Doctor Available to Address the Tom Cruise/Brooke Shields Controversy

    /24-7PressRelease/ - June 02, 2005 - In an interview this past week, Tom Cruise condemned Brooke Shields for taking antidepressants during her postpartum depression. Dr. Steven Hotze, author of "Hormones, Health, and Happiness" says that in almost all cases, postpartum depression can be treated by balancing a new mother's hormones and without drug intervention.

At the renowned Hotze Health and Wellness Center in Houston, Dr. Hotze and his staff of physicians have found that doing thorough checks of their patients' hormone levels and stabilizing them is much more effective and doesn't put the patient in a dazed drug state.

During pregnancy, the placenta produces massive quantities of progestertone-ten to twenty times the normal amount produced in a woman's body. After the baby is born, the woman's progesterone levels fail precipitously, leading to a state of estrogen dominance and functional hypothyroidism. Postpartum depression im most cases, says Hotze, can be treated by taking natural bioidentical proesterone.

"You don't have to go to the extreme measure of becoming addicted to anti-depressants....there are natural safe alternatives, and I'd love for Brooke Shields to have an opportunity to go through our program and not have to go through weaning herself off of Paxil," Hotze said.

Hotze is available for interviews this week and will be in New York on Friday/Saturday.

For more information on Dr. Hotze, go to http://www.hotzehwc.com.

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