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"Hormone Replacement Therapy I must briefly mention one final breast cancer issue: whether to use hormone replacement therapy (HRT), which increases breast cancer risk. HRT is taken by many women in order to alleviate unpleasant effects of menopause, protect bone health and prevent coronary heart disease.56 However, it is now becoming widely acknowledged that HRT is not as beneficial as once thought, and it may have certain severe side effects. So what are the facts?" - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"His solution was to give women over the age of forty hormone replacement therapy (HRT). The FDA had actually approved HRT back in 1942 to treat the hot flashes, difficulty sleeping, mood swings, and other symptoms that can accompany menopause. Wilson argued that HRT was a near-miracle remedy that could stem a woman's aging process and improve her sex life. By defining a natural process as a disease he helped the pharmaceutical industry convince healthy women that they needed to take a drug every day for the rest of their lives." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "Progesterone is combined with estrogen for hormone replacement therapy to treat hot flashes and depression in postmenopausal women. TESTOSTERONE Several anabolic steroids are used by bodybuilders to artificially build up muscle mass. These drugs are sold over the counter as "pro-hormone" supplements. They are, however, converted into androgens in the body and should be considered such since they have potentially dangerous side effects. The U.S. is the only country in the world where these compounds are not regulated and controlled." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "The Women's Health Initiative (WHI) indeed showed that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) prevented bone loss and reduced the risk of osteoporotic fracture.14 In this controlled trial, however, HRT was found to have unacceptable risks, including increasing the risk of breast, ovarian, and uterine cancer as well as stroke, heart attack, and gallbladder disease. Overall the risks were greater than the benefits.15 (See Chapter 12 for more information on HRT.) Studies have shown modest increases in bone mineral density with soy but as yet have not evaluated its effects on fractures." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "However, this theory was never tested in properly controlled trials until tens of thousands of women were unnecessarily exposed to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the prevention of heart disease. There was also the purported benefit that HRT would make you look better and improve your sex life. However, none of these claims held up to the test of time. The original evidence supporting the claim that HRT prevented heart attacks was based on what are called observational studies. Women who chose to take HRT were compared to those who didn't and were found to have fewer heart attacks." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Estrogen dominance can arise as a result of many factors, including the intake of estrogen-like chemicals via our foods and environment, hormone replacement therapy, drugs such as birth control pills, improper diets, and prolonged stress. Associated health problems that can develop are: weight gain (mostly around the waist), decreased libido, anxiety, depression, lack of mental clarity, and lack of energy. Women can experience difficult menstrual periods, painful breasts, and cyclical mood swings." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.) "The often used allopathic treatment for female hormonal problems is to prescribe synthetic estrogen hormone replacement therapy, hrt, which further increases estrogen dominance. The answer that Dr. Lee arrived at was to treat typical hormone problems with natural progesterone. Estrogen Mimics Other hormone disrupter problems in our society, in addition to synthetic hormones, are xenoestrogens or xenobiotics, which produce estrogen-like activity in the body." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Nonhormonal prescription medications You may be surprised to see the inclusion of conventional hormone replacement therapy in my list of options. Choosing to use hormones, wherher compounded bio-identical or conventional pharmaceutical preparations, is a matter of weighing the benefits and the risks. Hormonal therapies should be utilized in the lowest dose, shortest duration, and safest way possible that meets the goals that have been identified. These issues are addressed in the section on hormones." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"This practice has become a cause for concern by many practitioners. 5. hormone replacement therapy. "Research on the effects of estrogen replacement therapy in the prevention of AD has been very exciting," Dr. Khalsa says. "Hippocampal plasticity and nerve growth factors are apparently estrogen-sensitive. The use of either DHEA or pregnenolone, both neurospecific hormones and precursors to estrogen, makes good clinical sense, because of the lower side effect potential. Both have proved useful in this program at doses of 50 milligrams per day." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Calcium supplementation with and without hormone replacement therapy to prevent postmenopausal bone loss. Ann. Intern. Med. 120, 97-103. 36. Heaney, R. P., Weaver, C. M., and Recker, R. R. (1988). Calcium absorbability from spinach. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 47, 707-709. 37. Spencer, H., Kramer, L., Osis, D., and Norris, C. (1978). Effect of phosphorus on the absorption of calcium and on the calcium balance in man. J Nutr 108, 447-457. 38. Heaney, R. P., and Recker, R. R. (1982). Effects of nitrogen, phosphorus, and caffeine on calcium balance in women. J. Lab. Clin. Med. 99, 46-55. 39. Heaney, R." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"When we think of the brain, we must think of lifestyle because there are things that we can do—exercise, nutrition, supplements, stress reduction, hormone replacement therapy. Don't forget the glands in the brain—the hypothalamus, pituitary, the pineal glands, so important for creating a healing environment in the body so we can regenerate ourselves, have more energy and vitality, even as we get older, rather than going in a spiral of degeneration and waiting for Big Brother to say, 'Hey, take this protease inhibitor." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"In the last 25 years, it has emerged as the most studied of the herbal alternatives to hormone replacement therapy for menopause symptoms. Since the 1980s and up through 2005, numerous studies, including several randomized controlled trials, have been carried out using a standardized extract of black cohosh, with encouraging but mixed results.100-106 In one of the largest studies, 629 women with menopausal complaints received a liquid standardized extract of black cohosh at 40 drops twice per day for six to eight weeks." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "An 11 percent increase in bone density is greater than that found in studies of calcium or hormone replacement therapy taken either separately or together. However, in most studies on bone density or osteoporosis-related fractures, the benefits of calcium have been observed without magnesium supplementation. A study looking at calcium absorption found no benefit on calcium absorption in postmenopausal women taking magnesium." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"And in a video paid for by Wyeth-Ayerst, the maker of the hormone replacement therapy Prempro, Lauren Hutton boasted she "started looking a lot better" after she began taking the drug. "I can go into a room and pretty much tell who is and who isn't taking estrogen," the supermodel said. The pills, she added, even helped her sex life. With menopause, "you get irritable so you don't feel like doing anything," she said. "You don't even want to go to the movies, much less have sex. But once I got it all worked out, I sometimes go to the movies two or three times a day." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"In young women, especially those in their 20s and 30s, the best approach is most likely to take oral contraceptives (OCs). hormone replacement therapy, whether bio-identical hormones or conventional hormone replacement, could potentially be used in the usual doses for normal-aged menopausal women. However, these doses are considerably lower than the body's normal level in a young reproductive-aged woman and considerably lower than the dose of hormones in oral contraceptives." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"The mixture was dubbed "Hormone Replacement Therapy" (HRT). It was a successful campaign: By 1988, a significant shift in prescription patterns had taken place." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.) "See chapter 16, "Alternatives to hormone replacement therapy.") Evidence from the HERS trial found that combined hormone therapy actually worsened urinary incontinence in older postmenopausal women.15 There is some weak evidence that ERT is associated with increased risk for UI.16 Interestingly, Thorn and his associates found that oxytocin, a drug used to increase contractions during labor, is dose-related to the development of UI; multiple exposures to the drug increased the risk later in life." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.) "Phytoestrogens Control Hot Flashes Asian women complain less of hot flashes than do Western women, and it may be that eating soy products has some effects similar to hormone replacement therapy.5 Most but not all studies have shown that supplementing one's diet with phytoestrogens can help hot flashes and vaginal dryness. A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study of 104 postmenopausal women found that 60 grams of isolated soy protein taken for twelve weeks reduced hot flashes by 45 percent." - National Women's Health Network, The Truth About Hormone Replacement Therapy: How to Break fee from the Medical Myths of Menopause (Get the book.)

"The field of cardiology now stands opposed to hormone replacement therapy, the common medical practice to relieve menopause discomfort until recently. This position followed the 2003 publication in the New England Journal of Medicine with startling data from a major women's study. The data showed that the widely prescribed combination of chemicalized estrogen and progestin (the hormonal drug substitutes) medication may increase the risk of coronary artery disease." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Have you ever taken prescription medications or over-the-counter medications, including hormone replacement therapy or birth control? ? Do you have wall-to-wall carpet in your home or office? ? Do you eat commercial (non-organic) vegetables, fruits, or meat? ? Do you wear clothes that have been dry-cleaned? ? Do you wear synthetic materials (such as polyester)? ? Do you eat processed food or fast food? ? Have you ever smoked or been exposed to second-hand smoke? ? Do you eat in restaurants more than twice weekly? ? Do you use bug spray in your home or have a pest control service? ?" - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Clark was aware, as was I, of the finding published in JAMA almost a year before her cancer had been diagnosed that a woman's risk of breast cancer increases by 8 percent for each year that she takes combined hormone replacement therapy (HRT). Mrs. Clark could not understand why her trusted gynecologist had prescribed HRT 12 years earlier when, with only very mild hot flashes, she had entered menopause. Nor could she understand how her gynecologist could have been so confident that she should remain on the hormones indefinitely." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"The decreased incidence [45] and a delay in the onset [46] of AD among women on hormone replacement therapy following menopause [47] has also contributed to a belief that these agents may play a relevant role in brain function and cognitive decline associated with aging [48]. However, a decline in estrogen or testosterone does not explain why males with Down's syndrome are at significantly higher risk of developing AD-type changes and at an earlier age than their female counterparts [49]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"In the latter part of the twentieth century, dozens of common treatments, including the tonsillectomy, the hysterectomy, the frontal lobotomy the radical mastectomy, arthroscopic knee surgery for arthritis, X-ray screening for lung cancer, proton pump inhibitors for ulcers, hormone replacement therapy for menopause, and high-dose chemotherapy for breast cancer, to name just a few, have ultimately been shown to be unnecessary, ineffective, more dangerous than imagined, or sometimes more deadly than the diseases they were intended to treat." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"But it is not nearly as well known that hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can also help women keep more of their original teeth into their late sixties, seventies and beyond. When more than 500 women in the landmark Framingham Heart Study in Massachusetts were surveyed about their medical habits and dental hygiene, researchers found that those who were on HRT had retained more of their teeth than those who never took hormone supplements after menopause. In addition, the longer the women took HRT, the fewer teeth they lost. Still, HRT is not advised for everyone—ask your doctor about your case." - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, a number of antidepressant medications have actually been proven to arouse suicidal and homicidal tendencies in users, especially among children, teenagers and young adults. hormone replacement therapy has been shown to increase cancer risk. If you still have doubts about the dangers inherent in drugs, I again urge you to scan the Physician's Desk Reference for all the "side" effects of whatever drug interests you. The brainwashing continues to escalate. Today, approximately two-thirds of all advertising expenditures are for drugs." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The two recent meta-analyses of the health outcomes consequent to hrt were by Nelson and colleagues, "Postmenopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy" (2002), and Humphrey and colleagues, "Postmenopausal Hormone Replacement Therapy" (2002). The Writing Group for the Women's Health Initiative published its results shortly thereafter ("Risks and Benefits of Estrogen Plus Progestin in Healthy Postmenopausal Women," 2002). The discussion by Fletcher and Colditz, "Failure of Estrogen Plus Progestin Therapy for Prevention" (2002), followed (from which I garnered the data in table 8.2" - Nortin M. Hadler, The Last Well Person: How to Stay Well Despite the Health-Care System (Get the book.)

"On the basis of such conviction, millions of women around the world began taking hormone replacement therapy for the prevention of heart disease, despite fears that it could potentate hormone-dependent malignancies such as breast cancer. In 2002, the popularity of hormone replacement therapy (HRT) suffered a massive blow when the results of two large-scale clinical trials using estrogen and progestin were published." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"The bad effect of "Hormone Replacement Therapy" (HRT) far outweighs the benefits. Women taking HRT have a significantly higher likelihood of a vast array of other diseases, as well as death, compared with those not taking the medications. HRT use raises the risk of cardiovascular disease by 78%. HRT even raises a woman's chance to develop asthma. One large-scale review of 31 studies on osteoporosis concluded that estrogen (a female sex hormone) didn't have any significant benefit in slowing the onset of osteoporosis. Too bad!" - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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