"Estrogen is estrogen," my sister states matter-of-factly. The voice of authorization have spoken. And I cognize that I cannot convert her otherwise.

Sarah works for a very successful grouping of household doctors in Williamsburg, VA. Steeped in conventional pharmaceutical wisdom, the doctors there do the same error doctors everywhere make: they swear their drugs reps to give them the skinny on the up-to-the-minute drug research. And then they go through that wisdom onto their staff and patients. To believe any differently about this system of information is to be called alternative.

Problem is, those companies execute their ain up-to-the-minute drug research. Data is routinely skewed, and then the Food and Drug Administration sets their postage of blessing on it. Why? Because the Food and Drug Administration have 80% of support from testing drugs.

Perhaps a flimsy struggle of interest, but I digress…

Estrogen is not estrogen. There is no such as thing as a garden assortment hormone.

HRT, internal secretion substitution therapy, utilizes man-made estrogen. The same is true with progesterone. The drugs Prempro and Premarin were the two perpetrators identified in the 2002 Women's Health Enterprise studies. Horses' internal secretions were used as the foundation for these two drugs. (The mode in which these Equus caballuses were used and abused is deplorable, but that's another post)

Although similar, equid internal secretions are not the same as human hormones. Still, drug companies insisted there was no feasible alternative. There was and is an alternative, just not a patented one.

Pharmaceutical companies developed man-made internal secretions so that the drugs could be patented. Their hope was that this flimsy difference, creating man-made hormones, would not do a existent difference in women's bodies.

But, clip have proven otherwise. Escalating grounds of the dangers of hormone replacement therapy persist. And drug companies recite the litany of their safety. But if "estrogen is estrogen," then why is there such as contention over HRT? And why are drug companies lobbying to have got bio-identical hormones removed from the market?

You guessed it; the money tree.

Bio-identical hormone treatment, or BHT, have been around for years. But most practicians are unfamiliar with the treatment. Drug companies have got done a thorough occupation in skewing physicians, and their patients, toward their hazardous line-up of products.

Bio-identical simply intends that the construction of the internal secretion is perfectly indistinguishable to the internal secretion produced in women's bodies. BHT is natural and our organic structures can metabolize the hormones, as they were designed to do. Sounds good so far, doesn't it?

The job is, drug companies can't patent of invention it. So they're on a violent disorder to outlaw it. Again, not able to stem the radioactive dust from WHI's initial study, pharmaceutical companies have got set their ain spin on BHT. With the new Climara patch, companies have got created a patented gluey transdermal internal secretion bringing system. The oestrogen cannot be patented because it is indistinguishable to the human estradiol.

And there's the rub. Isn't the marketplace large adequate for both products, bio-identical and Climara? Evidently not. The drug industry is hell-bent on outlawing BHT.

Like a coddled child, they don't desire to share. The malarkey posted by drug companies that there is no option to man-made internal secretion treatment is ludicrous. Especially when it falls on the heels of their introduction to Climara. A despairing attempt, at best, to go on their throttlehold over our health, drug companies are waging all out warfare for control over our bodies.

We all demand a safety blanket. We desire to believe our docs have got our best involvements at heart. I desire to believe that. I love my doctor. But when it come ups to drug counseling, I make my homework.

I also confer with my Naturopathic Doctor. If there is any manner I can debar the usage of prescription drugs, I take that issue first. If not, I research the risks.

I'd love to believe in a magic pill. But the lone magic here is the monolithic attempt by drug companies to draw the woolen over our eyes. Hence, my sister's naïve statement about internal secretion replacement.

The underside line is: oestrogen is not estrogen. And it's your occupation to inquiry everything, including this article. Find the replies you can dwell with. And remember, money only turns on pharmaceutical trees.