The Real Name for Natural
Progesterone is Diosgenin.
This is what Dr. Helen Pensanti,
M.D., a pioneer in prescribing alternatives to harmful, cancer causing
synthetic hormone replacement therapy (HRT) has to say.
"There is a little "bruhaha" going on between the
pharmaceutical industry and those of us that are selling natural
progesterone creams. I want to set the record straight so that there
will be no confusion in your minds.
Many of you have been following me since the early
days on TBN. Back in 1990, I began telling as many women as I could to
go off of Synthetic Hormones for Menopause because I saw the
"handwriting on the wall" that synthetic hormones were causing cancer,
stroke, heart attacks etc.
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. Well, I am getting ahead of myself.
Let us start with the facts so that you will know the truth.
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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..
(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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Facts About Natural Progesterone Cream:
- 25 BC Mexican Wild Yam is mentioned in the
chinese PEN TSAO CHING as a highly valued herb.
- 14th Century England women used mistletoe
berries (diosgenin) and made a tea of some sort and called it "All
Heal" and used it for various female disorders.
- 18th and 19th centuries was used for menstrual
cramps and other female related disorders.
- In 1936 Japanese scientists extracted Diosgenin
out of the Wild Mexican Yam Plant, began studying it, and eventually
it was turned into "Birth Control Pills."
- 1942 Wyeth Ayerst the maker of Premarin a
synthetic estrogen receives a patent for the product and begins to
market it to M.D.'s as a treatment for the symptoms of Menopause.
- 1966 Robert A.Wilson M.D. writes a very popular
book called "Feminine Forever". Women everywhere read it with
enthusiasm and began to request Premarin from their Physicians because
of the claims that women would not lose the "bloom of youth."
- 1975 Physicians were warned not to give
synthetic estrogens without balancing it with a Progestin after the
NEJM reported a greater risk of endometrial cancer.
- 1986 PEPI Study - Research has shown that women
45 years or older who have at least 75 percent dense tissue on a
mammogram are at elevated risk of developing breast cancer. Reasons
for this are not yet understood.
Studies, including the Post-menopausal Estrogen/Progestin
Interventions (PEPI) trial, show that about one fourth of women who
use hormone replacement therapies (HRT) that include progestin have an
increase in breast density on their mammograms. In the PEPI trial a
smaller number (about eight percent) of women taking estrogen-only
synthetic therapies also had increased breast density.
- 1995 The American Journal of Obstetrics and
Gynecology published an article stating that not only long-term, but
short-term users of Premarin had a 40% percent risk of acquiring
breast cancer!
- In the 1995 Nurses’ Health Study, a study was
done on the increased risk of breast cancer in women taking various
synthetic hormones. It was found that women taking synthetic estrogen
alone had a 36% increased risk; those on synthetic estrogen plus
progestin had a 50% increase; those on progestins alone had a 240%
increased risk of acquiring breast cancer! Women who, at the time of
the study, had been taking estrogen and progestin for 5-10 years had a
45% increased risk. This study is one of the largest done to date.
Also in the Nurses’ Health Study, the older a woman was the higher the
risk. Women between the ages of 60 and 64 who had been taking
synthetic hormones for five years or more had an increased risk of
developing breast cancer by 71%. Studies have shown that within 5
years of discontinuing synthetic hormones, a woman’s risk of breast
cancer returns to normal.
- Feb 13th, 2002 JAMA study of Hormone
Replacement Therapy in Relation to Breast Cancer. Results showed the
longer use of HRT was associated with increased risk of lobular breast
cancer.The incidence of breast cancer, all histologic types combined,
was increased by 60% to 85% in recent long-term users of HRT.
Long-term HRT use was associated with a 50% increase in non lobular
cancer. Their data adds to the growing body of evidence that recent
long-term use of HRT is associated with an increased risk of breast
cancer and that such use may be related particularly to lobular
tumors.
I would also like to add this from Virginia
Hopkin's Healthwatch.
This will explain some of the other nonsense and tricks that are going
on with trying to block us from selling Natural Plant Based Diosgenin
commonly called Natural Progesterone.
"The NTP’s Tenth Report on Carcinogens even
acknowledges that “no adequate human studies of the relationship between
exposure to progesterone and human cancer have been reported.”
Progesterone is a naturally occurring hormone produced by all humans,
unlike most of the chemicals listed in Prop 65, which are not naturally
present in humans.”
I’d like to add that most of the research
originally cited by the NTP to justify adding progesterone to the list
of carcinogens was largely based on synthetic progestins—apparently they
didn’t realize that progesterone and progestins are very different.
Progesterone cream companies that don’t add this label in California
become vulnerable to lawsuits from a particularly nasty group of
attorneys who are using Prop 65 to make millions of dollars. Meanwhile,
there are 799 other chemicals out there, most of which probably do pose
a risk of cancer." Virginia Hopkin's Healthwatch
What is in this Wild Mexican Yam Plant that makes it so attractive?
DIOSGENIN… a plant chemical found in several plant
species.
This Diosgenin is part of a group of chemicals called SAPONINS.
What is so special about DIOSGENIN?
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.
Extract of Wild Mexican Yam is available in many forms including
capsules, creams and gels. They pass easily and quickly through the skin
and therefore topical application in cream form is most often
recommended. Drops and sub-lingual tablets (that dissolve under the
tongue) are also common . Tablets that have to be swallowed are to be
avoided because the active ingredients are broken down in the passage
through digestive system.
So, back when this grass roots movement started,
this DIOSGENIN was commonly called or nick named "natural progesterone".
This went on for years, and using the real word of Diosgenin was lost in
our common language.
When the Pharmaceutical Industry decided to fight
back they came up with a really good plan. "Let's use the law in
California called Proposition 65 to shut down these upstarts 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 PDR.
( Physician's Desk Reference).
Well the truth is we are not selling progesterone per say. We are
selling Diosgenin.
We should never have used the nick name of "Natural Progesterone" from
the beginning. We should have told women the truth. That what we were
giving them was DIOSGENIN. And that is the truth!"
So, in the future we will have Diosgenin on all
our labels for our Bio-Identical Phyto-Progesterone Cremes. 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.
From a blogger:
Over the last couple of years, warnings have
started to appear on jars and tubes of products that contain natural
progesterone stating that the products contain a substance known to
cause cancer. Specifically, they read:
"WARNING: This Product Contains A Chemical Known To The State of
California To Cause Cancer."
This is utter nonsense and is based on bogus
science.
It was actually triggered by the State of California when they
mandated that any product sold in the state that contained natural
progesterone had to contain that warning, and since everyone sells in
California, the warning became ubiquitous. But why the warning in the
first place?
In 2004, the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard
Assessment published the results of a review of studies (human,
animal, and in vitro) that lumped together natural progesterone,
synthetic progestins, and other "progesterone-like" compounds. All of
the data from the studies of all of these compounds were mixed
together, along with data from studies using mainly synthetic
estrogens. This would be equivalent to studying the safety of
acidophilus by lumping together the results of studies on staph,
salmonella, listeria, E. coli, and acidophilus and concluding that
acidophilus was deadly based on those mixed numbers. Absurd!
But it gets even worse. The majority of studies that included
progesterone (either natural or synthetic) involved combinations with
synthetic estrogens, compounds that are known carcinogens. And
finally, none of the studies involved used progesterone in transdermal
crème form. Instead, they involved oral, injected, and suppository
forms of the hormone -- at dosages as much as 10,000 times the
recommended amount.
Requiring a warning label on natural progesterone crèmes based on this
data is embarrassing to the medical community as a whole, and shameful
to the state of California. It isn't worth the time it takes to read
it.
