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NEW!! NEW!!! BIG DRUG COMPANIES USING THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY COMPETITION FROM NATURAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPIES!!!
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..
This is an attempt to force women into taking the 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.
From now on, what was called natural progesterone will
be called by its biotanically correct name - Diosgenin. We doubt this will
keep the government from going after small companies such as ours when the
multi-billion dollar drug companies, their high priced lawyers and lobbyists
are determined to destroy us. However, we will keep offering our healthy
alternative as long as we are able.
Approximately 20 years ago, open minded, progressive medical doctors began
to see the dangers of synthetic hormones like Premarin and Prempro. They
began prescribing natural, bioidentical hormone replacement therapies like
Return to Eden to their patients.This grass roots movement of switching off
of synthetic hormones and starting "natural progesterone" caused the
pharmaceutical industry to lose billions of dollars. All has been well until
recently when the Women's Health Initiative confirmed that the
pharmaceutical synthetic hormones caused cancer, heart disease and other
grave health problems. The drug company profits fell like a stone.
So, back when this grass roots movement started, it was easier to call
DIOSGENIN "natural progesterone". This went on for years, and using the real
word of Diosgenin was forgotten.
Diosgenin is a plant chemical found in several plant species, and is part of
a group of chemicals called SAPONINS. Diosgenin is bio-identical to the
progesterone that is secreted by a healthy female ovary. It is a plant
version of the human female version of progesterone. Our diosgenin is
processed to USP standards.
When the Pharmaceutical Industry decided to fight back they decided to use
the law in California called Proposition 65 to shut down companies trying to
sell "Natural Progesterone." They are using a law that is forcing anyone
using the name Progesterone to state that it is cancer causing as per the
Physician's Desk Reference.
What is so terribly dishonest and reprehensible is that they are using many
of the same studies that proved their products were harmful to destroy
competition from non-harmful natural hormone suppliers just because the word
"progesterone" was used.
The truth is we are not selling progesterone per say. We are selling
Diosgenin.
The nick name of "Natural Progesterone" should never have been used from the
beginning. Now is time, due to the campaign by the multi-billion dollar drug
companies to squash all competition, to call this wonderful safe, effective
substance by its real name - DIOSGENIN.
In the future we will have Diosgenin on all our labels for our natural,
safe, artificial chemical free Return to Eden USP Progesterone Creme. Just
remember that it's nick name or common name is Natural Progesterone, but, we
will not be allowed to call it that any longer. Diosgenin is also known as
Natural Progesterone.
Here is last years' article for you again.
ACTION
ALERT!!!! BIOIDENTICAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY UNDER ATTACK BY MAKER OF
PREMARIN AND PREMPRO!
As I began researching information for the August 2006 newsletter, I noticed
something strange. When I did a Google search for "menopause news," as I
usually do each month in preparation to write the newsletter, all that came
up were articles from the most trusted news sources (or what I call the
dominant media) about how dangerous compounded natural hormone replacement
therapy was or how ineffective natural treatments were. Normally, there is
at least one article, if not many more, about the most current studies
highlighting the dangers of synthetic HRT using Premarin, Prempro or other
synthetic menopause pharmaceuticals.
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Diosgenin cream ingredients | Benefits diosgenin cream | How to use diosgenin cream. | Return to Eden Diosgenin (nicknamed Progesterone) Cream. Sorry - Product Discontinued NEW!! NEW!!! BIG DRUG COMPANIES USING THE FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION IN AN ATTEMPT TO DESTROY COMPETITION FROM NATURAL HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPIES!!! 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.. 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!) Return to Eden Chemical Preservative FREE Natural Progesterone Cream.
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Of course, I had to take the article on the dangers of compounded
pharmaceuticals on face value, since they are effective and could react with
other substances. Then I went on to read the article from the New York Times
News Service dated August 2, 2006 and found that the headline, " Alternate
menopause treatments fail to prove their effectiveness," was nothing less
than misleading.
This is one of the paragraphs in the story, emphasis mine. "Three of four
trials of the herb black cohosh, a common alternative treatment for
menopausal symptoms, showed no improvement, but the studies suffered
from poor methodology. The fourth, judged "fair" by the researchers,
enrolled 304 women, half of whom took black cohosh and the other half a
placebo for 12 weeks. Compared with placebo, there was greater improvement
in the treatment group as measured by the participants' own reports. Dr.
Anne Nedrow, the lead author of the review, said the study "did show some
benefits, but we had to balance it with studies that showed none." "
The article continued with this quote after paragraph after paragraph touted
how alternative medicines don't work, in spite of contrary studies mostly in
Europe: "Still, Nedrow said, "We don't have proof these therapies
don't work, either, because the studies are not of the length,
quality and size that you can draw those conclusions." Nedrow is an
assistant professor of medicine at the Oregon Health and Science
University."
The headline should have read, "Researchers fail to prove alternative
menopause treatments are ineffective." Don't you agree?
Then I stumbled upon an article in a great magazine that started arriving
unsolicited in my mailbox last month - "Life Extension." The articles in
this magazine are some of the best documented and thorough on the particular
subject I ever have read in a magazine.
Lo and behold, the multi-billion-dollar drug giant, Wyeth Pharmaceuticals -
the manufacturer of the hormone replacement drugs Premarin and Prempro -
filed a "citizen's petition" with the FDA, asking the agency to deny
consumers access to compounded biodentical hormones. Biodentical hormone
replacement therapy has soared in popularity in the last four years since a
landmark government study (click here
for that study) found that Premarin and Prempro pose grave health risks
to menopausal women. All the negative press about biodentical hormones
started to make sense.
In addition, as a result of the government study, Wyeth's revenues for these
insidious drugs fell by more than 57% in three years from $2.07 billion in
2003 to $800 million in 2004. But hey, $800 million is still a lot to
promote your product as bad as it may be. Again, the negative press is
making sense.
Wyeth's petition contained some of the same phrases used in the one article
about bioidentical hormone replacement therapy drugs endangering public
health. How are women being endangered by using a substance which is
bioidentical (the same as our own hormones) with no side effects as opposed
to synthetic hormones made from horse urine which does have very bad side
effects? According to Wyeth, they are being endangered because the warning
labels Wyeth is required to post on boxes of their synthetic HRT products
isn't required for bioidentical hormones.
There's a little more including a demand by Wyeth that this warning label be
mailed to anyone who has prescribed bioidentical hormones.
Wyeth's petition requests that the FDA seize the good hormone products or
legally prevent them from being manufactured if the warning label isn't
included, and that the FDA mandate that biodentical hormones can't be
prescribed unless Premarin, Prempro and their other products can be proven
not to work for a patient. (Go back and read how bad these products are
again.)
Incredibly, the petition was endorsed by 11 non-profit health organizations
with financial or professional ties to Wyeth. These groups include: North
American Menopause Society; National Black Women's Health Project; National
Association of Nurse Practitioners in Women's Health; and Society for
Women's Health Research.
What can you do immediately? You can take action against the Wyeth petition
in just seconds by visiting the website of the International Academy of
Compounding Pharmacists (www.iacprx.org) Your comments will be immediately
forwarded via email to the FDA's acting commissioner. There is a "BHRT is
Under Attack - Take Action Now" box to click on with a form letter you can
personalize if you wish.
I just sent my letter, and it only took a few minutes. Do it now. Don't put
it off until later.
For the full Life Extension article on banning compounded bioidentical hormones, click here.