The Menopause Diet Daily Journal
Larrian Gillespie received her medical degree from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine and became the first woman to graduate from their prestigious Urology program, an accomplishment that earned her the featured cover story in Parade Magazine.Over the next fifteen years, as a private practitioner, she brought about public awareness of an overlooked medical condition, interstitial cystitis, which resulted in three pharmaceutical patents from her pioneering research.Her book, You Dont Have to Live With Cystitis has been a "Top Ten Best Seller" on womens health according to the New York Review of Books Readers Catalog, 1999.A frequent lecturer at international medical meetings, Larrian taught her colleagues how to diagnose and treat this "incurable" condition, through her more than 30 scientific articles and chapters in medical textbooks.With an ability to translate "doctor speak" into terms anyone can understand, Larrian has been featured in over 50 magazine stories and numerous television shows, including Good Morning America and CNN. She has served on the medical advisory board of SHAPE Magazine and been a frequent source for numerous other publications.Changing careers in 1995, Larrian has focused on the issues of womens health as they relate to diet. Her interest in cooking and nutrition, nourished by courses at Londons Cordon Bleu and La Varenne in Paris, has resulted in her current books, "The Menopause Diet" and "The Menopause Diet Mini Meal Cookbook," which are destined to join her other book in becoming "Best Sellers."