Common myths associated with Hormone Replacement Therapy:
Testosterone
- Muscle bound.
- Personality changes.
- Cancer risks.
- Potentially addictive.
Truth is, when prescribed in physiologic doses and monitored consistently these risks are prevented.
The pressóand often medical publications give misleading information.
Truth is, the compounds described in the HRT article were synthetic or not ìnaturalî to the human body óis it any wonder that they fail to slow or retard disease?!
Letís examine several of the top selling drugs
like Premarin.
* Derived from PREgnant MAreís uRINe.
Contains Equine (horse) estrones, not the human estradiols or estriols that your body actually needs.
* Many adverse side effects.
* Better than nothing.
* Not for the discriminating, modern patient.
Pregnant mare urine collection stalls.
65,000 young horses are slaughtered annually as part of pregnant mare urine industry.
Hereís another popular drug called Provera
- Synthetic progestinónot a human progesterone.
- Many side effects.
- Does not affect in any measurable way your human progesterone levels.
Hereís a major drug called SYNTHROID - with a major ìproblem.î
Synthetic T4óand only T4, not the 10X more active and natural T3, or other important thyroid enzymes. Synthroid is used almost exclusively now ith the US.A. Synthroid's manufacturer was recently fined billions of $$$ by the FDA for falsification of the research documents 25 years ago; misrepresentations discovered too late. Big ì60 Minutesî story about the ìinaccuraciesî of manufacturerís research.
Why would major drug companies produce drugs or products that are synthetic or that have adverse side effects?
- Money.
Natural biologically identical human hormones ARE NOT patentable by drug companies!
No patent =No proprietary product =No profit! - Money.
To acquire and protect ìmarket shareî they make synthetics and then heavily promote their use by the medical community and the general public. Large market share ensures
high volume manufacturing = economy of scale = low per unit material and labor costs = high profit! - Money.
Many of the Fortune 500 Companies are pharmaceutically based. Back in the mid 1960ís the pharmaceutical industry contributed over $1.3 million dollars to the Wilson Foundation, which promoted estrogen replacement drugs like Premarin.