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"Surgery for nearly all regional musculoskeletal pain has earned its place in the historical archives next to tonsillectomies, hysterectomies for retroverted uteruses, radical mastectomies (chapter 6), coronary artery bypass grafts (chapter 2), and other misguided empiricisms. Unfortunately and sadly, surgery for the regional musculoskeletal disorders has yet to be relegated to the archives. To the contrary, it is a booming industry. 10. We do not know what causes particular episodes of regional musculoskeletal pain." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Of all major surgical procedures, the two most common in the United States at the turn of the millennium were both gynecological: Cesarean sections and hysterectomies. Cesarean Section From 1970 to 1991 the number of Cesarean sections (C-sections) performed in the United States increased 350%. By 1995 they accounted for 21% of all births, increasing slightly to 23% in 2000. This means that almost one of four pregnant women is told either that she is incapable of giving birth vaginally, or that to do so would endanger her child and/or herself." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In 1982, carotid endarterectomies were twice as common in Boston than they were in New Haven, but the rates for coronary bypass were the reverse. hysterectomies were more common for New Haven women, but hip replacements were performed at a higher rate in Boston. What accounts for these variations in adjacent towns? It is probably not to be found in the patient population, especially given that Oxford, Cambridge, Boston, and New Haven are communities characterized by populations with academic and medical sophistication." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.) "In 2000, some 633,000 hysterectomies were performed in the United States. The rate, which has not changed recently, is double that of most Western European countries. The most common presenting symptom for a hysterectomy is severe menstrual bleeding. Complications from surgery are common: half of all women develop postsurgical kidney or bladder infections, some of which require additional surgery. Radical hysterectomy (including the ovaries) may result in nerve destruction, leading to the inability to control bladder function." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"In the early 1980s, Jerome Sullivan, a clinical assistant professor of pathology at the University of Florida, noticed that women who had undergone hysterectomies had increased incidence of heart disease. He suggested that if losing blood protected menstruating women, men donating blood might also have similar protection. His findings clashed head-on with the cholesterol-is-the-cause paradigm and only recently have his theories been accepted. Menstruating women produce estrogen, which is heart protective, and most lose a significant amount of iron in the blood each month." - 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.)

"Similarly, women with ovarian hysterectomies are especially prone to bone loss. But bone loss isn't the only problem associated with low testosterone in women. Symptoms of Low Testosterone How do you know if you need testosterone? If your bones and muscles are dwindling, your HDL is low, your sex drive is not what it used to be, you can no longer achieve orgasm, or your self-confidence is low, then you probably need testosterone support. Other symptoms include weight gain, especially around the belly, and failing memory." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Excessive bleeding is typical and can lead to anemia, D&C's, and surgeries for fibroids and cysts. Most hysterectomies are done for such problems, and many could be prevented by simply recognizing the symptoms of hormone imbalance (that is, lack of progesterone to balance estrogen) during perimenopause. Our bodies were not designed erroneously. Our natural progesterone balances our estrogen's effects on our cells—preventing excess clotting and cell growth, in addition to the many effects noted above. Progesterone Confusion Progesterone is perhaps the most misunderstood hormone of all." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Many women come to me too late, when they are hemorrhaging and needing hysterectomies for large fibroids that developed as a result of years of unrecognized progesterone deficiency. Many have undergone biopsies for breast lumps. This is why it's important to recognize your symptoms early during perimenopause and treat underlying progesterone and estrogen deficiency promptly. Symptoms of Low Estrogen The low estrogen symptoms described above can arise at any age. Symptoms usually start when your estradiol level falls too low." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.) "Of the 617,000 women who underwent hysterectomies in 2004,73 percent had both ovaries removed. One-third of all women can expect to have a hysterectomy (removal of the uterus and sometimes one or both ovaries) by the age of sixty. Our uterus is a sex organ and an important support for our bladder and bowels. Even if ovaries are left intact, the blood flow to the ovaries is affected and most women become menopausal nearly four years earlier than expected. Many women who experience uterine orgasms lose that ability after a hysterectomy." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"In fact, some considerable portion of 855 thousand Cesarean-sections and 633 thousand hysterectomies per annum are not medically indicated, and have little if any impact on mortality or even morbidity. Indeed one could argue that such procedures increase human suffering. Similarly we do not question the need for the two most common cardiac surgeries, more than one million insertion of stent or 533 thousand coronary artery bypasses per annum." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"Other research shows that only 10 percent of hysterectomies are warranted. Fifteen percent of hysterectomies are carried out to remove cancerous tumors, and are thus considered necessary. The other 85 percent are due to uterine fibroids, endometriosis, or other causes of pelvic pain and excessive bleeding. Thousands of women every year have a full hysterectomy (including the removal of the ovaries), but have not given their consent prior to the surgery. Only a few of them make use of the law to seek compensation, but money cannot return a woman's uterus, which is symbolic of womanhood." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"It is estimated that 500,000 hysterectomies are performed annually in North America, 90% of which are classified as "elective surgeries."13 This procedure, when combined with removal of the ovaries, immediately triggers menopause.14 Then, in attempts to mitigate and handle this onslaught and resulting changes to the body, synthetic hormones are prescribed. In 2001 alone, one hormone replacement drug, Premarin, prescribed for many hormone related conditions, generated more than two billion dollars in sales." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"Others viewed prostatectomies and hysterectomies as an effective way to protect patients from developing prostate cancer and uterine cancer later in life, a view that happened to be aligned with their financial incentives. More-conservative doctors felt they should take up the knife only when the patient complained of symptoms, and debilitating symptoms at that." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"The twentieth century witnessed epidemics of tonsillectomies, hysterectomies, laminectomies, and the like. Seldom can sci- ence confront such hubris directly and overcome it. Even refutationist science leaves room for doubt. Hubris, particularly hubris that commands wealth, can take advantage of those doubts. Science can inform the debate, and thereby the public. The only solution today is to forewarn those who are still well." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"If you happen to live in a region where there are lots of aggressive gynecologists and obstetricians who are performing too many hysterectomies and C-sections, or where physicians are admitting patients to the intensive care unit unnecessarily or sending them for unneeded CT scans, you risk being subjected to the dangers of too much medicine. "Nothing has changed since our Science paper in 1973," says Wennberg. Nothing, of course, except the fact that American medicine has swelled into a behemoth industry equal in size to the entire economy of Italy." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Only now they could tell it wasn't just tonsillectomies, hysterectomies, and prostatectomies that were being used far more in one region than in another. It was CT scans, office visits, cardiac catheterizations. It was blood tests and hospitalizations, back surgery, chest X-rays, and knee replacements. In one part of the country, practically every woman with breast cancer was still getting a mastectomy long after clinical trials had shown that a breast-sparing lumpectomy with radiation was just as effective." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "When several doctors with a particular subspecialty live in a particular region, he says, and they happen to be aggressive, then a lot of unnecessary surgery will be performed, as in Lewiston, Maine, where there were unneeded hysterectomies, and Morrisville, Vermont, where doctors were doing countless tonsillectomies. In other words, he says, the supply of physicians can determine how much surgery is performed, rather than how much surgery patients actually need." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"They are the most common solid pelvic tumors in women and the most common indication for major surgery in women, and they account for approximately one-third of hysterectomies each year.2 According to some studies, in African-American women the incidence of fibroids is three to nine times higher and the fibroids' rate of growth is increased.3,4 You would think for a condition as common as this that we would have a good understanding of the cause and cure. Nevertheless, the cause of fibroids remains poorly understood." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "Except in vaginal hysterectomies, it is possible to leave the cervix, removing the uterine fundus (body) only, which contains the uterine fibroids. There is really no reason to remove either ovaries or cervix to treat the symptoms of fibroids. By leaving rhe cervix, the normal length and sensations of the vagina are maintained. With a vaginal hysterectomy, the entire uterus, including the cervix, is removed. In either case, the decision to leave the ovaries depends on the patient and her doctor." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "From 1994 through 1999, an estimated 3,525,237 hysterectomies were performed among U.S. women aged 15 years or older.4 During this time, the overall hysterectomy rate for U.S. women was 5.5 per 1,000 women. The hysterectomy rates for women living in the South (6.5 per 1,000) is significantly higher than those in the Northeast (4.3) or West (4.8). For women living in the Midwest, it was 5.4 per 1,000. About 55 percent of women who had a hysterectomy had a bilateral oophorectomy (both ovaries removed)." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.) "With new laparoscopic-assisted hysterectomies, ovaries are removed more easily (and this is unfortunate if the ovaries are healthy) and removal of the ovaries has increased significantly, from 20.4 percent in 1994 to 42.5 percent in 1999. When the ovaries are removed, the onset of menopause is immediate. The sudden onset of hot flashes, mood changes, sleep disturbances, and loss of sexual arousal is accompanied by a slower onset of fatigue, headaches, dry skin, bone and joint pain, loss of vaginal lubrication, and painful vaginal sex." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"According to the European Journal of Medical Research, topical honey proved to have positive effects on post-operative wound infections due to gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria17 following Caesarean sections and hysterectomies. "Honey provides a moist healing environment yet prevents bacterial growth even when wounds are heavily infected," notes Dr. Peter Molan of the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. " - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Fifteen percent of hysterectomies are carried out to remove cancerous tumors, and are thus considered necessary. The other 85 percent are due to uterine fibroids, endometriosis, or other causes of pelvic pain and excessive bleeding. Thousands of women every year have a full hysterectomy (including the removal of the ovaries), but have not given their consent prior to the surgery. Only a few of them make use of the law to seek compensation, but money cannot return a woman's uterus, which is symbolic of womanhood. Even from a surgical perspective, a woman has less invasive and traumatic options." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Now we know that only women who have undergone hysterectomies should consider taking unopposed estrogen. By the way, obese women have an increased risk of uterine cancer because body fat is a significant source of peripheral estrogen storage. Eventually, randomized studies were done to assess the effect of estrogen on arterial aging—preventing strokes, heart attacks, and memory loss. The largest and most publicized was the Women's Health Initiative." - Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D., You: Staying Young: The Owner's Manual for Extending Your Warranty (Get the book.)

"In fact, within four months, levels of salt sensitivity doubled for younger women who had hysterectomies with ovary removal, the researchers report. THE STUDY Researchers studied 40 women, who had an average age of 47, who had normal blood pressure and no history of diabetes. All of the women underwent hysterectomy and ovary removal, which induced menopause. The researchers found that the number of women who were sensitive to salt was significantly higher after menopause. Four months after surgery, 21 women (52%) were salt-sensitive compared with just nine women (22." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"My book, The No Hysterectomy Option, was written in response to my frustration at having a technology to help women avoid hysterectomies, but women not knowing about it. Sometimes women need hysterectomies, but often they are told they need them for frivolous reasons. My book is designed to help women understand when it is needed and when other options are available. I always like to say that hysterectomy may be indicated, but it may not be necessary. Our best customer is an informed consumer. "We could avoid hysterectomies in well over 50 percent of the patients now having them." - Gary Null, Get Healthy Now with Gary Null: A Complete Guide to Prevention, Treatment and Healthy living (Get the book.)

"More than 750,000 hysterectomies (the removal of the uterus) are performed in this country every year. hysterectomies are the second most common major operation performed in the United States. (The only major surgery more common is also done only to women —cesarean sections.) About 20 million American women have had their uteruses removed. The percentage of hysterectomies which are truly necessary is a subject of some debate. Stanley West, M.D., a gynecologist and the chief of reproductive endocrinology at St." - John Robbins, Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the True Source of Healing (Get the book.)

"These women had previously undergone hysterectomies, so they did not need progesterone. Estrogen alone is not safe for a woman who still has her uterus since it increases the risk of endometrial cancer. Progestins like Provera protect against this kind of cancer. When added to estrogen, however, they may increase the risk of heart attacks and strokes and possibly breast cancer as well. For some women, progesterone lowers libido and leads to depression." - Joe Graedon, M.S. and Teresa Graedon, Ph.D., Best Choices From the People's Pharmacy (Get the book.)

"UTERINE FIBROIDS Up to 40% of hysterectomies are performed to remove uterine fibroids. Although the cause of these tumors is unknown, recent research has linked them to a genetic mutation. Fibroids are almost always benign and often produce no symptoms. However, fibroids can cause extremely heavy or frequent menstrual flow (sometimes leading to anemia).. .chronic pain.. .bloating.. .pressure on the bladder and other internal organs...infertility. ..and/or abdominal swelling. In these cases, surgery is often the best solution. Procedures to consider... •Myomectomy." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.) "During the past 25 years, advances in gynecologic surgery have caused a steady decline in the number of hysterectomies (removal of the entire uterus) performed in the US. Now: A variety of new surgical techniques are giving women even more options for treating abnormal uterine bleeding and fibroid tumors. ABNORMAL UTERINE BLEEDING This condition typically occurs in women older than age 45. It results from a high level of estrogen that is not balanced by progesterone." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

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