As seen on Good Morning America, ELIZABETH PLOURDE, C.L.S., M.A., is a licensed Clinical Laboratory Scientist, with a B.S. in Biological Science, an M.A. in Psychology, and currently completing her Ph.D., has spent the past decade working in cutting-edge medical research laboratories. Her research into the "standard medical practices" offered to women today, and the ability to convey a new level of understanding for women's health care in the 21st century, plus her own personal experience with a hysterectomy, led her to write, Your Guide to Hysterectomy, Ovary Removal, & Hormone Replacement: What All Women Need to Know. While dispelling many myths in her book, she discusses how sexual hormones influence the entire body and preserve every woman's life-long vibrant health; how your body has its own built-in anti-oxidants and anti-depressants; why today's "standard medical practices" of tubal ligations, hysterectomies, and ovary removal can set women up for future sexual dysfunction, heart disease, osteoporosis, depression, fibromyalgia, and bowel and bladder dysfunctions; insights into the perplexing decisions regarding HRT and enjoy smoother sailing in your relationships, as both women and their loved ones learn that there are answers for the imbalanced or insufficient hormones,  which can alter women's capacity to function in the world.