Are you vigilant, anxious and find it hard to relax? Do you tend to have tension headaches and easily catch infections? Do you have aches and pains, PMS, asthma and weight gain and can never get enough sleep? Are you a high-achieving woman who goes, goes, goes, until you collapse into a state of profound exhaustion? Being 'so stressed' has to be the most common description for a woman today - no matter your age or marital status, whether you have a career or work from home. Stress is the gift of modern life that keeps on giving because, even after you've got through a stressful day or week, the effects on your body and mind linger, whether you're aware of them or not. And they can build up and make you unwell - to cause chronic ailments and even premature ageing - unless you do something to stop them. And that's where this landmark book can help. Doctors McClellan and Hamilton reveal what stress is doing to every cell in your body, how it disrupts the intricate balance of your body's systems and, most importantly, what you can do to restore your health and prevent yourself from getting ill. They have developed four groundbreaking stress types, each with unique patterns of potential illness and disease, that you can use to identify the ways stress is affecting your body and mind and even prevent the life-threatening illnesses it causes. Their cutting-edge findings make essential reading for women of all ages, and couldn't be timelier. This very important book will enable women everywhere to make lifestyle choices that will change - and possibly save - their lives.

Stephanie McClellan and Beth Hamilton are partners in a thriving, innovative practice specializing in Gynecology and women's health based in Newport Beach, California.