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When I was in medical school and residency, I was taught that estrogen
replacement therapy did not cause weight gain. I was told that for
female patients who are post-menopausal, osteoporosis is inevitable. I
was told that Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) should be recommended
for most women after menopause.
As a practicing physician I soon learned that all of that was wrong. Not
only wrong, it was dangerously wrong.
The truth came with time, it came with the breakthrough research of Dr.
Lee, it came with treating thousands of women in my own clinic, and with
six years of study, charting and follow-ups.
For years I have been actively treating symptoms normally treated with
HRT with Natural Progesterone Cream. This cream I found relieves many
symptoms related to PMS, pre-menopause, menopause, post-hysterectomy,
osteoporosis, breast cancer, infertility, migraines, acne, skin care,
menstrual irregularity and cramps.
Everything that HRT once claimed to do, only without the side-effects.
Using Natural Progesterone Cream you can replace the female human
hormones with identical hormones in a balanced fashion. I have been
treating women for years in this manner with excellent results.
Why would any Doctor put women on a regimen of synthetic estrogen or
synthetic progestin for the rest of their lives? Why subject them to
weight gain, increased risk for heart attacks and strokes, not to
mention breast cancer? Clearly every Doctor should know by now that HRT
is not the miracle cure it was once thought to be.
Last year the Journal of the American Medical Association reported the
results from a study, involving 16,000 healthy women aged 50 and over.
The study was scheduled to run for eight years but was stopped after
five because HRT was found to be causing an increase in heart attacks,
strokes and breast cancer. This caused a shockwave throughout the
medical community.
In May of this year, The New England Journal of Medicine
reported that HRT "had no clinically meaningful benefits on
health-related quality of life"
Also in May this year, a study published in the Journal of the American
Medical Association found that taking HRT doubles an older woman's risk
of dementia, including, Alzheimer's disease
For those of us who have spend years developing, promoting and using
alternate methods to HRT the new research vindicates what we have been
saying for all along.
That should be the end of it, right? RIGHT?
Far from it, Doctors all over the Country are still over prescribing HRT.
Hormone replacement therapy is one of the biggest-selling drugs of all
time. HRT still has revenues in the billions.
You need to take control of your own destiny.
If your Doctor is telling you need to go on HRT or you are currently on
HRT then you need to consult with your Doctor right away and ask him if
the new research changes his recommended treatment for you. Ask him if
he has kept up on the latest research in natural hormone replacement
therapy as a safe alternate to HRT. Get a second opinion.
Don’t be the next victim.
Already some of the drug makers providing the drugs for HRT are involved
in HRT related class actions suits, already many major medical centers
are rethinking HRT. It will not get better, it will only get worse.
Educate yourself. Don’t be the next victim.
Dr Randolph is a Board Certified practicing gynecologist and a leader in
natural hormone replacement for women. His web site
http://www.saferhormones.com
provides many HRT related resources as will as other natural health
information and products
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