Dr. Trevor Cates - Natural Beauty Reset: The 7-Day Program to Harmonize Hormones and Restore Radiance

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PRAISE FOR

Natural Beauty Reset

This book is essential reading for any woman trying to navigate the choppy waters of healthy living. Hormonal health is the key to a happy and healthy life and this book helps make sense of how to bring things into harmony.

Pedram Shojai, OMD, New York Times bestselling author of The Urban Monk

If you want to feel better inside and out, start with this book! Dr. Cates is an empathetic, expert guide through the delicate complexities of womens hormones and beliefs around beautyyou will learn something new.

JJ Virgin, New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet

Want to look and feel youthful, radiant, and gorgeous? With Dr. Cates as your guide, you can discover how to transform yourself from the inside out. In this book, shell guide you to becoming the beautiful, confident, happy woman you want to be.

Dr. Kellyann Petrucci New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Kellyanns Bone Broth Diet

Dr. Cates has been my trusted source for skincare for many years. Her new book will help people reclaim their beauty and get healthy along the way!

Alan Christianson, NMD, New York Times bestselling author of the Thyroid Reset Diet

Health and beauty are deeply connected, and Natural Beauty Reset encourages beauty by prioritizing physical, mental, and emotional health. At a time when there are so many conflicting messages around womens health, hormones, and happiness, Dr. Catess knowledgeable guide is a truly refreshing read!

Izabella Wentz, pharmacist and New York Times bestselling author of Hashimotos Thyroiditis

If you care about your health, your beauty, and your overall quality of life, you must read my favorite book of 2022, Natural Beauty Reset. As an integrative physician and womens hormone expert, I know what it takes for women to optimize their health, so I enthusiastically recommend this book, as it addresses the major topics related to hormonal balance, blending science with great practical advice, both holistic and delicious!

Dr. Felice Gersh, MD, board certified in OB/GYN and Integrative Medicine

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I dedicate this book to the sisters in my life. This includes those who are biological as well as the sisters who are part of my community, and that includesyou. Remember, youllalwaysbe beautiful!

CONTENTS

Being healthy, beautiful, and radiant is as much an inside-out process as it is an outside-in one. It is a balance between what you put inside your body, what touches your body on the outside, and your overall quality of lifeachieving optimal health is a holistic process. Among many other things, your health will determine how you age and how you look as you age, which is why I love the inherent and learned wisdom of Dr. Trevor Cates in the pages that follow. Her approach goes far beyond how to get glowing skin; it helps the reader understand how this glow comes from an overall sense of balance, and provides them with the tools and knowledge to achieve this. It helps them understand their own bodies, enabling them to look and feel their best.

An incredible piece of the puzzle is certainly our nutrition plan. As a physician for over twenty-five years, I have found that women of all ages, and especially around menopause, do better when we change up our eating habits throughout the year. We do have seasons for a reason. In Natural Beauty Reset, Dr. Cates includes nutrition plans for fall, winter, spring, and summer. I appreciate this strategy. It reminds us, every season, to adjust to our environment, and incorporate seasonal healing foods and recipes to support our immune system, hormonal balance, mood, memory, and skin. Tuning our bodies to the shifting seasons in this way helps us reconnect not only with our environment, but with our own bodies. It gives us a sense of well-being and natural radiance that you just cant achieve with skincare alone.

I love the line from the Broadway musical Annie: Youre never fully dressed without a smile. When we think about beauty, isnt it true that a smile makes a face more beautiful? Joy and happiness bring a genuine smile. In Natural Beauty Reset, with its comprehensive deep dive into the root causes of our physical strugglesfrom external stress to internal hormonal imbalancesDr. Cates acknowledges that we cannot just look beautiful and radiant; we need to feel it.

In my professional experience, I know this to be true: while interventional therapies like stem cells, peptides, and laser treatments have helped make progress in patients feeling more beautiful and healthy, these external solutions account for less than 10% of what it means to actually be healthy. True vitality comes from multiple sources: nourishing our body with the right foods at the right times and the correct proportions, incorporating regular physical activity into our lives, maintaining good relationships, and a careful consideration of what we are putting on our body are all crucial components of our health.

What we apply on our skin is absorbed into our skin and gets into our system; it is all connected. By the time a woman leaves the house in the morning, its estimated she has put over 180 chemicals on her body. Many of these chemicals are hormone disrupting. In fact, we are exposed to a multitude of toxic chemicals before we are even born. A study performed in 2004 looked at toxic chemicals found in newborn babies umbilical cord blood. Two hundred eighty-seven external chemicals were identified in the blood, 208 of which were known to cause birth defects and abnormal development in animal studies, 217 of which were found to be toxic to the brain and nervous system, and 180 of which were known to cause cancer in humans and animals. Pesticides, herbicides, toxic compounds, waste from burning garbage and gasoline, and so many other toxins that we inhale or seep into our skin daily affect our health and can be at the core of many of the hormone imbalances we struggle with. Toxic exposures and hormone disruptors are a significant and underappreciated cause of health problems, especially considering the hundreds of thousands of chemicals in circulation.