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Women's Menopause Health Center
February 15, 2006 Newsletter.
Hormone Replacement
Therapy and Lung Cancer Connection.
Recent studies regarding hormone
replacement therapy (HRT), or the new preferred term, menopausal hormone
therapy (MHT), are confusing. Most results now have doctors discouraging
synthetic hormone use or are recommending minimal use, while others
suggest that it is beneficial for certain age groups.
However, according to a January 26, 2006 Rueters Health article, another
recent a study suggests Women who develop lung cancer appear to have
lower survival rates if they have a history of using hormone replacement
therapy (HRT).
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Return to Eden Diosgenin (nicknamed Progesterone) Cream.
Do you remember our newsletter
last year detailing how Wyeth Pharmaceuticals was attempting to stop
compounding pharmacists from prescribing natural progesterone (diosgenin)
after their profits fell by more than 57% from $2.07 billion in 2003 to
$800 million in 2004 (after the WHI study had to be stopped)?
Well, now they have gone after
centers like ours making complaints to the Federal Trade Commission
(FTC). The FTC's position backed by the big pharmaceutical companies is
that Dr. John Lee, M.D.'s studies were not scientific and did not rise to
the standard of FDA and National Institutes of Health studies, and that
our claims about natural progesterone are false, unfair, deceptive,
misleading advertising in violation of the law..
(Please read
what Dr. Helen Pensanti M.D. has to say about this. Read on to how the study
was conducted.)
This is an attempt to force women into taking
unsafe proven cancer causing synthetic hormones using
your tax dollar to harass natural hormone suppliers. We here at the Women's
Menopause Health Center refuse to take away your choice of a healthy
alternative to Premarin, Prempro and the other dangerous drugs. We are
taking a stand against this heavy handed attempt to destroy competition. We
are going to fight for your choice of a healthy way to get through menopause
comfortably and safely.
(Ed. note: This was from our newsletter last year. The
continued harassment by the FTC has caused us to discontinue our wonderful
product. Do not be forced
into taking something that can kill you. You may purchase safe
progesterone cream at your local health food store, or find it a lot less
expensively on line at places like ebay and yahoo stores.
Do not let these heavy handed tactics destroy your health!)
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Dr. Apar Kishor Ganti, from the University of
Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha and colleagues took a look-back at
nearly 500 women diagnosed with lung cancer between January 1994 and
December 1999. The majority -- 86 percent -- had a history of
smoking and 17 percent had taken HRT for at least 6 consecutive
weeks anytime before being diagnosed with lung cancer.
Those researchers reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology,
January 1, 2006, that overall survival was much better in women
without a history of using synthetic hormones, compared with those
who had taken hormone replacement therapy or menopausal hormone
therapy in the past. Additionally, survival rates decreased even
further when a history of smoking existed with a history of
synthetic hormone use.
Further, they found that women who used synthetic menopausal hormone
therapy were younger when diagnosed with lung cancer. The median age
was 63, compared with 68 for women who had used synthetic menopausal
hormone therapy.
The conclusion was that unless post-menopausal symptoms are severe,
and can't be treated by other medications, synthetic hormone
replacement therapy should be avoided.
Why then, given the serious risk to women’s health, do women take
hormone replacement therapy? For many, the simple answer is that
women need relief from hot flashes and other menopause symptoms.
Finding relief from menopause symptoms is not a black-and-white
choice between taking hormone replacement therapy or doing nothing
at all. Women do not need to place themselves in harm’s way to
eliminate hot flashes, mood swings, weight gain, headaches and other
effects of menopause.
The benefits of natural progesterone cream are said to be many:
Improves lipid profile.
Improves blood sugar control.
Improves burn up of body fat.
Natural anti-depressant.
Natural diuretic.
Eliminates hot flashes.
Creates the myelin sheath over nerves.
Gives people more energy.
Helps with sleep disorders.
Normalizes and restores sexual desire.
Promotes youthful skin appearance.
Resists facial hair growth.
Improves blood sugar control.
Promotes youthful skin appearance. (The late diet guru, Dr. Robert
Atkins, M.D. was enthusiastic about natural progesterone cream for
skin care. He endorsed its use because he found it the best wrinkle
eradicator he ever had experienced.)
So with the addition of a regular exercise regimen, healthful diet
with lots of fresh fruits and vegetables, and practical, common sense
remedies for hot flashes and anxiety, menopause can be a nearly
symptom free transition.
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