Clinics' Method for Optimizing the Female Brain. Know your brain, important numbers, and the four circles for ultimate success ; Get assessed. -- Balance Your Hormones to Boost the Female Brain. Balance estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone ; Balance thyroid, cortisol, DHEA, and insulin ; Take the hormone questionnaires and inventory your healthy and unhealthy hormone habits. -- Feed the Female Brain. Flatten your tummy and boost brain reserves by healing your gut and eating brain-healthy superfoods ; Provide therapy for your kitchen. -- Soothe the Female Brain. Put an end to anxiety, worry, depression, and perfectionism ; Kill the ANTs and answer the work's four questions. -- Get Control of the Female Brain. Conquer cravings, weight issues, and addictions ; Embrace your failures. -- ADD and the Female Brain. The hyperactive "boys' condition" that ruins female lives ; Know your focus and energy robbers and boosters. -- Be Beautiful Inside and Out. Stop the negative chatter and make a plan to look and feel amazing ; Get a massage and enjoy a sauna. -- Sex and the Female Brain. Optimize your brain for greater pleasure, deeper relationships, and lasting love ; Be the director of your pleasure. -- Get Your Brain Ready for Babies and Caring for Their Brains Once They're Here. Prepare for pregnancy and unleash the power of your daughters' brains ; Indulge in special time. -- Change Your Female Brain, Change the World. Realize that it's not about you, it is about generations of you ; Create your own genius network. -- Natural supplements to help you unleash the power of your female brain.