The Little Book of HRT: Your essential guide to hormones and menopause
By (Author) Dr Ellie Cannon
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Green Tree
6th January 2026
United Kingdom
General
Non Fiction
Personal and public health / health education
Self-help, personal development and practical advice
Paperback
224
Width 129mm, Height 198mm
The go-to manual for anybody considering starting HRT and navigating the perimenopause journey
Most GP visits are 10-15 minutes long never enough time for your doctor to take you through all the ins and outs of hormone replacement therapy. Written by Dr Ellie Cannon, a practising GP specialising in womens health, this easy-to-read guide condenses everything doctors wish they had time to tell you.
With the amount of conflicting information on menopause, navigating this journey can be overwhelming. Its been framed in some quarters as the panacea the more hormones you take, the better youll feel. But there are also a lot of GPs concerned that women are being over-promised a positive menopause.
Dr Ellie is here to redress the balance: in support of HRT but sensible about the pros and cons of the treatment. With her level-headed and impartial approach, she doesnt ask you to jump on the HRT bandwagon, but gives you clear, digestible advice and information as you start your research during perimenopause. Getting to the crux of HRT, this is your personal GP consultation from start to finish with all your questions finally answered.
This book is basically the consultation on HRT I would give my patients if I had all the time in the world. Filled with no-nonsense, down-to-earth advice that will help women make the best decisions about their personal menopausal journey, and written in an easily digestible form. I wish I could put it on a prescription! -- Dr Dawn Harper
This is a really important book. With all the confusion over HRT in recent years, it has never been more important for women to have a truly balanced, evidence-based reference. It's their bodies and they deserve to be able to make truly informed decisions. This book provides exactly that. Somehow Ellie has managed to translate all the jargon and cut through the noise. -- Dr Sarah Jarvis MBE
At last! A comprehensive but clear, easy-to-follow, plain-speaking, jargon-free guide to the menopause and HRT. Everything women AND MEN need to know with none of the hype, pseudoscience or over-medicalisation so rampant at the current time. Dr Ellie Cannon nails it. -- Dr Hilary Jones MBE
I wish all my patients thinking about HRT would read this, and Id have copies for lending in the surgery. -- Dr Rosemary Leonard
Dr Ellie Cannon has been an NHS GP in North London since 2008 and provides holistic primary care with a focus on womens health. She is the resident GP columnist for the Mail on Sunday and Mailonline and frequently appears as the on-screen GP for ITVs This Morning, BBC Breakfast and Jeremy Vine. She can regularly be heard on the radio for LBC, BBC World Service, Radio 4s Womans Hour and Times Radio. @Dr_Ellie