Several issues are relevant here.

First off, traditional medicine has some serious issues with their understanding of thyroid glandular replacements. Their reliance on synthetic alternatives has caused unnecessary incredible grief and suffering for millions of women.

So, even if the levels were monitored properly as suggested, most women would be given higher doses of an inferior hormone. Please note that the makers of Synthroid funded this article. They are currently in a heap of trouble as Synthroid may be pulled from the market in August.

Secondly, most postmenopausal women do NOT need estrogen. In my view the only women who should be placed on estrogen are those who have their ovaries removed. If a woman still has functioning ovaries her body has the potential to produce estrogen in sufficient quantities if other factors are normalized.

JAMA published a landmark article this week on this topic and I will post it next week.

As I said last year, if you still believe that estrogen is good for you, you have been brain washed by the traditional media. I would encourage you to review Dr. John Lee's excellent books on the topic. What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Premenopause : Balance Your Hormones and Your Life from Thirty to Fifty

These companies will use every trick in the book to get women to take these drugs which actually cause cancer. They tried to say that estrogen reduced Alzheimer's, but a few years later the results showed that it does not. The long held notion that estrogen reduces heart disease is just plain untrue.

One of the classic arguments that traditional medicine offers to convince women to begin or stay on estrogen therapy is osteoporosis prevention, heart disease prevention, and more recently the hope of prevention of Alzheimer's.

With 4 huge studies already showing no benefit, this avenue does not seem promising, at least with the synthetic progestin and horse-derived estrogen used. Maybe a more appropriate regimen of natural hormone replacement would show better results.

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