FAQ's

Why doesn’t my family doctor or gynecologist
prescribe these natural hormones?
The naked truth is that they simply have not been trained in the area of natural hormones. I went to medical school so I can tell you that, as doctors, we receive about 4 hours of training in hormones. The training that we do receive in female hormones is exclusively devoted to prescription synthetic drug hormone therapy. Consequently, when we get out in the real world of practicing medicine, doctors prescribe what they have been taught in med school and residency. It is very likely that your family doctor and gynecologist have absolutely no training in natural bio-identical hormones and therefore do not prescribe them.

Do the results of the women’s health initiative study
apply to natural bio-identical hormones?
Absolutely not. The WHI study showed an increased risk for breast cancer with synthetic drug hormones. We know from more than 20 years experience in the U.S. and 60 years experience in Europe, that when natural bio-identical hormones are prescribed and properly balanced by a knowledgeable physician, they actually reduce your risk for developing breast cancer.

Have there been any medical studies done after the Women’s Health Initiative? What is the latest word on hormone therapy?
Hormone therapy given at the start of menopause and continued long term is beneficial, not harmful, according to a medical study published in the March 2005 issue of the Fertility and Sterility medical journal. The study was authored by Lawrence Phillips, M.D., a professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology at the Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta and Robert Langer, M.D., a professor of family and preventive medicine at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine. The results of the study suggest that hormone therapy started at the time of menopause and then continued long term should produce a decrease in coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and dementia over time.

Dr. Phillips states that before hormone therapy was available, a woman was told, “Because you’re a woman, you’re at less risk for coronary artery disease and strokes.” The gift of hormones seems to vanish at menopause. As the years following menopause go by, whatever protection you may have had seems to disappear.

With regard to progesterone (which should always be given to protect the breasts), Dr. Phillips suggests that natural progesterone is probably a better idea than synthetic prescription progesterone (Provera). So what response has Dr. Phillips had from medical professionals with regard to his study and his recommendations? He tells us that many other doctors – especially endocrinologists and gynecologists have said, “This makes terrific sense”.