"What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause," and gallstones

STLtoday - Entertainment - Books: "Dr. John Lee has revised and updated his popular book, 'What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause,' which originally was published in 1996. Lee, like Gittleman, is a proponent of balancing fluctuating hormones at menopause with natural hormones, which are known as bioidentical hormones. When Lee's book first came out, hormone replacement therapy was said to help protect menopausal women from heart disease, Alzheimer's and a host of other serious conditions. Now we know that 'the synthetic hormone cocktails increase the risk of heart disease, stroke, breast cancer and gallbladder disease,' Lee writes. "