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The commercially adulterated substances that are used today to create estrogen and progestin products, notwithstanding their poor utilization by the body, are misrepresented to the consumer as the “fountain of youth.” At the same time, the plant-based phytohormones that the body is able to utilize go virtually ignored, having little place in the profit-driven world of drug promotion. What is sad is that misinformation about estrogen is being given to vulnerable women who are most desperately looking for relief.
No mater what “the authorities” say, “Estrogen is a potentially dangerous drug with significant side effects,” warns Dr. Lawrence Riggs of the Mayo Clinic. Nevertheless, the pharmaceutical industry has cultivated a great market among menopausal women by publicizing estrogen as “essential to a woman’s good health and her womanhood” However, as sales have been increasing, so have breast and endometrial cancer.
Estrogen is considered one of our most potent prescription drugs. In The Menopause Industry: How the Medical Establishment Exploits Women, Sandra Coney recounts this sordid tale: “Warnings about the dangers of estrogen had been made sporadically for nearly 30 years. In particular, it was known that estrone, the form of estrogen in Premarin, could be associated with the development of endometrial cancer. As early as 1947,” she discloses, Dr. Saul Gusberg of Columbia University “called the ready use of estrogen ‘promiscuous’ and warned that what was going on was a human experiment.” He had observed too many estrogen users coming in for dilation and curettage (D&C) for abnormal bleeding caused by endometrial overstimulation, as well as documented cancerous and precancerous changes of the uterus.
With time and with more investigation of the serious problems that were occurring, the FDA finally insisted that all prescriptions be accompanied by warnings about the risk of cancer, blood clots, gallbladder disease, and other complications. When this estrogen scare reached the public, sales began to decline. Without a moment to lose, however, the American Pharmaceutical Manufacturers’ Association and the public relations firm for Ayerst Pharmaceutical, Hill and Knowlton, wasted no time in producing sales strategies and an intense promotional campaign. This included articles sent out to magazines (Reader’s Digest, McCall’s, Ladies’ Home Journal, Redbook) and 4,500 suburban newspapers in order to “preserve the identity of estrogen replacement therapy as effective, safe treatment for symptoms of the menopause.”
Those with monied interests were so opposed to the FDA’s plan for packaging the warning inserts that they took legal action, for “patient information would reduce sales of estrogen drugs and, therefore, reduce profits.” Other organizations that joined in opposition were the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the American College of Internal Medicine, and the American Cancer Society. They claimed that “giving patients information violated the physician’s right to control how much information to disclose to patients and threatened medicine’s professional autonomy.” Eventually the U.S. National Women’s Health Network introduced a brief to the court in favor of the FDA, and the FDA won out.
Synthetic HRT remains a booming business. But because of the risks involved with the drugs, a variety of profitable tests, procedures, and drugs is called for along the way-from blood tests, biopsies, and mammogram to hysterectomies, D&cs.., pain relievers, blood pressure medication, diuretics, and frequent doctor visits. And there are as many as 175 different possible treatment combinations to experiment with when bad reactions occur!
Many of us don’t recognize when we may have been given the wrong type of hormone. We are completely dependent upon what our medical doctors advise with respect to trying new formulations that have just come on the market. Yet, year after year, as we fail to get results from medicines developed through costly technology, we can’t help but perceive the undercurrents of greed associated with products that are promoted at the sacrifice of public health. Slowly but surely, we are beginning to think twice about what’s in store for us and are asking more questions that challenge the physician’s monopoly of information.
What the medical establishment calls breakthroughs are often justified in the name of “consumer protection.” However, we need to be mindful and learn as much as we can about what is best for our welfare. I think we should seriously consider the words of John Lee, M.D., over a decade ago concerning this frustrating situation:
The emerging realization that estrogen should never be given unopposed, i.e., without progesterone, due to its risk of developing endometrial carcinoma makes Natural Progesterone a valuable addition in those cases where menopausal symptoms require treatment.... It is amazing to me that, given the extensive supporting medical references presently existing, estrogen without concomitant progesterone is still commonly prescribed.Previously I have discussed the different forms of estrogen. In this section I must reemphasize that two forms of synthetic estrogen, estradiol and estrone, are often prescribed in spite of being potentially tumor forming. “It is believed but not proven that estrone is even more carcinogenic that estradiol,” says Dr. Lima Lee. This is not good news, because orally administered estradiol is mainly converted to estrone in the small bowel. The next time your doctor prescribes these chemical compounds, you might want to ask this question: Why is Premarin, which consists of estrone and estradiol, being prescribed when these hormones have been implicated as potential causes of cancer? A study reported by Graham A. Colditz, M.D. in cancer Causes and Control showed a 59 percent increase in breast cancer risk for women who had used synthetic HRT for over five years, and an additional 35 percent risk for those fifty-five years of age and older. In conjunction with Harvard Medical School, Dr. Colditz extended his study of 121,700 nurses for a total of sixteen years. A later report published in the New England Journal of Medicine(June 15, 1995) concluded with similar figures and noted “a clear, significant increase in risk” associated with standard, long-term synthetic hormone replacement therapy. I have personally witnessed more than one of my friends and colleagues, after twenty or thirty years on various estrogenic substances, undergoing a mastectomy of one breast and another mastectomy two years later, and within about four more years they had died. They were denied a decent quality of life in what should have been their golden years. We must all become more informed so as to avoid a possibly tragic outcome. If you need estrogen for any reason, ask for what may prove to be a safer from, estriol, which we’ll elaborate on later in this chapter and in chapter 5. Even then, try it only after you have investigated other avenues.
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