Re: Hormone Replacement Therapy?NADH and more......

July 7, 2001

Great article very interesting, I don't believe in HRT at all, and I

find it interesting that my mom is 70 years old and told me not only

has she never had PMS(doesn't know what it is) but never had a hot

flash or any of that stuff, she looks great and is in good health and

never took a hormone in her life, always ate fairly healthy and never

smoked, drank, or took any prescription drugs, at least not for a

legnth of time.

I also find it interesting because I on the other hand, well, I

started fairly young, took birth control pills at 14 smoked for

years, partied often, ate poorly as a teen and young adult and yet

despite all this at the age of 33 when I cleaned up my life and

started eating well, dieting etc..was the picture of health, till I

tipped the scales and exposed my recovering body with those toxic

bags of silicone.

I often wonder if the reason I got sick was a combination of past

lifestyle, exposures to toxins, and then the final straw of course,

the implants.

I am doing better now, so much so in fact that I am able to work

out, work full time, enjoy an active life, and in fact work 12 hour

shifts and all, this improvement in my health has been slow, but I am

now 7 months post explant and the improvements are amazing.

I am taking the NADH and of all the supplements I have taken this one

is by far the most incredible one ever. THere is no doubt in my mind

that this supplement truely works and is helping my energy levels and

my brain function. I highly highly recomend it to all the women in

this group.

Love and hugs,

In @y..., " Patty " <faussettdp@m...> wrote:

>

> Hormone Replacement Therapy

>

> When Is It Necessary?

> http://mercola.com/2001/jul/4/hrt.htm

>

> Tim O'Shea

> http://www.thedoctorwithin.com/

>

> Before researching the topic of estrogen, I admit my initial

preconceptions

> about hormone replacement therapy for menopause were less than

brightness

> and trust. The usual pattern seems to be:

>

> - research studies funded by the same companies who propose to sell

the drugs

> - no conclusive positive results from controlled, randomized

clinical trials

> - A Drug In Search of a Market

> - major side effects from the new drug therapy that are chalked up

to the

> " disease " itself

>

> Guess I'm jaded. So sue me.

>

> Trying to prove my preconceptions wrong, the research failed me.

Anyone can

> see how the whole thing was set up. Now this chapter is not light

reading,

> even though I tried. But if you are a woman, you need to read the

whole

> thing. After that, you're on your own.

>

> Drug Hoax Phenomena Are Not New

>

> The same thing happened in the Boer War (Hadwen), in the

Philippines in

> 1905 (Hume, p 200), and in Desert Storm. Mass administration of

drugs that

> killed many more people than they saved. The difference here is

that today

> the control of information has become much more sophisticated, the

focus

> being trust your doctor, trust your doctor - you really don't have

to

> understand the details.

>

> The target is the 30 million menopausal American women, and the

game is the

> $1 billion HRT industry, a vertically integrated boom market.

>

> Here's The Basic Story

>

> Since the 1930s, American women have been trained and bullied into

thinking

> that a natural normal event in their life - menopause - is a disease

> condition requiring treatment. Let's stop with that for a minute.

>

> If it's a disease, how did all the millions of women throughout

history up

> to the present time muddle through it? How do Third World women or

non-HMO

> lifestyles survive the ordeal? Keep those two questions in mind

when you

> read anything mainstream, either advertising or articles.

>

> The " new " " medical condition " requires drug therapy, which

coincidentally

> has just recently been " discovered " : synthetic estrogen - hormone

> replacement therapy. Does it work? Are women better off now? Does

it really

> prevent osteoporosis? Read on!

>

> What Is Menopause?

>

> Menopause is a period of years in a normal woman's life in which

gradual

> hormonal changes bring about a shift away from the physical powers

of

> childbearing, in favor of a more mature condition of mental

development and

> wisdom.

>

> The unpleasant symptoms we have come to associate with menopause

are common

> only in a small group of women in history: American and Northern

European

> women in the past 75 years. Outside that group, menopause is not so

> problematic and is taken more in stride as a natural phase in a

woman's

> life, with little fanfare. It seems that the more simple the

lifestyle, and

> the more simple the diet - the more effortless the transition.

>

> Throughout history, simple diet has been a function of low income.

The most

> nutritious foods are the least expensive: whole fruits and

vegetables,

> unprocessed dairy, whole grains. As lifestyle became more complex,

and

> incomes grew, expensive, empty, processed, nutrient-deficient foods

were

> popularized by marketing and advertising - the foods of commerce.

(Royal Lee)

>

> Less need to exercise, more focus on money, greater stress - the

basic

> formula for the rise of the most resistant group of diseases in

history :

> the degenerative diseases. Heart disease, cancer, arthritis,

diabetes,

> osteoporosis - are epidemic in our society, the richest nation in

history.

> Even 100 years ago such diseases were rare.

>

> By now most of us have heard of a Shangri-La place in the Himalayas

called

> Hunza Land, famous for longevity to 120 years old. Two Americans,

Dr.

> Banik and , visited this isolated mountain

civilization, one in

> 1958 and one in 1962.

>

> Both wrote books describing their incredible experiences. Both

detail the

> simple diet as well as the lack of degenerative diseases, and

infectious

> diseases as well. Physically cut off from the world by treacherous

mountain

> passes, the Hunzas developed their own agriculture system of stone

> terraces, fed by the mineral rich waters of the glaciers. Hunza

health is

> probably unequalled anywhere in the world, or in history. Symptoms

of

> menopause were unheard of in Hunza Land.

>

> In Japan as well as in many other cultures with basic, unrefined

diets,

> there is no word for " hot flashes. " As we shall see, the unpleasant

> symptoms of menopause are directly related to the amount of

estrogen a

> woman has maintained during her adult life, prior to menopause.

>

> Natural phytoestrogens (plant-estrogens) are found in plants like

licorice,

> soybeans, alfalfa, and many others, in very small amounts.

Phytoestrogens

> are weak estrogens and block the stronger forms. A diet abundant in

> phytoestrogens before menopause will do much to moderate the day-to-

day

> estrogen level so that when menopause arrives, there will not be

such big drop.

>

> The Creation Of A Market:

>

> How Did the Whole HRT Thing Get Started In The First Place?

>

> The story really begins in 1938 with the discovery of

diethylstilbestrol

> (DES) by Dobbs. DES was supposed to be the first " synthetic

> estrogen " - an oxymoron, as we shall see. Dobbs first thought DES

would

> solve the problems of menopause, but the AMA immediately began to

make

> extravagant predictions for " preventing miscarriages " and solving

all

> problems of pregnancy as well. (Robbins, p138)

>

> After many years, DES was being prescribed for a " safe pregnancy "

and to

> " prevent miscarriages. " By 1960 it was found that between 60 and

90% of DES

> daughters had abnormal sex organs, leading to high rates of

infertility,

> miscarriages, and cervical cancer. (Sellman p28). DES sons commonly

had

> testicular dysfunctional and were often sterile.

>

> As for the mothers who had taken DES, their risk of breast cancer

had been

> increased by 40%. (Meyers p 143) DES was the first drug ever

invented that

> could cause cancer in the offspring when taken by the mother.

(Reusch, p

> 22) But still the drug wasn't taken off the market until 1971! (

Kamen,

> p99). By that time the industry didn't need DES any more for its

bottom

> line, because ERT was off and running.

>

> Next Contestant

>

> Public attention was then diverted away from the disasters of DES

by a 1966

> best seller called Feminine Forever, by , a New York

> gynecologist. 's thesis was that menopause is an estrogen-

deficiency

> disease. All the unpleasant symptoms which accompany menopause were

the

> simple result of too little estrogen. Insufficient estrogen

supposedly

> caused a woman to lose her youth, beauty, cheerful attitude, and

bone

> density all at once, with the onset of menopause.

>

> Not missing a beat, the drug industry immediately donated $1.3

million to

> set up the Foundation for the sole purpose of developing and

> promoting estrogen drugs. The usual story: limited studies with

> inconclusive results, skewing results to please the company that

was paying

> for the trials, discontinuing studies that weren't turning

out " right " .

>

> The primary study that was the basis for vaulting synthetic

estrogen into

> the limelight, originally as a contraceptive, was a small, flawed

trial

> done in Puerto Rico, in which 20% of the 132 women suffered serious

side

> effects. Five of them died.

>

> Negatives were swept under the carpet as irrelevant - the main

thing was

> that the new wonder drug supposedly cancelled the " horrible "

symptoms of

> menopause - hot flashes, vaginal dryness, migraines, etc. FDA

approval for

> synthetic estrogen was given based on this one study! (Marshall)

Throughout

> 1964 and 1965, fueled by the advertising power of the biggest

clients,

> articles appeared in major women's magazines, like Vogue,

Cosmopolitan, and

> Good Housekeeping proclaiming a breakthrough that would finally set

women

> free from the ravages of the dread menopause. (Lee p24)

>

> Within a few years, with no real proof that was right, with

> superficial clinical trials, synthetic estrogen was being popularly

> prescribed, and a new industry was off and running. They called it

Estrogen

> Replacement Therapy. Better living through chemistry.

>

> A Little Snag Came Up In 1975

>

> The New England Journal of Medicine (Dec 1975 p.1199) published its

> findings after studying the causes of endometrial cancer. They

showed that

> women who took the new estrogen drugs had just increased their risk

of

> endometrial cancer by a factor of five times. Unless they had been

using

> the drugs longer than seven years. Then it was 14 times the normal

incidence.

>

> Sales slowed

>

> Yankee ingenuity to the rescue: it was found, though not

conclusively, that

> rates of endometrial cancer could be reduced if synthetic

progesterone were

> added to the synthetic estrogen. Synthetic progesterones are called

> progestins. So they changed the name from Estrogen Replacement

Therapy to

> Hormone Replacement Therapy, and the show went on. Sales climbed

back up,

> and then continued to grow. And grow.

>

> With similar results to the 1975 study, 20 years later the American

Cancer

> Society conducted a huge 13-year study of some 240,000

postmenopausal women

> to find the relation between HRT and cancer. Their findings: 40%

higher

> incidence of ovarian cancer; after 11 years of HRT, the figure went

to 70%!

> ()

>

> How Could This Be?

>

> As the HRT industry gained strength, the manufacturers began to make

> additional claims about the benefits of HRT, claims that were again

> unsupported by solid research:

>

> HRT could prevent osteoporosis

>

> HRT could prevent heart disease

>

> The underlying, and unproven, assumption of this new " therapy " -

HRT - was

> that women's lives were being improved now that they were spared the

> horrors of aging, menopause, osteoporosis, and the loss of

femininity.

> Unfortunately, these promises are rarely kept, and almost never

because of

> a program of synthetic hormones.

>

> Worse, the side effects of HRT have proven to be a bigger problem

than what

> they were supposed to cure.

>

> To begin to untangle this giant web of doubletalk and wrong

information, we

> have to look at some basic endocrinology: Can't tell the hormones

without a

> program. If this gets too complicated for the attention-challenged,

just

> skip to the next section, but at least give it a try.

>

> Hormones

>

> They are chemical compounds that are players in the most

sophisticated and

> exquisitely balanced internet in the entire body: the endocrine

system.

> This group of glands, including the adrenals, the pituitary, the

ovaries,

> the testes, the thyroid, and the hypothalamus are interrelated in

> impossibly complex ways, about which we're just beginning to get

glimpses

> of understanding.

>

> It's a swirling universe of chemical elegance and precision,

involving

> millions of refined little molecular firings which wink in and out

of

> existence every second. " Touch one strand and the whole web

trembles, " is

> the way endocrinologist Deepak Chopra puts it. The endocrine system

> controls all other systems of the body by means of chemical

messengers, who

> wait for an answer.

>

> What Is Estrogen?

>

> Estrogen is a hormone, one of the moving parts of that endocrine

system. It

> is a steroid (made from cholesterol) hormone, occurring in both men

and women.

>

> Estrogen's functions are primarily the growth and development of

sex organs

> and other tissues related to reproduction (Guyton p1023)

>

> For a basic overview of one little part of the endocrine system,

Lee

> has a very clear summary, like a recipe, for one group of hormones,

those

> made from cholesterol, the steroid hormones:

>

> cholesterol > > >> pregnenolone

> v v

> v progesterone > > corticosterone and aldosterone

> v v

> 17 OH pregnenolone

> > 17 OH progesterone > >

> cortisol

> v v

> DHEA <> androstenedione> estrone estriol

> v v

> ^ ^

> androstenedio <> testosterone > > estradiol

> v

> estriol

>

> Lee, p14

>

> Don't worry, there's no quiz. Dr. Lee just wanted to show a little

corner

> of the complex give-and-take between hormones, how a change in any

one

> hormone in this chart can affect many others. Lee and Chopra both

speak of

> the dance of the hormones, the delicately interwoven choreography,

about

> which we have only the most rudimentary knowledge.

>

> We've begun fooling around with this highly tuned endocrine system

because

> we've discovered a few coarse, synthetic, sledgehammer substances

that

> resemble real estrogen, or real thyroid hormone, or real

progesterone. But

> we really have only the vaguest notion what we're doing, because of

all the

> overlapping interrelationships. Our ignorance has given rise to a

brand new

> disease: endometrial cancer. Plus other big problems.

>

> Back To Estrogen

>

> Estrogen is really a general term for three separate hormones:

>

> - estriol

> - estradiol

> - estrone

>

> From here on out in this chapter, " estrogen " as is produced by the

body

> refers to all three of the above hormones.

>

> Estrogen is produced in three main places in a woman's body:

>

> - the ovaries

> - the adrenal glands

> - the fat cells

>

> The main purpose of estrogen is to make the uterine lining, the

> endometrium, ready to implant a fertilized egg in the event

fertilization

> occurs. To aid in this function, estrogen will promote

>

> - water retention

> - fat storage

> - maturation of the female adolescent

>

> All the above is OK if pregnancy is likely. But excess estrogen

throws off

> the timing. Excess estrogen causes the body to prepare for embryo

> implantation all the time. This state of over-preparation is the

cause of

>

> - sluggish blood circulation

> - migraines

> - increased clotting

> - high stroke risk

> - disrupted copper/zinc ratios in brain cells/ mood swings

> - fibroids

> - endometriosis

>

> Every system in the body has a feedback loop to keep balance.

Estrogen has

> a sister hormone called progesterone, whose functions are equally

important.

>

> Part 2

>

> What Is Progesterone, Anyway?

>

> Progesterone is the other primary female hormone. It is produced in

the

> ovaries. It is the precursor for both estrogen and testosterone, as

well as

> all other natural steroid hormones (see chart above).

>

> Progesterone's functions are

>

> maintains the endometrium in pregnancy

>

> new bone formation

>

> regulates blood pressure

>

> fat conversion

>

> sugar metabolism

>

> maintaining myelin (nerve insulation)

>

> regulates estrogen production

>

> You'll remember that an egg is presented once a month from the

ovaries,

> wrapped in an envelope called a follicle. After the follicle lets

go of the

> egg, the egg journeys down the Fallopian tubes on its way to the

uterus,

> where it awaits possible fertilization. The burst follicle still

has an

> important job to do: it begins to produce progesterone, for the

next two

> weeks. Progesterone's job is to maintain the uterine lining until

one of

> two things happens:

>

> pregnancy

>

> no pregnancy

>

> If pregnancy occurs, progesterone production is taken over by the

> developing lining itself - the placenta. The burst follicle simply

can't

> make enough progesterone for the demand, since the uterus will

expand from

> the size of a lemon to the size of a basketball during the next

nine months.

>

> If no pregnancy occurs, the follicle stops producing progesterone,

which

> triggers the collapse of the blood-rich lining, which is then

expelled as

> the woman's monthly flow.

>

> So the interplay between these two hormones estrogen and

progesterone

> controls the entire infrastructure of reproduction, on a daily

basis, after

> the onset of menarche (first flow) in adolescence. Estrogen creates

the

> lining each month; progesterone maintains it.

>

> Then what's the problem?

>

> Estrogen Dominance

>

> If estrogen levels get too high, progesterone can no longer keep the

> dynamic balance. This is exactly what happens in American women.

who live

> their whole adult lives with pathologically high levels of

estrogen. Three

> main reasons for the high levels:

>

> overrefined diet

>

> no exercise

>

> external toxic sources of estrogen : xenoestrogens

>

> Refined carbohydrates, hard fats, empty foods and too much of it

all serve

> to raise estrogen to abnormal levels, as much as twice the normal,

which

> are maintained for the better part of the adult lives of most

American women.

>

> Second, lack of exercise. Dr. Ellison of Harvard University found

that

> estrogen levels are much lower in women who eat little and perform

> strenuous physical work, as in locales with non-industrialized

lifestyle.

>

> The opposite is true for the American woman who eats too much and

gets

> little exercise: abnormally high estrogen levels are the direct

result. Dr.

> Lee points out the obvious corollary: menopause is a much bigger

deal in

> our industrialized countries, because the estrogen decline is so

radical -

> the difference between pre and post estrogen levels is significant.

This

> hormonal rollercoaster dip is very stressful, and is the real cause

of the

> discomforts of menopause.

>

> Third, xenoestrogens. Huh? Xeno- means foreign. So the word

xenoestrogen

> just means estrogens from outside the body. Many external toxins

have been

> found to have estrogenlike effects in the body. Most are petroleum

> derivatives. Xenoestrogens are found in plastics, computer chips,

PVC,

> pesticides, soap, clothes, DDT and other modern manufactured goods.

>

> There has been extensive zoological research in the area of

xenoestrogen

> effects on animals and the resulting birth defects. In studies of

panthers,

> alligators, birds, turtles, seals, fish, and many other species from

> diverse parts of the globe, scientists are finding a common theme:

> feminization of males, decreased sperm counts, low male

testosterone, and

> extremely high levels of estrogen in females, with plummeting

numbers of

> offspring.

>

> Though some scientists had known about the problem for several

years,

> public attention was drawn by a series of articles that appeared in

three

> consecutive issues of the LA Times in Oct 1994.

>

> Alligator offspring studied at University of Florida had very high

estrogen

> and low testosterone as a consequence of a large pesticide spill in

Lake

> Apopka near Gainesville. Again, gonad shrinkage was observed in

males,

> leading to a drop in alligator reproduction in the lake estimated

at 90%

> since the spill occurred.

>

> Wild panthers in the Florida Everglades have had their sperm counts

reduced

> by 90%, due to high estrogen levels from years of state dumping of

DDT and

> other toxic pesticides into the swamp waters.

>

> Between 1950 and 1970, some four million pounds of the pesticide

DDT,

> illegal today, was dumped into the ocean in Los Angeles. Examples of

> eggshell thinning, gonad shrinkage and feminization in males,

overdeveloped

> ovaries in females, and failure to thrive are some of the defects

found in

> seagull studies at UC by Fry. In 1981, Fry published

his

> research in the journal Science. Shrugged off for years by the

scientific

> community, Fry's work is now being corroborated all over the world

in

> dozens of other species.

>

> Males Are Also Affected

>

> Think of the surfing implications for the L.A. spill. " two girls for

every

> boy " ??? Not any more! Declining sperm counts in American males in

the past

> 30 years is well documented. An article in Lancet, May 1993

estimates a

> drop in sperm count of 50% in the past 30-50 years, and links the

decline

> to environmental estrogen mimickers.

>

> Xenoestrogens, as well as a modern high-fat diet, are lowering the

onset of

> menarche for young girls. In 1900, American girls matured at 14.

Today the

> average age is 12, and for some groups is as early as 8 years old!

(Beaton)

>

> The effects of DDT and PCBs are often hidden, and often don't occur

until

> many years later in the offspring of these exposed animals. Birds

are born

> with twisted bills or deformed reproductive organs. Other animals

have

> physical characteristics of both male and female, but can't function

> normally as either one.

>

> The reason DDT and PCBs were outlawed was that they don't break

down; they

> persist unchanged in the environment for years and years, still

capable of

> the same trauma to living cells. These chemical simply don't

degrade.

>

> The effect of hormone-mimicking pollutants, the xenoestrogens, is

being

> kept under wraps, because of its obvious implications for liability

by the

> chemical manufacturers. Chemical contamination is not limited to a

few

> isolated areas. It is a global problem, beyond the scope of this

chapter.

> The reader is directed to Theo Colburn's startling book Our Stolen

Future

> for a better look.

>

> The point is, we are in the same ecosystem, the same food chain,

the same

> biosphere as these animals. Human DNA is 98% identical to that of

an ape.

> Our cells and tissues are susceptible to these same distortions. It

is no

> coincidence that the women of the industrialized nations of

northern Europe

> and the United States have two things in common:

>

> the highest rates in history of breast cancer, endometrial cancer,

and HRT

> consumption

>

> high exposure to plastics, chemicals, computer chips, pesticides

and other

> xenoestrogens

>

> Lee talks about the " sea of estrogen " in which we exist as the

result

> of many factors:

>

> . fat soluble hormones in meat . DDT

> . PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls) . cosmetics

> . foaming agents in soap and detergents . plastic cookware

> . tons of pesticides, herbicides . birth control pills

> . condom spermicides . HRT

>

> The pathway of causation is clear: xenoestrogens maintain estrogen

levels

> at double the normal values for the entire adult life of the human

female.

> As the complementary hormone that's supposed to balance the

delicate system

> of sex hormones, progesterone is simply overwhelmed by the dominant

> estrogens. Natural hormones are subtle and fragile and transient.

> Xenoestrogens by contrast are harsh and strong and long-lasting.

> Progesterone just doesn't stand a chance. HRT is just another

xenoestrogen,

> making things worse.

>

> Let's take a look at some of the Consequences Of Estrogen Dominance

>

> As estrogen levels build up to twice the normal level, many systems

of the

> body are adversely affected. Body fat stores increase. Fluids are

retained,

> causing bloating and edema. There are defects in both fat and sugar

> metabolism, often severe enough to cause diabetes. Risks of

endometrial

> cancer are increased to 5-14 times, as cited in the 1975 NEJM

articles above.

>

> Promotion Of Osteoporosis

>

> Slow onset of blood poisoning (toxemia) due to inability of chemical

> xenoestrogens to be broken down. This in turn obviously contributes

to

> autoimmune disorders like lupus, chronic fatigue, and arthritis, in

which

> the body begins to attack its own cells as they become so toxic

that they

> are unrecognizable as " self. "

>

> Alteration of zinc and copper uptake in brain cells causes mood

swings, a

> nice euphemism. Incidence of stroke increases 50% with estrogen,

according

> to an extensive project, known as the Boston Nurses Questionnaire

Study, of

> 121,000 nurses. (Stampfer)

>

> Normal estrogen stimulates breast and endometrial tissue. Excess

estrogen

> causes excess stimulation of breast and endometrial collagen,

resulting in

> fibroids in both locations. (McDougall, p87)

>

> Another health detriment of estrogen is its destruction of B

vitamins.

> Nutritionist Sumption documents the opposition of estrogen with

> Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6 and other B-complex vitamins: Biotin,

Choline,

> Folic Acid, PABA, and Inositol. Most functions of cell metabolism

depend on

> B vitamins. Symptoms of depletion include fatigue, sluggish memory,

hair

> loss, and aging.

>

> This Is Only A Partial List

>

> It should be obvious that effects like these are systemic

(everywhere the

> blood goes) and as such can affect practically any weakened tissue

in the

> body. To say that drugs and chemicals cause a downward spiral of

health is

> not just a metaphor.

>

> A growing number of medical researchers (see References) who do not

> represent the interests of the drug cartels are stepping forward to

show

> that the symptoms of menopause are not caused by too little

estrogen, but

> by too much. To turn popular opinion around 180° from nature and

trick

> American women into thinking that at menopause symptoms and

postmenopausal

> dangers are caused by insufficient estrogen - once again, we are

looking at

> mastery in the control of information. The motivation is simple: $1

billion

> per year.

>

> Synthetic hormones are not harmless. The side effects of HRT are

often the

> same or worse than the original menopause symptoms they set out to

cure.

>

> Side Effect of HRT

>

> . increased risk of breast cancer . breast tenderness . weight

gain

> . increased risk of endometrial cancer . vaginal bleeding . blood

clots

> . vastly increased rate of heart attack . skin reactions . rash,

acne

> . fluid retention, bloating . osteoporosis . hair loss

> . high blood pressure . hair loss or gain

>

> Part 3

>

> Other Side Effects of HRT

>

> Depression (Obstet and Gyn, 1992 80:30)

>

> Breast Cancer (NEJM 19 Jun 97; 336:1821)

>

> Stroke ( NEJM 1991 vol 325p756)

>

> Lupus (Lee p258)

>

> But wait a minute! I thought everything was supposed to be fine

once they

> added synthetic progesterone to the synthetic estrogen. That's what

> everybody was supposed to think. But the real stats don't show it.

>

> Lee, MD, a California endocrine researcher, explains why.

Simple:

> HRT's synthetic progesterone is completely altered after going

through the

> digestive system, when it gets to the liver. The liver changes it

into

> three other metabolites. Any benefits are thus cancelled. So the

big change

> in the 70s from ERT to HRT was largely a change in public

perception, due

> to drug advertising, and its second cousin, peer-reviewed medical

journal

> articles.

>

> Dr. Lee's view, and that of other proponents of natural progesterone

> products is that the problems at menopause are not caused by lack of

> estrogen, but by lack of progesterone. Remember that estrogen

production

> drops 40% at menopause.

>

> Well, progesterone drops to 0%. And look at all the things it's

responsible

> for. The synthetic progesterone in HRT isn't doing any good, since

it's

> being changed into something else in the liver. It's not real

progesterone.

> Therefore the estrogen is still unopposed.

>

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> CAUTION: Please be sure to read Dr. Mercola's warning on

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> The Anovulatory Cycle

>

> Many American women in their 20s and 30s have monthly cycles in

which they

> don't ovulate. That is, an egg is not released from the ovary. Such

a

> widespread phenomenon is a new twist in human evolution. There are

obvious

> reasons, as well as serious effects which accompany this unnatural

process

> - the inability to reproduce - now taking place in so many adult

females.

>

> The reasons for anovulation are simple: severe biochemical

imbalance. First

> the xenoestrogens. We are in the same biosphere, the same food

chain as all

> the animals mentioned above who have experienced reproductive chaos

from

> chemical pollutants. Why should our species be exempt? It isn't. We

drink

> the water of the same planet, eat fish and plants and meat laced

with the

> same immortal PCBs and DDTs - it's a closed system.

>

> Stress obviously promotes biochemical imbalance by overtaxing the

adrenals,

> which then steal progesterone to make more adrenal hormones, which

further

> promotes estrogen dominance. Coffee is a big culprit, as well as

soft

> drinks. A s Hopkins study found that women who take in more

than 300 mg

> of caffeine per day (three cups of coffee, or eight sodas) reduce

their

> chance of conception by 26%.

>

> Effects of a female going through adulthood without being

physically able

> to reproduce? Look around you. See any sexual ambivalence in any

areas?

> I'll spare you my theories on contemporary social issues. But the

physical

> effects of anovulation are a very clear result of the disruption of

the

> fragile endocrine balance that has taken aeons to evolve.

>

> One obvious ill effect of menstruating without ovulating as well as

too

> much estrogen is the overstimulation of the endometrial lining.

After a

> time, the excessive monthly lining promotes irregular lumps of

connective

> tissue known as fibroids to form. Too easily and too readily, the

buzzword

> " pre-cancerous " comes up, with the snap prescription for a

completely

> unnecessary hysterectomy.

>

> Between 600 thousand and one million hysterectomies are performed on

> American women each year, 90% of them unnecessary, according to

Stanley

> West, MD. That story is beyond the scope of this chapter except to

raise

> the red flag that estrogen dominance sets the stage for most of the

> " irregularities " which end up with a prescription for hysterectomy.

The

> reader is referred to Dr. West's book The Hysterectomy Hoax for a

dark

> journey. Also the first half of Robbins' Reclaiming Our Health.

>

> What's Wrong With What Most Women Are Told About Menopause?

>

> The standard line is that menopausal women need estrogen therapy to

prevent

> osteoporosis and other menopause symptoms because the body has

stopped

> making its own estrogen. HRT (synthetic estrogen + synthetic

progesterone)

> will take up the slack. HRT is routinely recommended in practically

any

> situation, physical or mental that can be even remotely tied to

menopause.

>

> What the drug industry has conveniently ignored is that at

menopause,

> estrogen output drops only about 40%. (Sellman, p16) Ovary

production of

> estrogen drops way down below the level necessary for reproductive

> function. But adrenal and fat cell outputs of estrogen keep on

going in

> order to maintain the other important endocrine functions of

estrogen,

> which are not directly related to reproduction:

>

> bone building

>

> electrolyte balance

>

> insulin balance

>

> fat and protein metabolism

>

> cholesterol synthesis

>

> (Guyton, p1024)

>

> That 40% figure is only for American and Northern European women,

who have

> the highest estrogen levels in the world. In nonindustrialized

countries,

> the drop is much less, primarily because their normal level of

estrogen is

> so much lower. What is commonly ignored is that progesterone levels

drop to

> 0% at menopause, and progesterone is necessary to keep a balance

with estrogen.

>

> So do the math: if an American woman has had estrogen levels that

are

> double the normal for most of her adult life, and at menopause,

estrogen

> only drops 40%, that means she is still operating at 120%

of " normal, "

> compared with an agrarian-type, nonindustrialized woman. But with

this

> estimated 120% of normal estrogen, after menopause, there is NO

> progesterone to offset it. Estrogen dominance is a new phenomenon in

> nature, created by modern society, and modern medical politics.

>

> Why Is The Solution Not Fake Estrogen?

>

> Synthetic estrogen dosage is way too much, and too weird, for the

body to

> deal with. Synthetic hormones have molecular forms that do not

occur in

> nature. They are manmade. The dancing of the hormones in the above

chart is

> seriously disrupted by adding hormone-like chemicals than can mimic

some of

> the functions of real hormones, but cannot maintain their role in

the ever

> changing back and forth swirling biochemical dance that is taking

place at

> every second in the normal body.

>

> These fake hormones are insensitive to the body's requirements for

> instantaneous alteration into another member of the hormone chart.

>

> Aspirin is made from the bark of the white willow. People have been

using

> white willow bark for centuries as a mild pain reliever. But white

willow

> bark cannot destroy the stomach lining on contact the way aspirin

does. In

> the same way that aspirin is not white willow bark, synthetic

estrogen is

> not estrogen. And synthetic progesterone is not progesterone.

>

> The main problem with synthetic hormones is that they last too

long. All

> the natural hormonal feedback loops, which we do not even completely

> understand, are disrupted because the synthetics can't act as

precursors to

> the changing hormonal forms in the same way that the natural

hormones know.

>

> The hormone system becomes fragmented with millions of one-way

orders that

> are supposed to have return messages. As long as synthetics keep

coming in,

> there's no way to de-frag the system. The result is loss of proper

> interplay between the reproductive, adrenal, and thyroid systems.

They all

> suffer.

>

> American women arguably are among the most stressed people in

history,

> emotionally and nutritionally, as well as environmentally. It is

well known

> that stress depletes the adrenal glands. When this happens,

progesterone is

> converted to adrenal hormones, like cortisol, to take up the slack

and try

> to keep up with adrenal demands. Remember, progesterone is their

precursor,

> in the above chart. The result is further depletion of

progesterone, again

> promoting estrogen dominance.

>

> The above list of side effects of HRT is caused by one simple

thing:

>

> Unopposed Estrogen

>

> Too pure and too much. And no progesterone.

>

> So this is why cancer risks with HRT remain much higher than

without HRT.

> The connection between HRT and cancer is really quite logical when

you

> consider the normal functions of estrogen: controlling areas of

rapidly

> dividing cells in preparation for reproduction. Unopposed estrogen,

as

> we've known since the 1970s, upsets the normal endocrine balance.

And where

> does the imbalance appear?

>

> Rapidly dividing cells of the reproductive tissues: endometrium,

ovaries,

> breast. Perhaps nature did not intend for these tissues to be going

wild at

> this time of life, when the reproductive system is supposed to be

going out

> of business. Wouldn't a tissue defect like cancer be a natural

result of

> artificially jumpstarting tissues which want to start winding down a

> little? Especially when the hormones are of the imitation, manmade,

> designer variety?

>

> Dr. Lee underscores one amazing fact: the only known cause of

endometrial

> cancer is unopposed estrogen!

>

> Unopposed estrogen is actually heightened by giving standard HRT

because of

> the increased ratio of estrogen to progesterone. Research has never

proven

> that estrogen deficiency causes cancer, but many studies have shown

that

> progesterone deficiency does.

>

> A s Hopkins study of 1000 women showed that progesterone

deficient

> women had a tenfold increased chance of dying from cancer compared

with

> women who have normal levels of progesterone. (Cowan)

>

> Jerilynn Prior, MD a world authority in endocrinology says that

describing

> menopause as an " estrogen deficiency disease " is the same as

describing

> headache as an " aspirin deficiency disease. " She calls this type of

> thinking 'backwards science.' Illnesses cannot be categorized by

which

> drugs they are missing. That would assume that drugs cure

illnesses, which

> almost never happens. Especially not in the case of HRT. Menopause

is not

> an illness.

>

> So Why Don't Gynecologists Prescribe Progesterone?

>

> Some do. The problem here is that natural sources of progesterone

are easy

> to find and inexpensive to make from many plants sources. As such

they

> cannot be patented.

>

> This is a central point to keep in mind, perhaps the most important

idea of

> this chapter. There are inexpensive plant-based phytoestrogens and

natural

> progesterones which can control most estrogen imbalances,

especially when

> incorporated into a detoxifying low-stress diet. Synthetics (drugs)

are

> rarely necessary.

>

> But Only Drugs Can Be Patented

>

> There is no way to make massive profits from a natural plant

source, and

> you have just heard the primary reason for the organized attack on

holistic

> supplements that is under way in the US today. Natural risk-free

products

> are a threat to the drug trade. Drug concerns develop chemical

compounds

> that are almost like the natural hormone. But almost only counts in

> grenade-tossing. Maybe the synthetic compound is only different by

an atom

> or two.

>

> Perhaps it can mimic some of the activity of the real hormone.

After that,

> it is only necessary to create a market by control of information,

by

> controlling the outcome and publishing of clinical studies, and by

> controlling regulating agencies, using political and legal tactics.

But

> that one-atom difference in the shape of the molecule is all the

difference

> in the world, in terms of breakdown, toxicity, and side effects.

> Understanding this paragraph will go far in explaining many of the

> contradictions of HRT, the unanswered questions, the indirect

answers, the

> arrogance one encounters.

>

> Where Do These Designer Hormone Replacement Drugs Come From Anyway?

>

> The most popular synthetic estrogen is a drug called Premarin, made

from

> the urine of pregnant horses! This is no joke. Manufactured by the

> Philadelphia pharmaceutical giant Wyeth-Ayerth since 1942, an

estimated

> $940 million per year (Sellman p5) worldwide is generated by the

sale of

> this one drug. Most estimates are that at least 75% of HRT drugs

contain

> Premarin. Since 1993, Premarin has been among the top three drugs

in the

> U.S. in gross sales. (National Center for Health Statistics)

>

> In 1992, Wyeth-Ayerth spent $9 million just for advertising

Premarin! Their

> ad execs came up with the brilliant phrase " untreated menopause. "

That same

> year Premarin was the #1 drug prescribed in the U.S. (Robbins, p

140).

>

> This Is Marketing Mastery

>

> Before we consider the effectiveness of this drug, let's briefly

look at

> the circumstances involved in its preparation.

>

> Some 700 " horse farms " are set up in remote areas of the United

States and

> Canada. Most of them have extensive security, and with good reason.

At any

> one time, some 80,000 or so horses suffer the slow torture of life

as a lab

> rat. Each mare is strapped into a tiny stall in which there is no

room to

> lie down or even turn around.

>

> For seven months of the 11 month pregnancy, the horse is

immobilized in the

> stall, hooked up to a catheter which collects all her urine. She is

> deprived of sufficient water in order to make the urine more

concentrated,

> thus raising its value to the drug company. Infections frequently

occur at

> the site of the catheter and from the restraining apparatus. Liver

and

> kidney disease are common.

>

> The foals themselves are referred to as " by-products " by the

manufacturing

> company and are generally sold to the slaughterhouse. The mare is

> immediately impregnated after she has given birth and soon is

imprisoned

> back in the tiny stall for another run. After about 12 years of this

> horrible life, the mares are themselves slaughtered and sold for

dogmeat.

>

> This has been going on for 56 years! Over one million horses have

been

> cruelly abused in this way.

>

> In Canada, the foaling generally takes place on open prairie.

Mother and

> foal are immediately separated, and most of the foals die. The ones

that

> survive are extremely stressed, and with good reason: they are sold

to

> slaughterhouses and shipped to Europe and Japan where certain cuts

are

> regarded as delicacies.

>

> I think you get the point. For more details follow up at

> www.allrealgood.com Information like this tends to suggest that

agencies

> like the ASPCA are basically PR fronts focusing on self-promotion

and

> making sure dogs in Jack Nicholson movies get enough overtime. .

>

> Even if Premarin were the true answer to all of menopause's

annoyances,

> reviewing the above data should be enough for any sane person to

feel some

> twinge of guilt about contributing to a program of such horrendous

cruelty.

>

> Menopause can't be that bad, can it? But the reality is that

Premarin and

> other HRT synthetics do not work, do not do what they're supposed

to do,

> and have major side effects. If you have any notion whatsoever of

universal

> harmony or equilibrium, it seems logical that we're not gonna get

away with

> this. And we don't. The first payback is one of the biggies:

cancer.

>

> Henry Lemon MD of the University of Nebraska College of Medicine

feels that

> an unnatural imbalance is caused by putting horse estrogens into a

woman's

> body. The body does not allow two of the three naturally occurring

> estrogens, estradiol and estrone, to hang around very long. It

converts

> them into the non-carcinogenic estriol, as soon as possible. Such a

helpful

> conversion cannot happen with Premarin because of the amounts

involved. So

> the propensity for cancer is clearly seen: the carcinogenic forms

are

> allowed to persist.

>

> Premarin was approved by the FDA over 50 years ago, when

requirements were

> must less stringent. There are many unknown ingredients in Premarin

which

> may be normal in a horse, but not a human. It is likely that these

are

> instrumental in the abnormally high rates of uterine and breast

cancer

> following HRT, which rates are anywhere from a 30% to a 600%

increase above

> normal, depending on the study.

>

> Are women informed? Hardly. Information like the above is very bad

for

> business.

>

> Many phytoestrogens from plants are now available, as well as

generic

> synthetic Premarin substitutes. With clever legal maneuvering

however,

> Wyeth-Ayerth has successfully blocked the generic substitutes from

FDA

> approval by a twist worthy of ny Cochran.

>

> They have claimed that the generics do not contain one of the

unknown

> elements that Premarin contains, which is true. However it is more

likely

> that the unknown element - 8,9 dehydroestrone sulfate - is toxic,

not

> beneficial! Even the FDA regards 8,9 dehydroestrone sulfate as an

> " impurity " and yet the FDA will not approve the generics because

they don't

> have it! As all throughout history, today more than ever, politics

controls

> " science. "

>

> Osteoporosis

>

> As if cancer risk is not bad enough, let's look at another of

women's

> greatest fears: osteoporosis after menopause. Here is a simple

topic about

> which most women have been completely duped. Standard " common sense "

> inculcated by media, advertising, and their Ob/Gyn-drug reps warns

women

> that they must take estrogen and calcium or else they will

experience bone

> loss. This false notion is one of the truly great masterpieces of

modern

> disinformation.

>

> First of all, there are no valid, randomized clinical studies which

> demonstrate increased bone mineralization following HRT.

>

> Bone is not what you see left on your plate after you're done with

your

> medium rare T-bone steak. In the body, bone is living tissue, with

rich

> networks of blood vessels and nerves. Bone is constantly being torn

down

> and replaced by specialized blood cells. Every seven years, your

entire

> skeleton is completely replaced.

>

> Bone has a matrix, or framework, on which calcium is laid down. In

America,

> everyone gets enough calcium. True calcium deficiency results in a

disease

> called kwashiorkor, which is found only in Third World starvation

> countries, not in America. Osteoporosis is not a disease of calcium

> deficiency.

>

> It's a disease of matrix deficiency: the framework got flimsier.

There

> isn't as much matrix to attach the calcium to. There's plenty of

available

> calcium. Calcium is an inert mineral contained in most foods. The

body

> maintains the blood levels of calcium at a certain level. Anything

extra,

> like in calcium supplements, is spilled out of the body by the

kidneys,

> because it's over the normal blood levels. If there's only so much

> framework, it really doesn't matter how much calcium is in the

blood; the

> excess is spilled out.

>

> Keep in mind that most calcium supplements don't even make it into

the

> bloodstream, especially if they're tablets. They never even

dissolved in

> the digestive tract; they pass right out of the body. This you can

prove to

> yourself by placing a calcium tablet in a glass of water and

leaving it

> there all night. Most of them don't dissolve.

>

> Even the calcium supplements that do make it into the bloodstream

are

> mostly spilled out, for the above reasons.

>

> In short, calcium supplementation will not increase bone density in

> premenopausal women, nor prevent it post-menopause. (Ettinger)

>

> American women don't get osteoporosis because they lack calcium, or

> estrogen. Anybody who does a little research knows this. The

countries with

> the highest rates of osteoporosis on earth are Scandinavia, England,

> Australia, and the U.S. These are also the places with the highest

> consumption of dairy products.(McDougall, p176) It is pasteurized

milk,

> cheese, and butter which leach calcium from the body, since these

> enzymeless, artificial, modern foods cannot be easily metabolized.

The

> processes of removal from the blood takes a lot of calcium stores

from the

> teeth and bones. (Recker).

>

> The definition of pasteurization is removal of all enzymes via

heat. One of

> the enzymes in milk thus denatured is phosphatase. Its purpose?

Calcium

> absorption. Without phosphatase, calcium absorption doesn't happen.

>

> But wait! What about milk as a source of calcium, building strong

bones and

> good teeth and all that? .and you never outgrow your need for it,

and all

> those movie stars with the moustaches? Marketing. Advertising.

Promotion.

>

> Who do you think pays for the dietary educational tools used in

American

> schools since the 1950s - you know, the four food groups, and all

that? The

> American Dairy Council and the dairy industry. The whole story is

better

> told in Twogood's book No Milk, available anywhere.

>

> Processed foods are indigestible. The stomach keeps pouring out the

gastric

> juices, in the form of HCl (hydrochloric acid) but it's not enough

to break

> down these weird manmade chemically preserved foods. The food just

sits

> there in the stomach and rots. The abundant HCl may get splashed

backward

> into the esophagus, causing reflux (heartburn).

>

> What Is The Medical Solution?

>

> Prilosec, which does what? Right. Inhibits production of HCl. Does

this aid

> digestion? No. The undigested food still sits there and rots. Worse

news:

> guess what is required for calcium absorption in the stomach. HCl.

Prilosec

> in this way directly contributes to osteoporosis.

>

> Another reason Americans lose calcium from bones and teeth is acid-

forming

> foods: soft drinks, too much meat, white sugar. All these tend to

acidify

> the blood. If the blood gets too acidic, death will result. For

> self-preservation, the body must neutralize all this acid, maintain

blood

> pH between 7.3 and 7.45. The process is called buffering, and it

requires

> calcium.

>

> When there isn't enough available, the body steals calcium from the

bones

> and teeth. This is why Heaney MD says that eating a high

protein

> diet is like pouring acid rain on your bones. It is a high protein

diet

> that is the primary cause of osteoporosis. (McDougall, p171)

>

> The point is, it's true that Americans have a high rate of

osteoporosis,

> not just women. But this has nothing to do with estrogen.

>

> Do horses gets osteoporosis? Never. What do they eat? Grass. How

about

> cows? Are they taking Cal-Mag? Do they take Premarin? Calcium is in

all foods.

>

> Do menopausal horses get osteoporosis? Negative. Do menopausal

third world

> women get osteoporosis? Negative.

>

> So if HRT is not going to reverse osteoporosis, what will? Reducing

dairy

> intake, and other artificial foods, like white sugar and soft

drinks.

>

> Not only is there no proof to support the fantasy so many doctors

offer

> their patients - HRT will save you from osteoporosis - there is

abundant

> research that shows that synthetic hormones actually have no effect

> whatsoever on preventing bone loss. One of the most noted of these

is the

> 14 Oct 1993 study in the NEJM, which conclusively shows that the

risk of

> hip fractures for women over 75 is the same whether or not the

woman took

> synthetic estrogen.

>

> Hip fractures are the greatest fear of aging people, as well as a

prime

> indicator of osteoporosis. The article goes on to note that most

women

> believe their physicians when they say that HRT will prevent

osteoporosis,

> yet here is proof that it doesn't. The authors state that estrogen

therapy

> is simply unable to prevent loss of bone density.

>

> Taking synthetic estrogen cannot rebuild bones. It can temporarily

slow the

> rate of bone loss, but when the HRT is stopped, osteoporosis soon

catches

> up like the woman never took HRT at all. Is that temporary benefit

worth a

> 9-14 times greater risk of cancer? Dr. Lee thinks not. (Lee, p152)

>

> In addition, many common drugs cause osteoporosis. Millions have

been duped

> into the thyroid scam - told they were overweight because they were

> 'hypothyroid.' Synthroid to the rescue. What the doctor never tells

you is

> that Synthroid stimulates osteoclasts to resorb bone. Remember how

bone is

> built by living tissue? Well, that happens with the simultaneous

action of

> two complementary types of blood cells: osteoclasts for tearing

down old

> bone, and osteoblasts for building new bone. Obviously an imbalance

in

> either one of these will cause a problem.

>

> Other non-estrogen drugs which are prescribed to supposedly reduce

the

> chance of osteoporosis, have serious side effects. In his video,

Dr.

> Lee outlines the dangers of a very popular drug named Fosamax.

>

> It's actually quite simple. Again, living healthy bone must go

through a

> constant process of old cells being replaced by new cells, so that

every

> few years we have an entire new skeleton. Osteoclasts are cells

that tear

> down bone; osteoblasts build new cells in those spaces. Got that?

OK. The

> intellects behind Fosamax have decided that if they can stop the

> osteoclasts from doing their normal job of tearing down bone, this

will

> prevent osteoporosis.

>

> How?

>

> By the buildup of Fosamax crystals in the bone, which just stay

there long

> after a normal lifespan, which artificially stops the removal

system - the

> osteoclasts. Now there are no spaces in which new bone cells can

form. The

> Fosamax crystals cannot be broken down by the body, and remain in

the bone

> for 15 or 20 years, taking up space, and offering an artificial,

> plastic-like composition in what should be normal healthy bone.

>

> Dr. Lee tells us that modern Fosamax is 1000 times more potent than

the

> original biphosphonate.

>

> Even the manufacturers caution against indiscriminate long term use

of this

> drug: on p 1657-8 of the 1998 Physicians Desk Reference we find

that: " bone

> formation.is ultimately reduced.Fosamax decreases the rate of bone

> resorption [tearing down] directly, which leads to an indirect

decrease in

> bone formation. "

>

> Decreased bone formation? Does that sound like something that's

going to

> maintain normal bone and prevent osteoporosis in your golden years?

Dr. Lee

> and many others don't think so.

>

> The PDR also tells us that they have no idea what effects Fosamax

may have

> after four years! (p1661)

>

> Here we have a prime example of the philosophical difference between

> allopathic and holistic medicine: they forgot that Mother Nature

always

> bats last. You can't arbitrarily interfere with one half of a

complete life

> process like bone synthesis and expect no adverse consequences.

>

> With Fosamax, we have arrogantly overpowered the body's normal

system of

> bone building which has developed and maintained the skeleton just

fine for

> the person's whole life, by pretending that one phase of that

system exists

> in isolation from the whole rest of the endocrine Internet, and can

be

> omitted with no consequences.

>

> Doctors trick women by telling them that Fosamax will increase " bone

> mineral density " but what they don't tell them is that the new

mineral is

> not calcium and is no longer part of the living dynamic process

which has

> maintained their bones their entire lives.

>

> This is not yet even mentioning the side effects of Fosamax:

>

> kidney disease

>

> ulcers

>

> heartburn

>

> joint pain

>

> headache

>

> rash

>

> Fosamax is a risky, artificial approach to osteoporosis which

pretends like

> the problem can be divided up into separate, distinct unrelated

phases,

> like with a car. Same old idea, over and over: another drug in

search of a

> market.

>

> Same old story. Osteoporosis is big business. Big business to keep

it

> happening, and big business to treat it. The dairy industry, the

meat

> industry, the soft drink industry all keep it happening. The HRT

industry,

> the nursing home industry, and the hospitals gain from the

treatment of

> osteoporosis. McDougall explains:

>

> " The diagnosis and treatment of osteoporosis is so profitable

because

> millions of people unwittingly weaken their bones, making them

dependent

> for the rest of their life on diagnostic tests and drug therapy

that slows

> the disorder.but never cures it. "

> - The McDougall Plan p172

>

> Another area of major disinformation with respect to HRT is

>

> Heart Disease

>

> Unsupported claims are made actually claiming that HRT will help

prevent

> heart disease. There seems to be no limit to what they'll say. It's

pretty

> hard to reconcile such a recommendation with the fact that

cardiovascular

> disease is stated as a clear contraindication for most estrogen

drugs.

> Contraindication means a situation where the drug can't be

prescribed. (Br

> J of Obs and Gyn Feb 1997;104:163 also, PDR. 1998)

>

> We all know that one in two deaths in the US is from heart disease.

What is

> less commonly known is that heart attack in the premenopausal woman

is

> virtually unheard of. Yet 10 years after menopause, and especially

if the

> woman is on HRT, the rates soon come up equal to men's rates. Just

a little

> research uncovers the likely reasons behind such a phenomenon.

>

> In his videotape What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause,

> Lee MD notes that HRT is the number one cause of increased rates of

heart

> attacks in postmenopausal women. Why? In a word, vasospasm. The

word means

> tightening of a blood vessel.

>

> The coronary arteries are the ones that supply the heart with

blood. They

> are also the ones that get blocked in heart attacks, and therefore

they are

> the site of bypass operations. They are what is bypassed. The most

popular

> site is the Anterior Descending Coronary Artery.

>

> In males who are screened for bypass, the Anterior Descending may

be 80 to

> 95% blocked, and surgery will be recommended. If death comes first,

on

> autopsy these high rates of blockage are observed.

>

> In postmenopausal women, however, autopsies frequently showed only

a 30-50%

> blockage of the artery, yet death was due to heart attack.

Researchers

> couldn't understand what was happening for the longest time. So

they began

> to do angiogram studies with Rhesus monkeys - animal abuse in the

classic

> Pasteurian tradition.

>

> Angiogram, you remember, is where they X-ray the arteries after

injecting

> dye into them. Now monkeys don't go through menopause, so they had

to

> create it for the study. The way they did it was to first remove the

> ovaries. To induce heart attack they injected Provera, which is a

synthetic

> hormone used for human birth control.

>

> The results were " unrelenting " vasospasm of the coronary artery

which means

> that the artery which had as little as a 30% blockage constricted

down to

> complete closure and would not open up again no matter what they

tried.

> Obviously this killed Ms. Monkey in the ensuing heart attack.

>

> So the researchers realized that HRT was the missing factor that was

> responsible for heart attacks in postmenopausal women whose coronary

> arteries were less than 50% blocked. Did you read that study

anywhere in

> Newsweek or in the Chronicle?. Information like this that

challenges a

> billion dollar HRT industry is systematically buried.

>

> If natural progesterone is added to the Provera, the artery does

not go

> into spasm. This data was according to a study done in England at

the

> London Institute of Heart and Lung Research by MD.

>

> Again the point here is that natural progesterone is unpatentable.

It is

> not a drug. They can't make a ton of money from it, so it's not

promoted.

> Natural progesterone is not routinely recommended, and most

ob/gyn's don't

> even bother to learn about it because they can't make money from it.

>

> Safe Estrogens - No Thanks

>

> It is the same with estrogen. There are safe, natural sources of

estrogen

> which could be recommended in place of drugs. Many plants have

safe, mild

> estrogen substances called phytoestrogens which are available to

the body

> in minute, physiologic doses, and which can be used to safely

supplement a

> declining estrogen output.

>

> Hormones are only needed and used by the body in tiny, very

transient

> amounts. Transient means they only have to be around for a second

or two. A

> physiologic dose would mean a natural hormone like a phytoestrogen

or a

> wild yam-derived progesterone in the same amount as what might be

produced

> by the body for its own needs.

>

> Natural hormones can be swiftly broken down after they have

performed their

> function. They don't just continue hour after hour like the

synthetics or

> the xenoestrogens, which are given in sledgehammer amounts called

> pharmacologic doses. Big difference.

>

> When the reality of this situation begins to sink in, it may sound

a little

> harsh at first. Can it really be that if it comes to a choice

between money

> and their patients' well-being, doctors will choose money most of

the time?

> We can't be too hard on them - they've incurred a lot of debt in

medical

> school.

>

> Lee and Lorraine Day, both medical doctors, well-respected in

their

> fields, excuse their colleagues' ignorance and indifference about

the value

> of natural progesterone by saying that the doctors are too busy with

> paperwork, hospital duties, and their own lives to have the time to

read

> anything outside the medical library.

>

> Since the medical journals in the medical library are very tightly

> controlled by the pharmaceutical companies, no natural non-drug

therapies

> are allowed to appear, especially one like progesterone which

actually does

> what synthetic estrogen is supposed to do, except with no side

effects. So

> they tell us not to be too hard on doctors, because the doctors

just don't

> know. So does that mean we should be forewarned that doctors are

primarily

> reps for the drug companies, because that's all they have managed

to learn?

>

> It's frightening that to make an informed decision about embarking

on any

> course of patentable drug therapy, these are the considerations

that must

> be undertaken. The more you learn about it, the more naïve you

realize you

> have been to have thought that things have ever been any other way.

>

> Cancer

>

> Since the beginning of estrogen drugs in the 1960s, the spectre of

cancer

> has always been there, lurking about in the shadows. That's why

progestins

> (synthetic progesterone) were added in the mid 1970s, changing ERT

to HRT.

> Original studies were shaky, and the majority of modern studies show

> conclusively that HRT significantly increases the risk of both

endometrial

> and breast cancer. Dr. Lee states flatly that HRT is the only known

cause

> of endometrial cancer! (Lee, p220)

>

> Abstracting ourselves for a moment away from citing 10 medical

studies

> which prove this point, just use your common sense. Let's go back

to the

> beginning of the chapter. What does natural estrogen do? Prepares

for

> reproduction. What tissues does it affect? Those tissues that what?

Right.

> Are rapidly dividing: endometrium, cervix, breast, ovaries. Now,

what is

> cancer? Very simply, cancer begins when a cell has lost its ability

to

> specialize, but not its ability to multiply, or proliferate.

>

> Or divide rapidly. A tumor is a group of cells multiplying rapidly

out of

> control, but unable to perform any life function. So therefore,

which

> tissues do you think have the greatest tendency to become

cancerous? Right

> - those which normally will tend to divide rapidly, like

endometrial and

> breast tissue.

>

> So estrogen and cancer have a lot in common from the get-go. Is it

really

> that much of a surprise that dozens of controlled medical studies

and

> research reviews have proven practically beyond dissent that HRT,

which is

> estrogen gone wild, can cause cancer? So would it be too

impertinent of me

> to pose the obvious: why is HRT still out there?

>

> Let's see, it doesn't do what it's supposed to do - control

menopause

> symptoms, it has no effect on osteoporosis and it's been proven

beyond a

> shadow of a doubt to be a frequent spark for cancer.

>

> The above-cited Boston Nurses Questionnaire Study involving over

121,000

> participants found that taking estrogen therapy alone for at least

ten

> years raised breast cancer risk by 40%. If they took progestins as

well

> (synthetic progesterone) that figure went to 100%! (Australian

Doctor, 29

> Aug 97, p3)

>

> A meta-analysis is when researchers compare several studies and

come up

> with a conclusion. In 1991 a meta-analysis of 16 separate studies

was

> written up in JAMA.. Their findings:

>

> " After 15 years of estrogen use, we found a 30% increase in the

risk of

> breast cancer.. "

> - Steinberg p1985 JAMA 1991

>

> Different studies, different numbers. How about this one, in

Sweden, from

> the New England Journal of Medicine, with over 23,000 women in the

sample

> group:

>

> " Overall we noted a 10% increase in the relative risk of breast

cancer for

> 23,334 women for whom estrogens were prescribed for

menopause. .this risk

> to increase with increased duration of treatment to an excess risk

of 70%

> in women with more than nine years of use. "

> - Bergkvist, p293 NEJM 3 Aug 89

>

> Fairly credible sample size.

>

> There are many other studies, but you can see where this is going.

These

> are the top medical journals in the U.S. Doctors know that HRT

causes

> breast cancer. Why is this happening? Just keep thinking about that

$1

> billion per year, and things will eventually come into focus.

That's a

> thousand million per year.

>

> Part 5

>

> Natural Non-Toxic Solutions

>

> Here are three holistic methods for reducing the incidence of

menopause

> annoyances:

>

> clean diet

>

> plant-sourced estrogens - Phytoestrogens

>

> natural progesterone cream

> 1. Diet

>

> Eat non-acidifying foods: raw fruits and vegetables, whole grains,

good

> stuff. Acidfying foods, fast foods, processed foods, white sugar,

hard fats

> - the usual culprits in most other disease patterns - once again

make their

> appearance. As explained above, estrogen dominance is promoted by a

> lifetime diet of these common foods. Stress and nutritional

deficiency

> deplete the adrenals, which deplete progesterone, which promotes

estrogen

> imbalance, which causes symptoms of menopause.

>

> Normally estrogen should just cycle through the body once and then

be

> broken down in the liver. High fat content in the diet prevents such

> breakdown and allows estrogen to go around a second time, promoting

all the

> above-mentioned imbalances. (McDougall, p87)

>

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> Please also read Dr. Mecola's food choice program

>

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> 2. Phytoestrogens

>

> Raw whole foods, fruits, vegetables, soy products contain mild

amounts of

> natural estrogens which circumvent the rollercoaster imbalance most

women

> experience. If phytoestrogens are part of the lifestyle prior to

menopause,

> there will not be such a radical drop when the body begins to

downshift

> away from the demands of always preparing for reproduction. In a

study done

> in Paris in the early 1990s, a physiologist significantly lowered

estrogen

> levels in the sample group simply by changing from a high fat, high

sugar

> diet to a more natural diet of fruits and vegetables. (Vines)

>

> Phytoestrogens also appear in a variety of herbs, including black

cohosh,

> alfalfa, pomegranate, and licorice.

>

> 3. Natural Progesterone

>

> By now you should know that progesterone drops to zero at

menopause. If

> estrogen levels have been high all along, problems begin to arise

when the

> sister hormone progesterone is no longer around to keep things in

balance.

>

> In the past few years, several doctors have found that natural

progesterone

> cream can take up the slack both before menopause, in the case of

the

> stress-challenged woman, and after menopause, in the case of the

less

> stressed woman who has incorporated natural phytoestrogen foods

into her

> lifestyle. Both can benefit from the regulating influence of natural

> estrogen in small food-bound doses. Physiologic doses.

>

> Dr. Lee has organized most of the pertinent information about the

clinical

> effects of natural progesterone cream. Osteoporosis, heart disease,

breast

> cancer, endometrial cancer, hot flashes, dryness, skin shrivelling

are

> routinely avoided completely by the daily use of this simple natural

> lotion. On p 271 of his book, Dr. Lee has a list of products which

contain

> natural progesterone in a usable form.

>

> The reader is directed to What You Doctor May Not Tell You About

Menopause

> for the complete story on progesterone. I don't think it's an

exaggeration

> to say that if you are a woman you can't afford to skip his book.

>

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> CAUTION: Please be sure to read Dr. Mercola's warning on

progesterone cream

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>

> I realize the information in this chapter may be a bit overwhelming,

> especially if you are hearing it for the first time. This is not

light

> reading. But it's worth the effort if you are considering a major

step like

> beginning hormone therapy, or birth control pills, to inform

yourself.

>

> The attached references would be your next step in verifying what I

have

> suggested in these few short pages. If you only choose one, I would

> recommend Lee's book, as it is the most comprehensive review of

> current literature on the topic of natural hormone therapy.

>

> We are taught to be too trusting of medicine, to a degree that it

doesn't

> merit. Almost two hundred prescription drugs come and go every

year. Why

> would that be, if they really worked? What happened to thalidomide,

> fen-phen, seldane, DES, and a thousand others? What happened to the

people

> who took them, thinking they were safe?

>

> Misled and misinformed by the forces of big business, American

women find

> themselves far afield of a rational outlook on menopause, in tune

with

> Nature's intentions. Incessant advertising and mental conditioning

has

> successfully programmed the public's hard disk into regarding

menopause as

> a disease absolutely requiring treatment, even in the absence of

symptoms.

> Such a perspective is the creation of the marketplace and is not

even

> supported by the most conservative and credible of medical

authorities.

>

> " Menopause is a natural rite of passage and should not be treated

as a

> disease. "

> - Betty Kamen, PhD HRT, p 239

>

> " Menopause is not a disease. I t is a natural biological process

that has

> gone awry in some women because of less than optimum environment. "

> Lee p 279

> Life Is Such A Pill

>

> The foregoing information also applies for most birth control

pills. Most

> are synthetic steroid hormones which artificially prevent

ovulation. The

> lie is, the Pill will " regulate periods. " The truth is the

menstrual flow

> is artificial, occurring only because the Pill was withheld for one

week

> per month.

>

> Normal menstruation is the result of the cyclic dynamic between

natural

> estrogen and natural progesterone. With contraceptives, the flow is

just a

> result of a clumsy, sledgehammer approach to " managing " one small

aspect of

> an imponderably complex bio-system.

>

> Long term, such a course is foolish, as it has the same pattern of

side

> effects as listed above: coronary artery disease, breast cancer,

> endometrial cancer, strokes, high blood pressure, liver dysfunction,

> respiratory allergies, digestive disorders, depression, blood clots,

> osteoporosis, and weight gain. (Sellman, p78) This is sexual

freedom?

> Sounds more like slavery to me.

>

> The Problem With Coffee

>

> Most people realize that coffee has no real food value, but they

figure it

> won't kill them. And the idea of getting going in the morning

without

> coffee would be unthinkable after all these years. Many would

probably

> choose death over withdrawal. You've might even know someone like

that.

>

> So why are we talking about coffee in a chapter about HRT? Simple:

it's in

> the loop. Both are locked into the biochemical choreography of the

swirling

> hormones which blink in and out of existence every second. Adrenals,

> thyroid, and ovaries are not three separate and independent

entities.

> They're more like three instruments in an orchestra, or three

ingredients

> in a cake, or three members of a yacht crew: change any one and the

whole

> outcome is threatened.

>

> Coffee is an adrenal stimulator. So are white sugar, a leopard in

your

> living room, and the morning commute. The adrenal hormones trigger

the

> fight-or-flight thing, a leftover from the earlier days of our

species'

> evolution. Stress. Like from modern, empty foods, toxic exposure,

and

> emotional worry - you know the list - which send constant messages

to the

> adrenal glands.

>

> The message is : either prepare me for battle or get me out of

here. Now if

> you have a friend who calls you on the phone fifty times a day

because

> there's an emergency, pretty soon you won't get so worked up about

the next

> call. Same with the adrenals. Only it's probably closer to several

hundred

> calls a day, if you're in Silicon Valley, or any metropolitan

American

> city. After awhile the adrenal glands get fried, depleted, out of

gas, used

> up.

>

> As the most evolved system in the universe, the body's got back-up

plans

> for everything. And the first of the Plan B's for spent adrenal

glands is

> to convert another hormone into adrenal hormone, thereby taking the

burden

> off the adrenals themselves. Guess which hormone is first on the

list for

> this understudy duty? Right: progesterone. Remember, progesterone

is the

> precursor, or basic raw material, for all the steroid hormones (see

above

> chart).

>

> So for many women who are really stressed and have been for years,

they are

> relying in large measure upon alternative sources of adrenal

hormones. With

> progesterone being the first of the volunteers to be changed into

adrenal

> hormones, this leaves little or no progesterone left to perform its

primary

> function, which was what?

>

> Right again, to maintain the dynamic balance with estrogen. The

result:

> further promotion of estrogen dominance, which you know all about,

from the

> above pages.

>

> Sumption, the nutritionist cited above, lists the B-complex

vitamins that

> are depleted by coffee - the same ones that are depleted by

estrogen.

> Without B vitamins, the body is drained of energy.

>

> Coffee does not give you energy; coffee gives you the illusion of

energy.

> Coffee actually drains the body of energy and makes you more tired,

because

> of vitamin and adrenal depletion. What is the number one symptom

that the

> most people have?

>

> Give up?

>

> Fatigue is the what more Americans have than any other daily

complaint.

> Many people don't sleep at night as much as collapse from simple

> exhaustion. A sign of this is when you wake up in the morning

exhausted,

> not refreshed. The body is tired from all that repair work it had

to do

> while you were asleep.

>

> There is no feeling of waking refreshed and renewed. So what do we

do, to

> crank it up one more time? Coffee. Decaf? I don't think so. It's

not the

> taste that you're addicted to. Decaf causes the same overwrought

cycle of

> fatigue in a different way. Any coffee is a metabolic burden that

has to be

> dealt with. It contributes nothing to nutrition - no vitamins, no

minerals,

> no enzymes. Beats up the adrenals, uses up progesterone, promotes

estrogen

> dominance. And now you know what that means.

>

> There are at least two different ways that coffee contributes to

osteoporosis:

>

> promotes estrogen dominance

>

> raises the acidity in the blood

> We've already seen how estrogen dominance leads to osteoporosis.

With

> acidifying of the blood, calcium is pulled from bones and teeth in

order to

> keep the blood from becoming too acid. This is called buffering - a

basic

> survival mechanism.

>

> The increased rate of hip fractures with coffee intake was clearly

shown in

> a 1995 study in New England J Med (Cummings) Another study in

American

> Journal of Clinical Nutrition of over 85,000 nurses showed three

times the

> rate of hip fractures in the group who drank the most coffee.

Promotion of

> osteoporosis from coffee is not just a theory.

>

> Hypothyroid? Guess Again.

>

> The thyroid, the adrenals, and the ovaries. Closely connected, in a

> thousand ways. Another award-winning snap misdiagnosis of the 90s

has been

> " hypothyroidism. " To push Synthroid, a powerful thyroid mimicker,

many

> women are told they are thyroid deficient, for the flimsiest of

reasons.

>

> Fatigue is the usual complaint. Obesity is another.

>

> A borderline thyroid level in one blood test is enough to trigger a

> lifetime of problems, starting with a prescription for Synthroid.

Perhaps

> the thyroid levels were just temporarily low when the blood sample

was

> taken. Perhaps the thyroid was a little sluggish.

>

> Doctors have known for years that iodine is necessary for a

functioning

> thyroid. Do doctors recommend that safe mineral supplement first

before

> trying the overpowering drug Synthroid? Never. Most doctors don't

even look

> at blood levels of thyroid hormones at all; but diagnose

hypothyroidism by

> symptoms only! (Lee, p147)

>

> No matter; once Synthroid is served up every day, your thyroid's

going

> night-night. And your problems are just beginning, because you're

now

> aboard the Drug Express. To say nothing of the hormonal confusion

that is

> now created when every molecular message that the other glands send

to the

> thyroid system requesting an answer is ignored.

>

> Empirically, who gets diagnosed hypothyroid, women or men? Let's

see, why

> would that be?

>

> Thyroid and estrogen are natural antagonists: opposite effects.

Thyroid

> builds bone, estrogen stimulates bone loss. Thyroid stimulates

metabolism

> and burns fat; estrogen stores fat. With estrogen dominance, thyroid

> function is inhibited, causing lower thyroid activity.

>

> This doesn't necessarily mean the thyroid can't do its job, like

the doctor

> presumes. It just means with all the excess estrogen in the picture,

> thyroid hormone is kept in the background - another one of the

body's

> give-and-take feedback loops, about which we know so little. Again

the

> sledgehammer arrogance comes barging onto the scene with the

pretense that

> synthetic thyroid hormone - Synthroid - is going to " fix the

problem. "

>

> Check out the psychology here: consider the motivation for being

diagnosed

> hypothyroid situation.

>

> 1. The doctor is motivated because the patient is signing up for a

life on

> Synthroid

> 2. The patient is ready to believe it because her overeating and

obesity

> are not her fault: it's a hormone imbalance.

>

> Is that what 'codependent' means?

>

> Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

>

> - another carnival of disinformation. Chronic fatigue is almost

always a

> result of simple toxemia - blood poisoning - from years of the

> indigestible, devitalizing American " foods of commerce. " (Tilden)

This is

> self-evident to any holistic healer. Never missing a trick to sell

powerful

> drugs, medicine offers Synthroid to the rescue. Not only does it

never work

> for chronic fatigue, Synthroid whips the condition to a new level of

> exhaustion by adding a new toxin for the already worn-out liver and

blood

> to try and break down. It's like putting out a fire with starter

fluid.

>

> The Underlying Tragedy Of HRT

>

> All the horrific side effects and cancers and infertilities and

permanently

> damaged endocrine systems - all that aside - perhaps the most

invidious

> feature of HRT and its systematic enslavement of women is noted by

> Robbins:

>

> " the strategy. is to make women feel less confident in themselves,

for the

> more alienated from herself a woman becomes, the more susceptible

she is to

> the lure of the drugs.This is the mass marketing of self-

estrangement. "

> Reclaiming Our Health p140

>

> Robbins quotes Christiane Northrup, MD:

>

> " An entire generation of women is being brainwashed.Most women's

trust in

> their own bodies is almost nonexistent. "

>

> McDougall, MD agrees:

>

> " By adolescence, a great many young girls have come to believe that

their

> bodies are the problem. "

>

> - The McDougall Program, p17

>

> Unpopular Opinion

>

> You won't find the information in this chapter common knowledge.

Your

> doctor probably won't be aware of it. It's unlikely that you will

see an ad

> for natural progesterone in Time or Newsweek any time soon.

>

> The devolving literacy in the U.S., the dumbing down of a people,

is no

> accident. Any knowledge that fuels the idea that people can be

responsible

> for their own health is systematically suppressed, in a hundred

ways. You

> are already in the vast minority just by finishing this chapter.

It's not

> the homogenized " readable " copy you're used to.

>

> The glossing over of the side effects and the same tired images of

HRT as

> the savior of women from the clutches of wrinkly old age - this

pitch is

> still out there, coming across in hundreds of ways, every day. Those

> millions in advertising are not being wasted.

>

> So What?

>

> This chapter has just skimmed the surface of the topic of hormone

therapy.

> I hope you don't believe anything you've just read. Disprove it,

starting

> with the appended references. The two most organized are Dr. Lee's

book

> What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Menopause, and Sellman's

book

> Hormone Heresy..

>

> If you're taking estrogen or birth control pills now or considering

it, you

> can become more informed about the subject than your doctor, by

reading

> what the real experts say. Few women are actually given a choice.

> Menopause? Oh, time for estrogen pills. End of story. With life-

threatening

> side effects like these, it's worth the effort to be informed.

>

> The unpleasant side effects of menopause can be minimized or

eliminated by

> diet, herbs, and natural supplementation, as noted above. Dangerous

> unproven pharmacologics hardly seem worth the risk.

>

> Hormone Replacement Therapy is a phrase right out of Brave New World

> mentality. Why? Because it's not hormones, it doesn't replace

anything, and

> it's definitely not therapeutic. The only thing getting replaced is

the

> drug trust's investment.

>

> " The ritualization of the stages of life is nothing new. What is

new is

> their intense medicalization. Lifelong medical supervision.turns

life into

> a series of periods of risk. "

> - Medical Nemesis p 78

>

> Perhaps life should just be lived, not supervised, risk-analyzed,

> amortized, or ritualized.

>

> References

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>

> Data Shows Hormone Replacement Therapy Harmful

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