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Excerpts from Oprah About Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
Legions of women across America are going about their daily lives feeling out of sorts. "You feel flat and you feel tired, you haven't had a good night's sleep in two years [and you're] just going through the motions, trying to get through the day," Oprah says. "You feel like your life force is being sucked out of you."
Oprah Magazine delves into the root of this problem and possible fixes, and Oprah is taking the discussion even farther. "We're opening a national conversation about hormone replacement therapy," she says. "This is about your hormones being out of whack, and you don't...
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Excerpts from the Book "Ageless" by Suzanne Sommers
Actress Suzanne Somers promotes use of "bioidentical" hormones to combat menopausal hot flashes and the ravages of aging. Bioidentical hormones are products that are chemically identical to what's made in a woman's body. Many of Somers's best-selling books, including her latest, Breakthrough: Eight Steps to Wellness, strongly encourage women to use bioidentical estrogen and progesterone supplements after they hit menopause. Since these are identical to the hormones made by the human body, Somers reasons, they are safe and even beneficial to take well into old age—whereas, she believes, traditional hormone therapies, with slightly different molecular structures, are harmful. She has a cadre of experts to back up her claims and recently touted the antiaging benefits of bioidenticals on the Oprah Winfrey Show...
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Excerpts from the Dr. Phil Show About Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
Six thousand women enter menopause every day, and studies have shown that the fairer sex can experience menopausal and perimenopausal symptoms as early as their 20s and 30s. Dr. Phil’s wife, Robin, author of "What’s Age Got to Do with It?" is on a mission to show the ladies how to embrace life changes with dignity and grace!
Robin says one of the most important chapters in her new book, What’s Age Got to Do with It? is the section on hormones. "I think this chapter applies to women in their 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and on," she says. "A woman does not need to be ‘in menopause’ to check her hormones and...
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Excerpts from the Wall Street Journal About Bio-Identical Hormone Therapy
Mainstream medicine has been given a wake-up call on a matter critical to the health of 65 million women in the U.S. At issue are the options for treatment of menopause symptoms that cause significant health problems for women in mid-life as their bodies produce fewer hormones. It doesn't seem like a complicated problem, given advances in medical science. Yet hormone-replacement therapy has become a textbook example of how special interests, a confused medical establishment, and opportunists can combine to complicate the issue and deny patients access to safe and effective treatments.
Until seven years ago, women going to conventional doctors were prescribed the FDA-approved synthetic hormone Premarin, derived from the urine of pregnant horses...
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