Hormone Replacement Therapy?

[Guest guest]

The MESO/Rx newsletter continues to provide interesting information. In its

July 26, 2002 issue it discusses the risks of hormone replacement therapy

that has begun to feature widely in the media recently.

http://www.meso-rx.com

Hormone Replacement Scandal: New Study Discredits Toxic Hormone Combination

by Karlis Ullis, M.D. and Shackman, Ph.D.

<http://www.meso-rx.com/articles/ullis/hormone-replacement-scandal.htm>

July 9, 2002 marked an historic date in medical history. In one of the

biggest scandals in medical history, government scientists shut down a study

on the most commonly used hormone replacement therapy used in the country.

These researchers concluded that it was no longer ethical to keep

administering the infamous Prempro hormone replacment drug combination to

post-menopausal women in a multi-center research study because it was

inflicting more harm than good.

This was an indeed an historic and scandalous event. Millions and millions of

women have been placed on this combination of Premarin and Provera

(Prempro), which are synthetic versions of the hormones estrogen (CEE:

conjugated equine-horse estrogens) and progesterone (MPA:

medroxyprogesterone acetate). Premarin has been around since 1942, and is

one of the most widely prescribed drugs in history. It was the single most

prescribed drug every year between 1992 and 1999 (1). Women were lead to

believe that they would live longer and healthier lives if they would take

Premarin or Prempro.

Doctors believed all the propaganda fed to them by the makers of these

drugs. But the recent decision by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood

Institute (NHLBI) and the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) to discontinue

this study supports what I have been saying for many years, that Premarin

and Provera are toxic and do more harm than good.

However, I am concerned that the media will misinterpret the results of this

study. Unfortunately, hormone replacement therapy is getting a bad name.

While I have been an opponent of the Premarin and Provera strategy for a

long time, there are safe and effective alternative hormone replacement

therapy programs that I have been using successfully in my private practice

for a long time. My own approach emphasizes natural, human bio-identical

hormones rather than toxic and synthetic drugs such as Premarin and Prempro.

In this article, I want to go over what the key implications of the

NHLBI/WHI study are, and give some guidelines for doctors and

post-menopausal women who are still interested in an alternative approach to

hormone replacement therapy.......

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Would anyone else care to share some other articles or references on this

topic, which affects all modern families?

Dr Mel C Siff

Denver, USA

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