Talking in circles
New study attempts to dispute the risks associated with synthetic HRT.
It’s hard to make much progress when all you do is talk in circleswhich is precisely what the mainstream has been doing in regard to hormone replacement therapy (HRT) since the Women’s Health Initiative study was called off six years ago.
The study was halted because the researchers discovered that women who were taking a standard mainstream HRT protocol that included the synthetic drugs Premarin and Prempro were at significantly increased risk for heart attack, stroke, and other potentially deadly health complications. And, ever since, the so-called “experts” have been doing their darndest to make us all forget we ever heard anything negative about these drugs (while, at the same time, working even harder to make us afraid of natural forms of HRT, which truly are safe).
The latest attempt at “reassuring” the public that synthetic HRT isn’t the killer it’s been made out to be comes from a group of Danish researchers, who claim that “overall there is no increased risk of heart attacks in current users of HRT compared to women who had never taken it.”
But then, in literally the next breath (or the next paragraph, as the case may be), the article I read about this study turned around and stated that the researchers did “find that in younger women (aged 51-54) who were taking HRT risk of heart attack was about a quarter (24 percent) more than in women who had never taken HRT.”
So, which is it? No increased risk or 24 percent increased risk? Despite what the mainstream would like to believe, you can’t have it both ways.
The Danish researchers argue that administering HRT trandsermally and transmucosally (via the mucous membranes, such as those located in the vaginal area) and taking it in a cyclical fashion that results in a monthly period reduces the risks previously associated with HRT. But, again, in the very next statement, the lead researcher of the study said that their study “produced similar results to the WHI study.”
Enough with the circular reasoning. Dr. Wright has set the record straight about HRT many, many times in Nutrition & Healing, and what he’s always asserted still holds true: Synthetic versions of HRT like Premarin and Prempro don’t belong in women’s bodies.
The only way HRT won’t put you at risk is by using substances that exactly mimic the kinds and quantities of hormones your own body produced on its own prior to menopause. And the only type of HRT that does that is bio-identical HRT (BHRT). To read more about it, Nutrition & Healing subscribers can refer to the Archives portion of www.wrightnewsletter.com by logging on with the username and password listed on page 8 of your most recent issue and entering the term “hormone replacement” into the search field.
Source:
“Hormone replacement therapy and heart attack risk: Danish study provides new information,” ScienceDaily (www.sciencedaily.com), 10/2/08
