Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

Debrah — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 02:49:33 GMT

I agree with oneclicker--the conditions mares are kept in are horrible--I do believe in karma and it cannot be good karma to take products that are so cruel to other beings. I am NOT a vegan--I do eat animal products, just those from farms where they get to live a normal happy animal life(running around on a pasture as they are supposed to! I use Bioidentical hormones in a creme form--Tri-est which is 90% Estradial, 5 % Estrone and 5% Estriol, I am also supposed to use the Progesterone for 10 days but can only use it for about 5 as I start getting PMS symptoms. I too agree with someone who wrote that so many natural Drs are too concerned about Estrogen dominince. Many of us are low on bio-identical Estrogen but too high in Estrogen mimicing chemicals from environment or food. i am not a scientist but wonder what those of you who are, on this site think of this idea of mine: when our receptors are clogged up with the chemicals mimicing estrogen then our natural estrogen has no place to attach to thus we start having all the awful symptoms? So maybe natural estrogen is necessary even if one is estrogen dominant?I know that a healthy diet has helped me but still need some extra help. No matter how healthy we eat there are still many chemicals in our environment we cannot avoid. Also I like the creme form of hormones as I can control how much I use--I use just enough to keep my symptoms at bay. I thought it was funny(ironic) when I heard a speaker at a seminar on menopause say he preferred women to use pills or patches as he could control the amount!! some days I need more and some less--of course I am very sensitve to my body so it works for me. Debrah

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

MarthaS — Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:26:16 GMT

A couple of comments from a pharmacist who has come away from 20+ years of practicing on the dark side: I spend most of my time educating patients about symptomatic treatments which are increasingly resulting in - at best - a poorer quality of life. As a compounding pharmacist who now specializes in therapeutic lifestyle changes and human identical hormone (including thyroid and adrenal) replacement therapy, allow me to share a few of my educated observations. Most women who suffer loss of ovarian function via surgical intervention or from poor lifelong dietary choices resulting in PCOS or the like, will not experience extraordinarily low estradiol levels via saliva testing (which I prefer as it more accurately reflects tissue levels of bio-available hormones). These women typically already have higher than normal estrogen levels which have resulted in endometriosis, heavy bleeding, fibrocystic breasts, etc., and will feel worse when the estrogen load is increased. In these cases, I see tissue progesterone, DHEA-S and testosterone levels lowered or dramatically decline, with estrogen excess symptoms. If adrenal function is also less than sufficient, symptoms will be more pronounced, because the adrenals are our back-up source for these hormones. When these are low and cortisol is chronically high, bone loss then becomes a significant, secondary risk. ALWAYS - ALWAYS - I stress how important dietary influences are - this is where, individually, our best and first hope resides, utilizing human identical hormone replacement in physiologic doses only when appropriate. Get a hormone profile of estradiol, progesterone, testosterone, DHEA-S and cortisol!

Synthetic estrogens and progestins also decrease hormone receptors and can result in hormone "deficiency" symptoms and actual nutritional deficiences because of their metabolic pathways - they are the worst choice for post-surgery or peri- and post-menopausal HRT - or contraception - for so many reasons!

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

morganna713 — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 22:04:33 GMT

I would love to know what product Dr. Mercola is referencing regarding the natural progesterone. If you click on the blue "natural progesterone" it takes you to another article that talks of an under the tongue pill. I am taking such a product, given to me by my homeopath and would like to know if its the same one.

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

saynotoquacks — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 21:15:26 GMT

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thanks Dr. M. for not being foolishly consistent, and for seeking and sharing the Truth.

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

Hands on Therapy — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 19:10:10 GMT

Thank you, Dr. Mercola, for making the distinction in your writing about HRT between the synthetic equine estrogens and the estrodiol. I've been on HRT for 7 years now and it's made a huge difference in the quality of my life. After the study in 2002, I had many, many friends tell me about the risk I was taking by using HRT. In fact my physician never uses anything but bio-identical hormones and cautions against the use of equine estrogens as do you. I've also been dismayed by the almost cavalier attitude of some physicians that every reproductive hormone problem is "estrogen dominance". This was not my case and I really suffered before I found a doc that correctly diagnosed my low estrogen problem. I continue to seek nutritional support, but with one ovary and at the age of 53, I think I might need HRT to feel optimal. Thank you. Marlee, Tucson

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T_rex — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 18:53:44 GMT

It's refreshing to learn that Dr. Mercola is a "REFORMED BRAINWASHED PHYSICIAN" whose interest in the TRUTH prompted him to found this website dedicated to blow the whistle on the fraudulent nature of the drug-based medical system espoused to the evil pharmacological kartel. Let's give Dr. Mercola a big round of applause !

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

oneclikker — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:27:33 GMT

Nothing has been said so far of the horrible conditions of the poor horses that are used to make Premarin. In case you don't know, I will fill you in. The mares that are used are kept confined in stalls so that their urine can be collected. On top of that, they are pregnant mares. This is obviously not a natural environment for any horse to be kept in much less a pregnant mare. Once the foal is born, if it is a male it is of no use so it is gotten rid of. The females may or may not be kept to be used in the operation. The mare is then bred again, because it is made from "pregnant mare urine" (hence the name). This produces a surplus of unwanted animals that many times end up going to slaughter.

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

Seadog — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 16:07:27 GMT

What about hormone therepy for men with prostate cancer?

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MaryAlice — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 15:35:52 GMT

One suggestion I haven't seen mentioned is to consult a Naturopathic physician (ND). I have been fortunate to be a patient of one for over 10 years; she has brought me back from a very toxic liver due to the chemical exposure from being a hairdresser for 30 years. When we first addressed the subject of natural hormone replacement, Chaste Tree Berry was all my body required for balance. No two bodies are alike! I now take the bioidentical estrogen, but don't (yet - if ever) require progesterone or testosterone!. For those of you who understand energy work, she can also tune in to your body, so can assist you over the phone. I know, some of you will be rolling your eyes - I was skeptical 10 years ago, but so desperate to get well and out of the brain washing of the allopathic system - that I went this route. I contribute my health to her. If anyone would like her name and number, contact me privately.

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Janet Senior — Sat, 13 Oct 2007 10:48:13 GMT

I am 61 now at the age of 28 I was diagnosed with 7 blood clots in my lungs caused by the contraceptive pill as I was very fit and a dancer my specialist told me never to go on the pill again for the rest of my life and when I get to old age and reach menopause NEVER go on HRT he was quite strong about it as he was pointing his finger in my face as he was saying it. I thought to myself by the time I get that old they will have better stuff out than HRT? DHA! So I new I would never go down that road and as I became a health practitioner in alternative treatment that is what I looked for and at the age of 55 BOOM! it hit me now at 61 I have just found out I have Hashimoto's disease I thought i was having hot flushes due to menopause and I new they where lingering to long I should have been well over it by now it turns out it's my thyroid blood tests saliva tests had em all why do doctors not test the thyroid more often its a known fact women after the age of 55 suffer from low thyroid and they don't know they have it! its always put down to menopause. The key is to get the t4 and t3 tested since being diagnosed it's like I have a new lease on life and I'm not going mad I am not on medication eather just supplement and good food and exercise which i have been doing for years yet the last 2 years getting more and more low energy lethargy and whole lot of other symptoms and Doctor after doctor test after test kept saying menopause until one lady Doctor who is a nutritionist and takes 1 hour appointments said lets get your thyroid checked. So it will take awhile I have been taking my special thyroid supplements now for 6 weeks hot sweats have been reduced by 1/4 and memory and energies is slowly coming back feeling heaps better.

Janet Australia... ITS NOT ALWAYS MENOPAUSE!!

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

Blobby — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 20:16:10 GMT

Elaine Hollingsworths book TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH AND ESCAPE THE SICKNESS INDUSTRY has some EXCELLENT information about HRT.
I highly recommend it as it is completely BULLSHIT FREE!!!

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

mnmgirls — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:55:56 GMT

I was on hormone replacement therapy for 16 years and have been seeing the same Doctor for the last 7 years of the 16, every year I went in to get my new prescription and never once in that 7 years was anything ever mentioned about the new risk findings or maybe a possible alternative. It seems to me they run you through like cattle and can't be brothered with taking the time to talk to you after all time is $$$$ and you are given a ten minute time frame to visit with you Doctor ( I was told that by my Doctor) and finished or not make another appointment. Shopping around for a new Doctor is very expensive and usually ends up the with the same situation. So whom do you trust the Doctor??? The drug company???? The FDA??? My thought is you go it alone most of the time and hope to God you can draw the right conclusion from all the stuff out there.

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junebug24 — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 16:56:52 GMT

What is a woman to do I am 60 and have never been on HRT but I am
tired of the hot flashes, I have had them for 15 years and need slept.
nothing works for me. Help

re: Do YOU Understand the Dangers of Hormone Therapy?

seg — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:10:48 GMT

Just as i suspected a drug cartel (GSK) had funded the study.

I wonder what would have been the outcome if "NATURAL" hormone replacement was used, and how was the subjects tested, i'm assuming the replacement hormone used was synthetic (GSK PROVIDED) and no wonder the results.....hmmmmm.

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Magnolia — Fri, 21 Sep 2007 23:29:03 GMT

This information needs to be disseminated on a regular basis to women. Just reporting on it once and expecting that everyone got the message is a bit naive. Anyone who has ever taught a class of any sort has had the experience of repeating the same thing several times, only to have a percentage of the students completely miss the repeated information.

Also, as time passes, new young women will be coming into the picture. These will not have heard the news stories of just a few years ago.

Vital Votes can be instrumental in sending a steady, accurate, and trustworthy message to these new readers. Pass it on.