Leslie Carol Botha
Leslie Carol Botha, Women's Health Educator, author, publisher, and broadcast journalist is an internationally recognized expert on women’s hormonal health. Her work emphasizes the significance of the hormone cycle and its profound relationship to women’s psyche. Botha’s 30 years of research demonstrates how hormone changes/fluctuations in the menstrual cycle affect women’s physical, mental and emotional well being.
Botha is a member of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research, and an advisory board member for the Cycles Research Institute.
In 2006, Botha received the Edward R. Dewey Award for her pioneering research on how women’s hormonal fluctuations affect their behaviors. The award was bequeathed by the Foundation for the Study of Cycles.
Her research is also featured in a new book titled: The World According to Cycles- How Recurring Forces Can Predict the Future and Change Your Life by Samuel A. Schreiner, Jr., published by Skyhorse Publishing, New York City. Schreiner has noted that Botha is “….one of the most prominent twenty-first century cycle thinkers.”
Currently Botha and her co-author Sandra H. Chevalier-Batik are developing a health curriculum for adolescents titled Girl’s Empowered – Boy’s Empowered; A Comprehensive Curriculum on Adolescent Health. The curriculum focuses on menstrual health education within an educational social, political and historical context of women’s worth, value and rights.
Botha and Batik have just released their e-book titled:Understanding Your Mind, Mood and Hormone Cycle; the first in a series on menstrual health education.
Over the past three years, Botha has been heavily involved and dedicated in using the media to share information with the public about the potential dangers of the HPV vaccines. She is a member of TruthAboutGardasil.org and is one of six women who presented research and data to the FDA in March of 2010 on the alarming statistics of Gardasil and Cervarix deaths, injuries and harm in comparison to other vaccines. She is also the Vice President of Public Relations for S.A.N.E. Vax, Inc. an organization dedicated to educating the public about the safety and efficacy of vaccinations.
