Summary
Estrogen was one the number one prescribed pill in the United States.
Tens of millions of women were put on Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT)
programs, generating literally billions of dollars in revenues for drug
companies. There's only one problem: the drugs have turned out to be
useless. That's right: all the hype, the promises, and the marketing
push about HRT drugs was nothing but profit-minded propaganda. Chalk it
up to just one more bad medicine sham pulled off by pharmaceutical
companies to convince tens of millions of consumers to part with their
dollars in exchange for dangerous drugs. What's so dangerous about HRT
drugs? They increase the risk of stroke. And, worse yet, they do nothing
to prevent osteoporosis. These conclusions are based on a study of
11,000 participants, and they've been widely covered in recent press.
There are two very large questions that come to mind when reading
about something like this. First, how did all the doctors in the country
get duped by the drug companies into prescribing a useless drug to tens
of millions of patients? That's a really important question to consider.
The answer is disturbing, but not at all surprising to those who
regularly read this site: the initial studies were distorted, the drug
companies hyped the benefits completely out of proportion to the
scientific evidence, the medical journals hyped up the drug to appease
their advertisers (the drug companies), and doctors were so frequently
told the drug was a miracle cure that they believed it. What's
hilarious about all this is that most doctors mistakenly think they are
rational, scientific minded individuals who would never fall for
unproven hype. They frequently attack nutritional supplements, medicinal
herbs and other "alternative" therapies on that very basis: "it's
unproven!" they scream. Yet, in reality, the vast majority of Western
medicine is not only unproven, but fraudulently hyped. There really was
no good scientific evidence backing HRT drugs, but that didn't stop a
few hundred thousand doctors from lining up to prescribe it. Worse yet,
the vast majority of surgical procedures have never been proven
effective at their intended outcome either. (Surgical procedures do not
have to be "proven" to be routinely performed.) So much for the
"rational scientist," huh? Truth be told, most M.D.s ultimately play
the role of drug pushers for pharmaceutical companies. They dole out
whatever drug is popular, regardless of its scientific merit. It's not
that they intend to harm patients or help out the drug companies, it's
that pro-drug information is the only information they're exposed to.
They never see the other side of the story. Medical schools are largely
prescription drug reeducation camps where would-be physicians are
indoctrinated into a pro-drug belief system. The second big question
that comes to mind on all this is: how can women prevent osteoporosis
without dangerous (or useless) prescription drugs? And the answer to
that is actually quite simple: nutrition and physical exercise. In
the nutrition camp, preventing osteoporosis is easy. One of the first
things you need to do is get plenty of sunshine. That's "light
nutrition" for you noobs out there. Yes, you need to soak up some
sunlight to have strong bones. It's all about the role of Vitamin D and
bone calcification. Women also need to stop drinking acidic drinks that
deplete bone mass: drinks like coffee and soft drinks. Every time you
drink a soft drink, you end up peeing away some bone mass due to the
high acidity of the beverage (your body buffers the acid with calcium
from your own bones). Further, women need to start eating natural plant
sources of calcium, magnesium, zinc and other macrominerals. The best
sources are superfoods like chlorella, or fresh organic fruits and
vegetables. A glass of broccoli juice has more calcium than a glass of
cow's milk, by the way. Perhaps the best benefits for preventing and
even reversing osteoporosis come from physical exercise. Here's why: the
body will only build bone density when bones are subjected to stress. In
other words, if you put a person in a weightless environment where their
bones don't experience the forces of gravity, their bones will start to
turn to mush. You see this with astronauts who hang out in orbit too
long: they come back to planet Earth and can hardly walk. Back on Earth,
however, their bones quickly regain lost bone mass through walking and
regular exercise. And that's all it takes. Older women are notorious
for avoiding exercise. They largely refuse to engage in much-needed
strength training, for one thing, which is actually the very best
exercise for increasing bone mass. They don't want to walk, jog, or
swim. They just sit on their duffs and complain about prescription drug
costs. If they'd get off their cranky old asses and actually start
moving, they wouldn't need those prescription drugs in the first place!
Truly, physical exercise prevents osteoporosis better than any
prescription drug. If there's a "miracle" in the anti-osteoporosis
world, it's something called lifting weights. Grab a couple of
dumbells (that's all you really need) and start pumping away. Your bones
will automatically increase their density without you having to do
anything else. It's a biological law. Too bad doctors won't prescribe
exercise programs for their patients. Well, a few do. The good doctors
do. But most don't bother. And, of course, drug companies have
absolutely no interest in people getting physically fit. In fact, that
would cause them to lose paying customers! The real lesson about HRT
drugs, though, is that the HRT sham was just one example of a system
gone awry. There are many more sham drugs on the market right now, sold
to unsuspecting customers, prescribed by unwitting doctors, and hyped by
an organized medical system of pro-drug propaganda that thrives on
public consumption of these chemicals, regardless of their scientific
merit. In fact, I believe the vast majority of prescription drugs on the
market are not only useless, but extremely harmful. The HRT sham was
only a small taste of revelations yet to come for Western medicine.
Original source:
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Details
- The National Institutes of Health announced that women who received
estrogen alone for seven years experienced only one health benefit, a
reduced risk of hip fracture.
- The federally funded study, known as the Women's Health Initiative, is
a landmark in the ongoing puzzlement over the role of hormone therapy in
major chronic illnesses that disable and kill women.
- There's wide agreement that hormones are an effective and appropriate
treatment for the hot flashes and other symptoms that bother some women
during the years when their periods are stopping.
- Estrogen alone has certainly emerged from the Women's Health
Initiative looking better than combined estrogen/progestin therapy.
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