Cynthia Gorney, a beautiful writer who started taking estrogen because she thought she was going crazy as a result of hormonal upheaval, writes at length in the New York Times magazine about her quest to learn if the benefits of estrogen replacement outweigh the risks.
Gorney learned, she says, that at one point women on hormones were having more heart trouble than their
placebo-taking counterparts…,their
risk for stroke went up, their risk for blood clots
went up, their risk for breast cancer increased by 24 percent. Yet Gorney kept taking her estrogen. It gets better. Read The Estrogen Dilemma in the New York Times magazine.
The PROBLEM with hormone replacement discussions is that Pharmaceutical companies do NOT want consumers to know about bio-identicals. Bio-identical estradiol/estriol plus progesterone is protective: bones, brain, skin, heart, breasts, and more. Women are scared because of half truths.
Kim Crawford,M.D./Anti-Aging Mind,Body,Skin Care
http://kimcrawfordmd.com
What I don’t like is that women that belong to an HMO,can’t get the bio-identicals,and can’t afford to go outside of their health care plan!!! I have asked my doctors several times,and recieved the same answer”WE DON’T OFFER THIS TO OUT PATIENTS”.
Hi Pat, you are so right about being ticked off about this. WHY don’t they offer it? Most likely because they are not educated. Many health plans are now paying for bio-identicals. Perhaps you can ask if there is a doctor in your network who is savvy; doctors would rather say “we don’t offer it†rather than I DONâ€ÂT KNOW ENOUGH ABOUT IT. Good luck to you!
DrKim
Kim Crawford,M.D./Anti-Aging Mind,Body,Skin Care
http://kimcrawfordmd.com
Ladies just wanted to let you know that the hormone replacement that is being pushed on us is made from horse urine. The mares are forced to stand in a narrow stall with a catheter to catch all the urine the entire time of their pregnancy. They are not given as much water as they need so that the urine is more concentrated. When the foals are born they may stay with their mother for 2 maybe 3 months and then they are shipped off to slaughter as the mother is being bred again to to start the process all over. Any hormone replacement with the word MARE in it is horse urine. It’s no wonder we have such problems with taking it. Please help put a stop to this. Doctors let us take bio-identicals. Bet a man wouldn’t swallow horse urine.
I began hrt at age 26 and remained on it until I was 65. I am now 74 and in excellent health. I have had no cancer or any type of mental aging that I or my Doctor can tell.