FEMALE HORMONE REPLACEMENT

The first article is on HRT, what every woman should be on from the beginning of menopause to the end of life. Unlike vitamins they have benefits both for the quality of life and its duration. A reasonable estimate of life extension would be between 2 and 5 years. The following articles provide additional evidence. Esterified estrogen + progesterone results in:

Journals DECREASED: Alzheimer’s 83%, Heart attacks 32% Coronary Heart Disease 50%

Colorectal Cancer 29% Breast Cancer 0% Thrombosis 8% Osteoporosis Fractures 90%

Other significant positive effects include firmer skin, greater libido, improved cognitive functions, increased self-esteem and a feeling of well-being.

Unfortuantely, most studies are on the widely used HRT, Prempro, has quite different results, and has been used by Big PhARMA to reverse the once come usage of HRT (about 1/3^rd of women past the age of 50). READ COMMENTARY AT BOTTOM OF PAGE. please.

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Medical textbooks and Big PhARMA

A reading of Goodman & Gilman, their current (11^th Ed.) Pharmacology text on HRT; it was void of the issues surrounding WHI as far as limits on its findings due to Prempro and in particular the effect of MPA on causing various health issues, the positive effects of progesterone, that MPA is distinguished from progesterone. It explained estrogen’s positive effect upon preventing osteoporosis, and estrogen's failure to ad significiant bone mass (thus necessitating the use of bisphosphonates), and the authors added the cautionary statement “the majority of fractures in postmenopausal period occur in women without a prior history of osteoporosis” at 1553. Given the overall material in this section, it must be read as opposing the use of HRT or estrogen for preventing the various medical conditions, and totally ignoring the fact that esterified estrogen and progesterone ought to be taken by all women starting at the beginning of menopause and continued thereafter.

I can only conclude that those who write the chapters is this and other pharmacology textbooks are opinion makers in their field who have a relationship with Big PhARMA--a topic which I have repeated broached in despairing over the destruction of medical science. Conditions are much different that when I bought my first copy of Goodman & Gilman in 1987, and they won’t change until we have a government that does not depend on big businesses for election funding and corporate media endorsements.

Hormones work, this site is about setting the record right. There are two very different in effects HRTs, learn about which you should be taking, and why there is a very unfortunate manipulation of medical opinion. A number of researches have spoke out, but they don't have the ability to shape opinion, Big PhARMA does.

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