The Hormone Reset Diet: Heal Your Metabolism to Lose Up to 15 Pounds in 21 Days

Gynecologist Gottfried (The Hormone Cure) specializes in integrative, functional medicine that helps women balance their hormones in an effort to combat food addiction, reduce stress and inflammation, and lose weight. The book’s nutritional prescriptions consist of seven three-day food-elimination regimens. Each area targeted for elimination corresponds to a different hormone: meat and alcohol (estrogen), sugar (insulin), fruit (leptin), caffeine (cortisol), grain (thyroid), dairy (growth hormone), and synthetic toxins (testosterone). The chapters include self-assessment checklists, information on various hormones’ effects on metabolism, food and supplements lists, and a sample one-day menu. A closing section, “Re-entry and Beyond,” offers, among other advice, the author’s “personal food code” and a set of rules for maintaining a trigger-free, hormone-healthy way of life. Gottfried’s chatty, encouraging, woman-to-woman tone makes a very challenging diet plan seem quite doable, as does an appealing layout with boxes, illustrations, and tables. This diet guide seems certain to hit bestseller lists. [em]Agent: Celeste Fine, Sterling Lord Literistic. (Mar.) [/em]