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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction: A Woman's Disease | |
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| All About Eve--And the Thyroid Gland | |
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| What Is a Thyroid? | |
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| Tracing Thyroid Disease in Your Family | |
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| Thyroid and Your Menstrual Cycle | |
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| Thyroid and Contraception | |
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| The Breast Connection | |
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| Signs of Trouble: It Is Not All in Your Head | |
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| Fast Women: The Hyperalphabet Soup | |
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| Cold Women: The Hypoalphabet Soup | |
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| Fatigue, Depression, and Thyroid Disease | |
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| Normal Stress and Fatigue | |
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| Abnormal Fatigue: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome | |
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| Depression or Thyroid Disease? | |
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| Fertility, Pregnancy, and the Thyroid | |
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| Getting Pregnant | |
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| Being Pregnant | |
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| After the Baby Is Born | |
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| Your Baby's Thyroid | |
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| Thyroid Disease and Menopause | |
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| Natural Menopause | |
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| Surgical Menopause | |
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| Long-Term Effects of Estrogen Loss: Postmenopausal Symptoms | |
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| Hormone Replacement Therapy and Thyroid Disease | |
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| Other Postmenopausal Concerns | |
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| Women and Thyroid Eye Disease | |
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| What Is Thyroid Eye Disease (TED)? | |
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| Battling the Bulge: Treating TED | |
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| Drying Your Eyes Out | |
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| The Weight and Diet Connection | |
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| Thyroid Disease and Obesity | |
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| Making Changes and Cutting Fat | |
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| Fiber | |
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| "Iodine Foods" and the Thyroid | |
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| The Stress Connection: Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders | |
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| What Is an Autoimmune Disorder? | |
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| Other Stress-Related Disorders | |
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| What Is Stress? | |
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| Thyroid Lumps and Thyroid Cancer | |
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| Investigating a Thyroid Lump | |
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| Thyroid Cancer | |
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| Preventing Thyroid Cancer | |
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| Thyroid Doctors, Tests, and Treatments | |
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| The Right Primary Care Doctor | |
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| When to Get a Second Opinion | |
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| How to Use a Specialist | |
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| What the Doctor Orders | |
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| When Your Doctor Tells You to Take a Pill | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Where to Go for More Information | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |