The Female Factor: Making women’s health count – and what it means for you

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While her first two books focused on healthy eating, exercise and recipes, The Female Factor sees her delving deeper into women’s health. And so, for the past three years (in between COVID shifts at the hospital), I’ve dedicated most of my time to researching how to help women live healthier, happier lives. And The Female Factor was born.

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Like all doctors working the NHS, she was pitched headlong into caring for seriously ill Covid patients, at a time when very little was known about this new disease. In The Female Factor, she looks at all aspects of women’s health, saying that she wants to expand the definition of ‘female health’ from conditions that affect only our reproductive organs to the study of all aspects of health and disease, with the recognition that presentation, diagnosis, treatment and prevention may be different between the sexes. I had to take on a couple of nursing shifts in intensive care – I’m not a trained nurse but you just had to do what was asked of you because there weren’t enough nurses.”

Dr Hazel’s first book provides the perfect platform for her to bridge the gap between mainstream medicine and nutrition to create a whole-body guide to health. It was physically and emotionally exhausting work and she has since decided to step away from her work as a doctor for the time being to concentrate on the Food Medic. She says that the information around this is only beginning to emerge but is very important for women’s healthcare. Our hormones don’t just dictate our reproductive health but influence everything from our sleep, our bones, to our heart health.” Are certain vitamin and mineral requirements particularly important at certain points of women's lives?

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In the introduction to the books, she writes “I realised that our current model of male-centric medicine meant that women were understudied, underdiagnosed and undertreated. She points out that most research has been done on male bodies, with the presumption that women were just small men.The sale of customised goods or perishable goods, sealed audio or video recordings, or software, which has been opened. Applicability of cancellation rights: Legal rights of cancellation under the Distance Selling Regulations available for UK or EU consumers do not apply to certain products and services. While nutrition remains her biggest passion, she realised that there was an unmet need for how women are treated in within medicine and healthcare. The male body has always been the default body in clinical medicine, making the assumption that women are just smaller versions of men. This could not be more wrong. Hazel Wallace (author), Lizzie Mayson (photographer (expression)), Food medic (associated with work)

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There’s lots of sound practical advice about nutrition and healthy eating for different life stages as well, of course, as her popular recipes. This bold, comprehensive guide to understanding women's health shakes up the narrative for women of all ages. The Female Factor provides methods to protect and maximise your health in positive, affirming steps. For those who are familiar with my work, and previous books, you might be thinking why this book and why now? verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ I, like everyone else, didn’t know what to expect. Overnight we were all turned into Covid teams – we were all thrown into it together, consultants and graduates, we were all the same.” Nutrition will always be Dr Hazel’s biggest passion, but as a woman, and as a doctor to many women, she wanted to expand on the work she does, especially when she discovered there was an unmet need within medicine and healthcare. Realising that our current model of male- centric medicine meant that women were understudied, under-diagnosed, misdiagnosed and under-treated, she soon knew there was an unmet need here and wanted to find some answers.