How Your Doctor is Slowly Killing You: A Woman’s Health Survival Guide
Dr. Angela DeRosa, DO, MBA, CPE
Author Bio
Dr. Angela DeRosa, DO, MBA, CPE, is a dynamic professional on a mission to change the face of Women’s Health and Wellness. As a respected, internationally recognized authority on women’s hormonal health, Dr. DeRosa understands the range of health issues women face leading up to and during menopause. She experienced early menopause at age 35, with symptoms beginning in her mid-twenties, while she was attending medical school. In her quest to find out what was happening to her, it became clear that understanding, research and treatment for this critical phase of women’s health was woefully inadequate.
Dr. DeRosa worked for Proctor & Gamble as a medical expert to help launch osteoporosis treatments and testosterone replacement for women. During her years with the pharmaceutical division, she saw firsthand how women’s ability to get proper medical care and treatment is thwarted due to politics, gender bias and poorly trained physicians. Her mission is to teach women about what’s happening to them physically, how they can obtain proper treatment, and to change the paradigm of medicine so women everywhere can live healthier and happier lives.
Dr. DeRosa has more than 20 years’ experience in the medical industry, both on the pharmaceutical side and in clinical practice. She is the founder of DeRosa Medical, with offices in Scottsdale, Glendale, Chandler, and Sedona, Arizona. Patients come to see Dr. DeRosa from as far as Germany, Peru, Mexico, Hawaii, Alaska and many of the 48 contiguous states.
Description
How Your Doctor Is Slowly Killing You: A Woman’s Survival Guide teaches women and medical professionals how to recognize the symptoms of hormone deficiencies, understand treatment options and how bio-identical HRT can revitalize health and improve quality of life. No complex medical terms, no jargon, just straight talk about what women need to know, why they must take control and advocate for their health, plus the stories of women whose lives have been changed by Dr. DeRosa through proper diagnosis and treatment of hormone deficiencies using bio-identical HRT.
Dr. DeRosa debunks many of the popular myths about menopause and HRT. She’s not afraid to confront misinformation head on, exposing how Big Pharma, the government, the FDA and the medical establishment are behind the ongoing push to suppress bio-identical HRT, and the reason is MONEY, and lots of it.
Book excerpt
Rattling Cages and Challenging Convention
You’re probably wondering why I’ve decided to write a book called “How Your Doctor is Slowly Killing You: A Woman’s Health Survival Guide,” that’s guaranteed to anger a large portion of the medical community. Simple. As a woman and a physician, I’m angry. Hormone deficiencies are not limited to the realm of the menopausal, and there is no doubt in my mind we’re all in a fight for our lives.
My personal and professional journey has proven time and again that women are getting bad information about hormones and hormone replacement therapy from their doctors, from the media and from the government, and it’s causing a health epidemic. It’s not because other doctors are sinister or incompetent – although I could certainly name more than a few of both types. Most doctors are simply misinformed. Unfortunately there are others jumping into hormone replacement therapy without understanding how hormones really work in the body, and they’re making women (and men) sicker.
The most common thing I hear from patients in my growing practice is “Why have my other doctors missed this?” Every day there are women crying in my office because they’re so grateful that a doctor is really listening to them, instead of telling they’re “stressed out” or “depressed” and pushing prescriptions designed to treat symptoms, and not the cause. It’s gratifying to be able to reassure these women that they’re not crazy or misunderstood, and that we have the knowledge and the tools to help them. It’s called bio-identical hormone replacement therapy, BHRT.