Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 To me the analogy of hormone replacement therapy -- when your body is symptomatic through normal hormonal transitions -- it's telling you something. For me it would be like you being really irritated because this building was on fire. And it wasn't the heat, it was just the fire alarm going off. hormone replacement therapy, to me, is like going over and clipping that wire to the fire alarm. It's like, "Oh, I am so relieved." The problem is you have a mechanism going on. You have an estrogen-dominant -- most likely -- situation going on, and that's harmful. Why? Because -- what's on the rise? |
| First of all, all of these women were being treated with one form or another of hormone replacement therapy, whether it be just standard HRT moving into menopause -- the number one treatment option -- or the birth control pill if they had an increase in PMS symptoms or ovarian cysts. And they weren't getting any better, and we were starting to understand the literature that not only said the risk factors were increasing, but these medications were doing more harm than good.
So, number one: We live in an incredibly toxic environment and an increasingly toxic environment. |
| I've got to play devil's advocate for a second because conventional medicine says all you need is hormone replacement therapy. It's the fountain of youth, and you'll be forever young. You won't have any hormone problems.
Lucille: Right.
Mike: But now we know that's hogwash, right?
Lucille: Well, first of all, here's my question, I guess, back to conventional medicine -- which I adore and love, and there's a lot of reasons why I want conventional medicine to continue to evolve and get better and better at what they do -- but from this perspective: What are we replacing? |
| And it wasn't the heat, it was just the fire alarm going off. hormone replacement therapy, to me, is like going over and clipping that wire to the fire alarm. It's like, "Oh, I am so relieved." The problem is you have a mechanism going on. You have an estrogen-dominant -- most likely -- situation going on, and that's harmful. Why? Because -- what's on the rise? Breast cancer's on the rise. Breast cancer continues to be on the rise, not only for women, but for men. Prostate cancer -- estrogen-sensitive tissue.
Mike: Sure.
Lucille: So we need to step back and identify and treat the cause. |
Dawson Church
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 For instance, conventional hormone replacement therapies have been shown to have negative side effects in the ten years since Weil penned this list (the National Women's Health Network calls hormone replacement "a triumph of marketing over science"11), while alternative medicine, through exercise and diet-based approaches, plus supplementation if necessary, have been shown to stimulate the body's hormonal production and balance. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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Andreas Moritz
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 It is especially pronounced among women who have used or use birth control pills and hormone replacement therapy (HRT). According to medical research, oral contraceptives and other estrogens double a woman's chance of developing gallstones. The female hormone, estrogen, which is contained in contraceptive pills and hormone replacements, increases bile cholesterol and decreases gallbladder contraction. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| Regrettably, there is little th-done about this other than using various types of hormone replacement tbfrohtwork based hormone replacement (phytoestrogens), which you can get Dvim4\ng more water, food or drinks. a Keeping your liquid
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Mark Sircus
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 Like animals lured into a snare by a trail of crumbs, women have been cajoled with scientific studies, media advertising, patient hand books and drug samples to accept hormone replacement Therapy as a magic potion.
Sherill Sellman
Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT) does not do justice to the finely tuned hormone system2 that operates throughout a woman's life. In reality, hormone levels may begin to change in the 30s, as a woman enters a period called perimenopause. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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 Women were flocking to their doctors asking them what to do with their hormone replacement therapy. The headlines in the newspapers across the country suggested that important, new information had come to light on the use of conventional hormones.
Since the WHI made such an impact nationwide, the question to ask is: What were the new findings in the WHI that made so many women and their physicians question the benefits of taking conventional hormone replacement therapy?
The answer to the above question can be summed up in one word: nothing. |
| The increased risk for cardiac events associated with conventional hormone replacement therapy has been reported in many different studies.
In a landmark article in 1998, researchers reported increased cardiovascular events in the conventional hormone-treated group as compared to a controlled group that took a placebo. The American Heart Association came out against using conventional hormone replacement therapy for the sole reason of preventing future heart attacks. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 The Risk of hormone replacement Therapy
Traditionally, moderate to severe menopausal complaints have been managed with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) using synthetic hormones. This is absolutely not the place to get into the enormous controversy generated by preliminary findings from the Women's Health Initiative that reported a slightly increased risk of heart attacks and breast cancer for women on HRT. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Cimicifuga racemosa should not be substituted for hormone replacement therapy with estrogen. There is no information to date that the herb contains cardioprotective effects or protective effects against osteoporosis.
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Safety beyond use for 6 months is not yet determined (Hickey, 2005). Although no serious health hazards were reported in conjunction with the proper administration of designated therapeutic dosages, there are adverse events associated with the use of Black Cohosh, including gastroenteritis, nausea, and vomiting. |
| Patients were excluded from the study if they were using hormone replacement therapy with estrogens or estrogen-progestogen combinations. The Menopause Rating Scale (MRS) (including changes in libido, dryness of the vagina, and urinary complaints) ranked symptoms from "not present" to "very marked." The average total MRS score fell from marked intensity of symptoms to slight intensity after 12 weeks of St. John's Wort treatment (p<0.001) (Grube et al, 1999). |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 Benefits and risks of hormone replacement therapy need to be discussed with a health-care provider familiar with up-to-date research on this topic. ability of platelets to clump together, elevate levels of fibrinogen (a clot-forming protein), and elevate the blood pressure. Smoking is especially problematic in women who use oral contraceptives. This combination increases the risk of CVD by up to 39 times due to blood clots.42 The good news is that women who stop smoking can reduce their risk of CVD to that of a nonsmoker within two years of quitting. |
| Natural (Bio-Identical) hormone replacement Therapy
Whether a woman should go through the menopausal years without hormone therapy or whether she should use bio-identical or conventional hormone therapy is a complex decision. The decision is especially difficult when one considers the many unanswered questions about menopause, cardiovascular disease, and natural and conventional hormones. The method I follow is to systematically evaluate each woman with a thorough medical history, physical exam, and laboratory testing. |
| CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE APPROACH
There is still much that is unknown about cardiovascular disease, hormone replacement, and the aging process in women. The results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) have dramatically changed how HRT has been prescribed in this country. It is no longer routinely prescribed to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, as it was for over 30 years. The approach now is much more individualized, and there is still lack of agreement if the timing of when HRT is started impacts its influence on cardiovascular disease. |
Shannon Brownlee
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 In the latter part of the twentieth century, dozens of common treatments, including the tonsillectomy, the hysterectomy, the frontal lobotomy the radical mastectomy, arthroscopic knee surgery for arthritis, X-ray screening for lung cancer, proton pump inhibitors for ulcers, hormone replacement therapy for menopause, and high-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer, to name just a few, have ultimately been shown to be unnecessary, ineffective, more dangerous than imagined, or sometimes more deadly than the diseases they were intended to treat. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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| This study also showed that depression and anxiety scores were reduced to values below those of perimenopausal women when the women took hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Women who take estrogen alone seem to do best mood-wise, compared to women who take estrogen plus synthetic progestogens, called progestins.18
Mood changes may not be as prominent as depression or anxiety. Many women are plagued by irritability, melancholy, weepiness, short temper, feeling overwhelmed, and a lower tolerance of stressors. Up to 10 percent of perimenopausal women experience mood changes. |
| It can also be very difficult to use the FSH test if women are on hormonal contraceptives or hormone replacement therapy (HRT or HT).
There is a recent popular notion that saliva or serum testing can be done to determine estrogen, progesterone, and testosterone levels or individual estrogen levels including estriol, estrone, and estradiol. However, saliva testing has yet to be proven accurate for the testing of these hormones, although the FDA has approved saliva tests for Cortisol and DHEA levels. I will focus my comments on blood serum testing. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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| A double-blind, placebo-controlled, crossover study was conducted on 16 healthy, weight-stable, non-smoking subjects, aged 21-55 years, with body mass index (BMI) of 20-30 kg/m2, and not taking any medications other than oral contraceptives or hormone replacement .therapy. Subjects had no caffeine for 48 hours, no exercise for 24 hours, and no food for 12 hours before each visit. Area under the curve (AUC) for resting metabolic rate (RMR), respiratory quotient (RQ), blood pressure, pulse rate, and temperature were measured. |
Erich Grotewold
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 Comparison of hormonal activity (estrogen, androgen and progestin) of standardized plant extracts for large scale use in hormone replacement therapy, J Steroid Biochem Mot Biol 84: 259-268. Becchi, M., and Fraisse, D., 1989, Fast atom bombardment collision-activated dissociation/mass-analysed ion kinetic energy analysis of C-glycosidic flavonoids, BiomedEnviron Mass Spectrom 18: 122-130. Bednarek, P., Franski, R., Kerhoas, L., Einhorn, J., Wojtaszek, P. |
David Brownstein M.D.
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| In fact, many other studies had already shown the negative influences conventional hormone replacement therapy had on cardiovascular disease, strokes, and other blood clots as well as cancer. However, this information was only available to those who carefully read these research reports. Reading the abstracts from these studies would not provide their true outcomes. The media often only parrots what Big Pharma wants them to report from these studies. Let's take a closer look at what some of these studies actually did show. |
| This study confirmed the earlier studies on the ineffectiveness of conventional hormone replacement therapy in preventing cardiovascular disease.
In addition, WHI showed that there was no benefit for stroke prevention. Instead, women who took conventional hormones had a 41% increased risk of stroke compared to women who did not take the hormones. It is even more alarming that a 2,100%) increased risk for pulmonary embolism was observed.
Breast Cancer
Perhaps the greatest downfall of conventional HRT was the finding that it caused an increased risk of breast cancer. |
Steven V. Joyal
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 If you are a perimenopausal or postmenopausal woman, hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is a controversial topic. The 2003 published results of the Women's Health Initiative (WHI) study, which used conjugated equine estrogens and synthetic progestogens (progestins), showed mixed results and raised a great number of questions. The WHI study results included evidence of an increase in the risk for breast cancer and heart disease, yet reduced the risk of hip fractures and colorectal cancer. |
Ron Garner
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 Estrogen dominance can arise as a result of many factors, including the intake of estrogen-like chemicals via our foods and environment, hormone replacement therapy, drugs such as birth control pills, improper diets, and prolonged stress. Associated health problems that can develop are: weight gain (mostly around the waist), decreased libido, anxiety, depression, lack of mental clarity, and lack of energy. Women can experience difficult menstrual periods, painful breasts, and cyclical mood swings. |
| In 2001 alone, one hormone replacement drug, Premarin, prescribed for many hormone related conditions, generated more than two billion dollars in sales.15 The human body cannot incorporate synthetic, unnatural substances into its tissues for optimum health.
Prostate and Male Midlife Problems
The prostate is a walnut-sized gland of the male reproductive system, located below the bladder and encircling the urethra. It helps control urination and produces a major component of semen. It depends on an adequate supply of nutrients and balanced hormones for its health. |
| The often used allopathic treatment for female hormonal problems is to prescribe synthetic estrogen hormone replacement therapy, hrt, which further increases estrogen dominance. The answer that Dr. Lee arrived at was to treat typical hormone problems with natural progesterone.
Estrogen Mimics
Other hormone disrupter problems in our society, in addition to synthetic hormones, are xenoestrogens or xenobiotics, which produce estrogen-like activity in the body. |
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